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Physicians Report on Torture: A Questionable Case

June 21, 2008 - 10:08 am - by Bob Owens
Moe Badderman
2008-06-25 01:02:36

Eleven men imprisoned for a total of nearly twenty years — with no judicial process, either civil or military — does not constitute torture, but even the most primitive knuckle-dragging mouth-breather must recognise injustice if it’s capable of reading.

# Kamal — September 2003 sent to Abu Ghraib,
# tortured until November of 2004,
# picked up again by Iraqi Police January 2005,
# released in October of 2006

That’s 35 months total imprisonment.

# Hafez — Captured November 2003, sent to Abu Ghraib
# for seven months where he was tortured

Seven months.

# Laith — arrested October 2003, sent to Abu Ghraib,
# and released in June 2004

Eight months.

# Yasser — detention at Abu Ghraib after his
# October 2003 arrest, released February 2004

Four months.

# Morad — arrested September 2003,
# released in July 2004

Ten months.

# Rahman — Captured in October 2003,
# released in May 2004

Seven months.

# Amir — arrested in August of 2003 and
# remained imprisoned until January of 2005

Seventeen months.

# Haydar — captured in turn by the Taliban,
# Afghan forces, and US Military in Afghanistan
# in October or November 2001, held in Kandahar
# and Guantanamo Bay until mid-2004

Nineteen or twenty months.

# Adeel — Captured in Pakistan by Pakistani
# soldiers in May 2002, sent to Baghram and
# later to Guantanamo Bay and was released
# in the fall of 2006

Over four years.

# Youssef — Detained on the Pakistani border
# in late 2001 or early 2002, released in
# November 2003

Nearly two years.

# Rasheed — Captured in November 2001,
# released in Fall 2006

Nearly five years.