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Torture Log of Detainee 063 – Mohammed al-Qahtani

Admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:04:56 +0000

FD Editor Note: This is the “torture log” from the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani. I urge you to take the time to read all of it. This happened near the beginning of Guantanamo, things became worse after this. Please take the time to read the entire thing. This was 9 years and 7 months ago.

Dangerous Revisionism Over Guantánamo

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:51:19 +0000

Citing dirty evidence to defend dubious detentions By Andy Worthington

On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, the New York Times (11/3/08) published a front-page article headlined “Next President Will Face Test on Detainees,” which attempted to highlight the problems that Barack Obama will face in pursuing his pledge to close the Guantánamo

UPDATE: N.J. lawyer to Congress: Create torture panel

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:34:18 +0000

BY HERB JACKSON

The Bush administration’s detention and treatment of suspected terrorists must be investigated by an independent commission, a former New Jersey attorney general who was the top lawyer on the 9/11 Commission told a Senate committee today.

John Farmer, now in private practice in Chatham, told the

Torture’s Blowback

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:31:28 +0000

By The Editors

A detainee in Guantánamo Bay. (Photo: Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)

Susan Crawford, the senior Pentagon official who dismissed charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Guantánamo detainee, said in a published report on Wednesday that she had concluded that he had been tortured by interrogators. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture.

A US official says released detainees are taking up arms against the US.

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:52:16 +0000

By Simon Montlake A US official says released detainees are taking up arms against the US.

A federal judge has ordered the release of an Al Qaeda suspect held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because of insufficient evidence that the Chadian national was an “enemy combatant.”

The judge told that court that much of the evidence

Cheney Doesn’t Care About Polls, Or Qahtani

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:28:32 +0000

Vice President Cheney gives an exit interview to Jim Lehrer tonight, a transcript of which was just released by the White House. Cheney is asked at length about his current approval rating and whether it makes him sad. It doesn’t. Cheney also responds to today’s Washington Post story in which Susan Crawford alleged that

Guantanamo agents ‘used torture’

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:39:20 +0000

US agents at Guantanamo Bay tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in the 11 September attacks, the official overseeing trials at the camp has said.

Susan Crawford told the Washington Post newspaper that Mohammad al-Qahtani had been left in a “life-threatening condition” after being interrogated.

The Pentagon said their methods were legal in