15 Y/O Canadian Guantanamo Captive: Interrogators Threatened Him with Rape

[babylonsister]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/30809.html

Canadian says interrogators threatened him with rape
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald

* Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008



WASHINGTON — In a fresh document from the Guantánamo war court files, Canadian captive Omar Khadr alleges that he was repeatedly threatened with rape as an interrogation technique in Afghanistan and at U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Much of the partially censored nine-page affidavit, signed by Khadr on Feb. 22, covers old ground already investigated, including allegations of abuse at Guantánamo that emerged in 2005, prompting a Navy criminal investigation.

But the document includes never-before revealed allegations, such as the rape threats and a partially censored description of regaining consciousness after his capture to discover he was being interrogated in an American field hospital in Afghanistan. He was 15.

[Hydra]

1. And who still thinks this is a good idea??

Close it up and shut it down! The war, Guantanamo, the prisons...ALL OF IT!!

[Solly Mack]

2. I sure would like to like America again

but every day the Bush administration (and not just them) isn't held accountable the less there is to like...for me anyway

[uppityperson]

3. This is the one who got shot in the back a couple times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr has picture. I am glad this is coming out, what happened to/with him.

[cbayer]

4. Staggeringly repulsive. nt.

[democrank]

5. I`d say something here about being disgusted

but that wouldn`t really do. Jesus H. Christ. What have we become?

[Elidor]

6. As a society

We have become everything we hate.

[bdamomma]

11. and everything we had believed in is stripped and raped

by this thuggish regime we have, this is shameful, and sickening.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. That poor kid :^( Unbelievable what is going on in the name of the good ol US of A

[magellan]

8. 15 years old. FIFTEEN.

WTF can be said except this is Bush**'s legacy:

Repeated threats of rape against a 15 year old boy.

And Americans defending it as if it were perfectly reasonable.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. If the kid, and he WAS a kid at the time, didn't have a hate on for the USA

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He sure has one now.

And so do his family and friends I suspect.

And this is international news now,

USA is losing its image as a human rights enforcer.

Given the "regimes" the USA has supported in the past,

It's long overdue.

remember



Then they invaded his country, and got him hung.

[Karenina]

10. Surely he has been. But to have ANY CHANCE

to escape the Amerikkkan Gulag hell, he downplays it.

[mod mom]

12. Doesn't this make you sickto your stomach? I went with a much of activists

to talk to Rep Deborah Pryce R-OH just after Abu Ghraib broke. It appalls me that these horrendous acts are still being carried out in our name. I hope those responsible (at the top) will one day face war crimes trials for these atrocities!

[Orsino]

13. Common thugs. Kidnappers.

But "only following orders."

[crimsonblue]

14. Ok this is a capital offense...

Abusing and torturing minors? WTF!!! Fuck you George.