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Cueball
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posted 23 February 2007 08:25 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Psychiatrist says US terror suspect has Stockholm syndrome

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"He's constantly advocating for the position of the government," said Hagerty, who examined Padilla between February and June 2006 and was called to the witness stand by the defense lawyers.

"He lacks the capacity to assist the counsel in his case," she said. "His reasoning is impaired."



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Cueball
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posted 24 February 2007 09:56 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
They drove Padilla mad!
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posted 24 February 2007 10:42 AM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The Systematic Destruction of Jose Padilla
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Rather than any necessity to control him, Jose Padilla experienced the total isolation that is at the core of the U.S. government's decades-under-development program of psychological torture. According to Padilla's attorneys:

"his interrogations... included hooding, stress positions, assaults, threats of imminent execution and the administration of 'truth serums.'"
...

Why did this psychological torture continue for years on end? Originally one can imagine that they actually thought Padilla had some secrets to reveal. But long before the three and half years were up, they surely must have realized that he had no secrets to reveal. So why continue? One can only speculate.

Were they conducting a barbarous experiment, trying to determine what it would take to destroy his personality? Was it simply brutal punishment for the humiliation experienced by those who ordered this treatment after they realized he was not the big terrorist they had fantasized they had in their power? Did the mechanisms of barbarity just grind ever onward after being set in motion by an administration determined to get the maximum press coverage out of this low-level arrest?



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posted 25 February 2007 10:23 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 

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posted 26 February 2007 10:21 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Many have suffered the same symptoms as Padilla. According to James Yee, former Army Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo, there is an entire section of the prison called Delta Block for detainees who have been reduced to a delusional state. "They would respond to me in a childlike voice, talking complete nonsense. Many of them would loudly sing childish songs, repeating the song over and over." All of Delta Block was on twenty-four-hour suicide watch.

Human Rights Watch has exposed a US-run detention facility near Kabul known as the "prison of darkness" - tiny pitch-black cells, strange blaring sounds. "Plenty lost their minds," one former inmate recalled. "I could hear people knocking their heads against the walls and the doors."


Naomi Klein

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posted 24 March 2007 03:38 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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A US federal judge Friday refused to dismiss terrorism support charges against Jose Padilla, finding that Padilla's 3½ years in custody as an "enemy combatant" did not violate his constitutional rights. US District Judge Marcia Cooke said that the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was not invoked until Padilla was charged with a crime; the years that Padilla was held in a Navy brig did not count because he was not charged until November 2005.
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So your constitutional rights are "on hold" while you are being imprisoned for 3½ years without charge.

See also:
A tale of two cases in US “war on terror”: Jose Padilla and Chiquita Brands

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Two recent cases prosecuted by the US Justice Department involving charges of providing material aid to a foreign terrorist organization have led to startlingly different results for the defendants.

In the first, the accused was seized by federal agents at a US airport, vilified as a mass murderer by the US attorney general in a nationally broadcast press conference and then held in solitary confinement without charges or the right to see a lawyer or have contact with family members for more than three years. During this period, he underwent sensory deprivation and outright torture that, his lawyers argue, left him mentally damaged and incompetent to stand trial....

In the second instance, the individual defendants have never even been named, much less publicly denounced by the attorney general. The sole mention of the ultimate punishment for their crime came in the form of a discreet posting on the Justice Department web site.

The defendants in this second case are part of a major multinational operation and admit to funneling millions of dollars abroad to finance a murderous terrorist organization. Yet they were allowed to reach a pre-trial plea bargain that included as the penalty a fine amounting to 0.55 percent of their annual revenue. The organization that financed the foreign terrorists has boasted publicly that its global operations have not been affected in the slightest.



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posted 24 March 2007 04:04 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks for the update.
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