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Reading Rolling Stone Articles Can Get You Tortured, Sent To Gitmo
Newshoggers.com —
... . Here's the kind of thing the US government has previously invoked state secrets to prevent you finding out and which can get you tortured then detained for years at Gitmo: ...
Food writer's online guide to building an H-bomb...the 'evidence' that put this man in Guantanamo
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the instructions after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail. It was this confession that apparently convinced the CIA that they were holding a top Al Qaeda terrorist. But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the offending article called How To Build An H-Bomb was first published in a US satirical magazine and later placed on a series of websites. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138845/Food-wr...
It Could Have Been You
Suburban Guerrilla —
Or me, or anyone else we know:
A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night.
Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail.
It was this confession that apparently convinced the CIA that they were holding a top
Al Qaeda ...
You Can Forget Prosecutions For Torture Orders Now
Newshoggers.com —
... One of those men is Binyam Mohamed, who was illegally kidnapped and had his penis sliced to bits because he read a spoof online about how to make an H-bomb and who is now still held at Gitmo, where he is on hunger-strike, even though he is no longer accused of any crime. He made headlines at the end of last week because two British judges accused the Bush and Obama administrations of ...
You Can Forget Prosecutions For Torture Orders Now
Crooks and Liars —
... One of those men is Binyam Mohamed, who was illegally kidnapped and had his penis sliced to bits because he read a spoof online about how to make an H-bomb and who is now still held at Gitmo, where he is on hunger-strike, even though he is no longer accused of any crime. He made headlines at the end of last week because two British judges accused the Bush and Obama administrations of ...
Dear Obama Administration,
Political Animal —
... occasion, a hot stinging liquid was poured into open wounds on his penis as he was being cut. He was frequently threatened with rape, electrocution and death. He was forced to listen to loud music day and night, placed in a room with open sewage for a month at a time and drugged repeatedly." But surely, someone might say, at least if that someone had spent the last eight years hiding under a rock -- surely a person to whom we did this must be one of the worst of the worst, right? Apparently not : "A British âresidentâ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist ...
Dear Obama Administration,
Obsidian Wings —
... But surely, someone might say, at least if that someone had spent the last eight years hiding under a rock -- surely a person to whom we did this must be one of the worst of the worst, right? Apparently not: ...
Suspect in Torture Case Was Imprisoned For Reading Magazine's H-Bomb Satire
Crooks and Liars —
Mind you, this is the man for whose case the Obama administration is citing the state secrets act. This could be any one of us:
A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night.
Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail.
It was this confession that ...
Obama Punts His First State Secrets Case
Hit & Run —
... Mohamed's lawyers say he was turned over to the CIA and shipped to Guantanamo after admitting to Pakistani officials, while being tortured, that he had visited an Internet article with instructions on "how to build an H-bomb." Except the article was satire. It was written by labor advocate and food writer Barbara Ehrenreich. You can read it ...
Obama Punts His First State Secrets Case
The Agitator —
... Mohamed’s lawyers say he was turned over to the CIA and shipped to Guantanamo after admitting to Pakistani officials, while being tortured, that he had visited an Internet article with instructions on “how to build an H-bomb.” Except the article was satire. It was written by labor advocate and food writer Barbara Ehrenreich. You can read it ...
A Truth Commission Now, War Crime Prosecutions To Follow
Newshoggers.com —
... in hoping to get details of why someone had his penis repeatedly sliced because he once read a satirical article online. Let's get those ...
A Truth Commission Now, War Crime Prosecutions To Follow
Crooks and Liars —
... in hoping to get details of why someone had his penis repeatedly sliced because he once read a satirical article online. Let's get those ...
