SubscribeThe man in overall charge was Major General Geoffrey Miller, a slight but self-confident Texan in his late fifties. He was later sent to Iraq to make recommendations on improving intelligence collection at Abu Ghraib prison in the months before it became infamous for the maltreatment of its inmates.
Ten hours after landing in Jordan, Arar said, he was driven to Syria, where interrogators, after a day of threats, “just began beating on me.” They whipped his hands repeatedly with two-inch-thick electrical cables, and kept him in a windowless underground cell that he likened to a grave. “Not even animals could withstand it,” he said. Although he initially tried to assert his innocence, he eventually confessed to anything his tormentors wanted him to say. “You just give up,” he said. “You become like an animal.”Be very proud, children.
A year later, in October, 2003, Arar was released without charges, after the Canadian government took up his cause.
"funny how the usual torture-lovers here are quick to point out that, well, the savage Muslim hordes are generally badder and meaner than the Aryan peoples"
"dhoyt, you are such an [expletive deleted] moron."
"dhoyt, you are just an awful, horrible human being."
"I'd find it funny to read arguments that it's okay to kill and torture people for America and the Christian god"
His wife held the gun in one hand and two bullets in the other.
"Tell me how to use it," she whispered over the phone from the couple's Olympia, Wash., apartment. Of everything Chaplain James Yee had been through -- the arrest, the espionage allegations, the 76 days in solitary confinement -- this was the worst moment.
In May-August 2001, at least six hijackers...flew to Las Vegas, and while there drank alcohol, gambled, went to strip clubs and enjoyed lap dances.
In one instance, she said, agents showed her a symbol found on one of Al Halabi's documents. They insisted it was related to al-Qaida.The problem here, frankly, isn't just in-bred racism against Muslims, but a virulent mix of ignorance, fright and power.
Wega claimed he had been told that by Army Reserve Capt. Jason Orlich, the lead intelligence officer at Camp Delta. Orlich, in turn, said he had learned it from one of the camp's non-Muslim linguists. It was the same linguist who had reported overhearing Chaplain James Yee make subversive statements — a report that had sparked the espionage investigation against Yee.
But it wasn't an al-Qaida symbol at all, Sultan explained to Al Halabi's lawyers. It was a common Muslim saying, written in Arabic in Ottomanic style. The saying, Bism Allah Alrahman Alrahim, meant: "In the name of God, most gracious, most merciful."
It had nothing to do with terrorism.
Given how they ignore the Koran's admonition on killing
Twenty-seven detainees were killed in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan in suspected or confirmed homicide cases between August 2002 and November 2004God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule
'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.'
'Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.' « Older "I haven't been in a concert hall in 4 billion yea... | UNICEF bombs the Smurfs.... Newer »
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