Muhammad Saad Iqbal, from Pakistan, was held in U.S. custody for six years, which included being sent to Egypt to be tortured, even though U.S. officials decided after the first two days that he wasn’t a threat, the New York Times reported. Iqbal was never charged with a crime and was finally released last August after spending five years in the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Iqbal, who plans to sue the U.S. government, claims that when he was in Egypt he was beaten, covered with a hood, given drugs and subjected to electric shocks.
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Just makes ya wanna sing a chorus of God Bless America don’t it?
sarcasm off
Well, Jay, at least Bush kept us safe from another attack. Cough, cough… which was well worth another 4 years of his legacy.
Life is tough. Sorry, Muslim’s are not to be trusted. Death to the Yankee.
150+ countries are under treaty (and moral) obligations to investigate and prosecute torture cases… it will be a sad day when some hapless Bush official takes his family to vacation in Spain or Bahamas and is snatched up for possible human rights violations prosecution.
Of course! Sue the United States for beatings received in Egypt.
“Please, don’t beat me!” He yells to egyptian floggers with US dollar signs in his eyes.
Probably got some good confessions out of him, in any event.
RFL needs a little renditioning, himself.
It won’t be a sad day when bush is snatched up, but a glorious day.
What will the cons do without their patriarch bush to protect them from evil terrorist?
Bush must be doing good stuff, notice we haven’t had code orange alerts for yrs., ever since the public got tired of them?
“RFL needs a little renditioning, himself.”
-Phantom
Somebody please give Phantom an dictionary so that he can use words that have meaning in the English language.
“The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above.
Suggestions for renditioning:”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/renditioning
I guess the dude shouldn’t have bragged that he knew how to make ’shoe bombs.’
Besides, if he had a back condition, he probably received medical treatment, good quarters and good food at Guantanamo. Better than he would anywhere else.
“Regular
Posted January 12, 2009 at 11:10 am | Permalink
I guess the dude shouldn’t have bragged that he knew how to make ’shoe bombs.’”
Knowledge does not make one a terrorist.
I know how to remove an appendix but it does not make me a surgeon.
“….when he was in Egypt he was beaten, covered with a hood, given drugs and subjected to electric shocks.”
But of course he was never tortured.
This is a bush subject, one is free to take liberties with the English language.
But it is the “SODDiT” it was not the U.S. that tortured him it was “Some Other Dude Did iT”.
After all we told the Egyptians was we did not want to hear about them torturing anyone! That should have been good enough to stop them from torturing the people we sent them. That’s kind of the problem with torturing someone for information. If they are the wrong people it makes you the one whom is the bad man!
Oh well it is the past and we can not live in the past and we should just forget the past. Oh wait a minute, there is a saying about those who forget the past. What was it again?
If I hire a hit man to kill someone I am as guilty as he is. The US ’sub-contracted’ torture to other parties who did it at US direction.
The Geneva Convention specifically prohibits transferring a prisoner to a non-signatory state for such purposes.
“Besides, if he had a back condition, he probably received medical treatment, good quarters and good food at Guantanamo. Better than he would anywhere else.”
Well, why don’t YOU go and live there for awhile, Reg? You seem to think it’s such a great place. Thank God Obama said today that the first thing he plans to do it close it down.