'American torturers told me they would rape my daughter to get confession,'

[Ichingcarpenter]

The last "British" prisoner in Guantanamo has described horrific torture at the hands of US interrogators who allegedly told him they would rape his five-year-old daughter.

Shaker Aamer, 48, has been held in the notorious jail for 13 years without charge after being imprisoned in Afghanistan on suspicion of working with al-Qaeda.

He was born in Saudi Arabia but gained British residency while living in the UK with his wife and four children, who he has not seen for 14 years.

While being held at US military bases at Bagram and Kandahar, Mr Aamer claimed interrogators used his then young daughter in efforts to “break” him.


“One interrogator talked about what he would do to my five-year-old daughter in details that destroyed me,” he said.

“He said ‘They are going to screw her. She will be screaming, ‘Daddy! Daddy'.”


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/american-torturers-told-me-they-would-rape-my-daughter-to-get-confession-claims-britains-last-guantanamo-bay-prisoner-shaker-aamer-10299868.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[CrispyQ]

2. Vile, despicable men. Evil beyond belief.

"I respected and believed they would give me a fair chance because they were Americans. I was happy that I was with Americans because of their human rights.”

[heaven05]

18. Yep you're right

bush the shrub and cheney are.

[napkinz]

3. war criminals ...

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[LeFleur1]

7. Of Course

Every once in awhile...too often...unfit people are elected to government where they can legally carry out their fantasies. They don't have to kidnap young girls/boys, imprison them in rooms and torture them, risking prison sentences if caught. They can carry out their rawest dreams in prisons of their making on people that they deem "have it coming" because they say so. No jury, no judge, only they have the power to threaten, to capture, to hurt, to destroy. According to most in the know there were no results that justified the creative, demonic torture by the US government.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Hey........... we tortured some folks

''We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our value''s............... oh.......... at least the banksters are paying a hefty fine so they can have a nice living while I was forced upon the street

[prayin4rain]

14. We tortured some folks

Oh, how I hate that he said that. I still have a lot of respect for the man, but in many important ways he has been such a huge disappointment.

[Ichingcarpenter]

24. The torture report needs to be released

He won't do it and you know it.

[prayin4rain]

26. I don't see how the U.S. maintains any credibility without prosecuting the torturers.

The whole thing is stomach churning.

[DirkGently]

37. Most tone-deaf thing Obama has said.

To use that -- there is no other word for it -- "folksy" speak on the subject of torture was beyond belief.

[Bonobo]

44. Nailed it with the folksy thing.

It is how it was diminished, whitewashed and minimized.

[n2doc]

13. Convicted War Criminal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026767619

[napkinz]

19. thanks n2doc

I missed that thread.

[Octafish]

4. Only in a fascist police state is GOVERNMENT TORTURE considered normal.

Seeing how few people in public say anything...



...people are too AFRAID TO PROSECUTE THE TRAITORS.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. 'I'm just a ghost in this house

[n2doc]

6. American Exceptionalism

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. yeah...my kids great grand dad died in from torutue

in NAZI concentration camp...because of his political beliefs.... hey at least they are trying to keep them alive now....... so they can torture them for years


great toon.

[heaven05]

20. true

sadly....

[Jefferson23]

9. Who are the terrorists, again? K&R

[libodem]

11. Blackwater

[Jefferson23]

17. The hired help, yes...that is but one.

Bush/Cheney put into motion a terrorizing campaign, one people still pay a price for.

[FairWinds]

12. Few Americans realize that those who do the torturing . .

are also greatly damaged. Soldiers who "do harm" to prisoners
have extraordinarily high rates of PTSD.

So when Americans condone torture, they are also supporting
the mental destruction of their own troops who carry out the dirty work.

[zeemike]

27. Yes but that is only the ones who have a conscious.

the solution is to recruit more sociopaths without the burden of it.

[raouldukelives]

15. "What have we done? Maggie what have we done?" nt

[brett_jv]

36. Should we shout ... should we scream ...

What happened to the post-war dream?

Oh Maggie, Maggie what did we do?

[marym625]

16. beyond words

[gratuitous]

21. Oh, just more lookin' backwards to the past

We're all about lookin' forward to the future! America, fuck yeah!

[Joe Chi Minh]

34. If you don't take stock of the past and learn from it, you have no future.

[Fumesucker]

22. Everyone involved has been prosecuted to the fullest extent of political possibility

So really, shouldn't we just look forward, do we truly need to damage our beautiful minds with this crass emotionality?

We all knew it was going to turn out this way when impeachment was removed from the table.

[spooky3]

23. Mr. Aamer, we apologize to you. N/t

[valerief]

25. Pigs gotta oink and torturers gotta torture. nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

32. In the UK, you sometimes see the rather twee house-name on the front-garden gate: 'Dun Roamin'.

When, during Pinochet's visit to the UK, during the squalid reign of Lady Cardboard, the London hospital he had been treated in heard the depths of depravity his goons had got up to, during the time of terror in Chile, they told him to leave, so he went to stay in a private hospital or nursing home in Sunningdale. The locals called the place, 'Dun Torturin''

[valerief]

33. How apt! nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

28. WTF!? This is what the APA has been doing!? How do people become so screwed up that they

would do these acts of evil? Isn't that what the APA is supposed to be doing, figuring out how to fix fucked up people, instead of fucking up people even worse!!??

We live in the era of the bush: mean, cruel, criminal, genocidal, thieving. Please, let this nightmare end!

[99Forever]

29. Move along... Move along.....

....we're looking forward, so just let it go.

[Rex]

30. And the war crimes just keep on rolling in, year after year.

[The CCC]

31. 'American torturers told me they would rape my daughter to get confession,'

I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. Obama
SEE

[Ichingcarpenter]

35. Houston..... we have a problem....In a New York minute skip to what's important..

on this planet.... On things that words can''t describe

Sure you know torture and fear having been a way to maintain control over humanity. But their is something even deeper and more hidden behind this part of man's inhumanity to man. This is not

Good things the torturers didn't mention the C word.

[Fairgo]

42. we've all got b**** on our hands

What asterisky word shall we assign Americans who seem preoccupied with anal rape? What shall we call our leaders who sponsored it, and those who condoned it, even now soft sell it's dismissal. What shall we call ourselves, who sponsored these leaders and defend them with our silence? Some new and nasty invective that insults us to the core, because that's what we deserve. We need a neologistic Pederasterix that captures how the world sees us now. We are moral punchline. Ask a Pom to fill in the blanks, Bloody Ameri****s. We all deserved to be banned from Polite civilisation until we can demonstrate that we know what democ**** means.

[LittleBlue]

38. So ashamed to be American reading this

Atrocities were done in our names, with our money.

Most upsetting part is we'll never bring the war criminals to justice

[Orrex]

39. Winning the hearts and minds.

[riderinthestorm]

40. .

[napkinz]

41. K&R

[whatchamacallit]

43. Maybe Clint Eastwood can make a movie about them n/t

[grahamhgreen]

45. I wonder who they live next to now?

[oberliner]

46. Why does everyone assume Shaker Aamer is telling the truth here?

Is it not possible that he is full of crap?

[JonLP24]

48. Its possible

That's the thing about torture is it takes place in dark rooms with no recorders & cameras but whether they said that or not it is very likely he was tortured and is held without charges and no trial.

[Scuba]

47. Now, now, don't be sanctimonious. These were just patriots with a lot of pressure.

[spanone]

49. the cheney crew. i'm surprised it wasn't dick himself telling him this.

ain't we a proud nation!