Mark Tran
Wednesday January 3, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Captives at Guantánamo Bay were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves, an FBI report has revealed.
The accounts of mistreatment were contained in FBI documents released yesterday (pdf) as part of a lawsuit involving the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties group.

In the 2004 inquiry, the FBI asked nearly 500 employees who had served at Guantánamo Bay to report possible mistreatment by law enforcement or military personnel. Twenty-six incidents were reported, some of which had emerged in earlier document releases.

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Originally posted by Briguy:
According to some "Iggy", it's really not torture if it doesn't result in permanent grevious bodily harm. Being chained in a single position for 18 hours, swimming in one's one feces and urine? That's soft torture, which (from the moniker) sounds just like laying one's head down in a soft pillow. It's A-OK in the new America. And quite possibly the new Canada. Hooray for us.

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I know, it is sickening how fear and propaganda have brainwashed some people into allowing/tolerating that kind of torture and degradation and to even say; "all is good".

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American activist Cindy Sheehan will join an international delegation traveling to Cuba next week to protest treatment of terrorism suspects five years after the first prisoners arrived at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, organizers said Thursday.

Zohra Zewawi, the mother of a terror suspect still held at the base, will also be in the group protesting outside the U.S.-run prison in southeastern Cuba, peace activist Medea Benjamin said in a release.

"I am traveling all the way from Dubai because my heart is overflowing with grief over the abuse and ongoing detention of my son," Zewawi said in a statement distributed by Benjamin's Global Exchange group of California, a lead organizer of the trip with the U.S. group CODEPINK: Women for Peace.

Zewawi said her son, British citizen Omar Deghayes, had been tortured and blinded in one eye since he was imprisoned in September 2002 and still had not been charged or tried.

Sheehan, 49, of Vacaville, Calif., became an anti-war activist known as the "peace mom" after losing her 24-year-old son Casey in Iraq in April 2004. She has drawn international attention after camping outside President Bush's Texas ranch to protest the war in Iraq, and has been arrested many times for trespassing.

Also planning to travel to Cuba is Asif Iqbal, a former Guantánamo detainee who was freed after no charges were filed. A retired U.S. Army colonel and a constitutional rights attorney will also be in the group.

The 12-member delegation is to arrive Tuesday in Havana, and later travel to the Cuban side of the U.S. base.

The U.S. military still holds about 395 men on suspicion of links to al Qaeda or the Taliban, including about 85 who have been cleared to be released or transferred to other countries. The military says it wants to charge 60 to 80 detainees and bring them to trial.

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Torture! ... And it's happening on the island of Cuba! Who voted for that ?.

[ 06 January 2007: Message edited by: Fidel ]