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Khadr 'scared' of jail rape threat
[Al Jazeera] A young Canadian held in Guantanamo Bay has spoken about his fears after his US captors threatened him with gang rape and death while quizzing him over his suspected involvement with al-Qaeda.Omar Baby FaceKhadr told a US military tribunal, which is due to sentence him after he admitted killing an US soldier in Afghanistan, that his interrogators told him about another prisoner who had been transferred to a facility that held "big black guys" because he had lied to authorities. "They caught him in the shower ... they raped him ... We think he ended up dying," Khadr quoted the interrogators as telling him shortly after he was captured. "I know it does not change what I did, but I hope you will think about it when you punish me," Khadr said. "This story scared me very much, and made me cry." In April, an interrogator who testified under oath admitted doing exactly what Khadr alleges - using indirect threats of gang rape and murder while questioning him at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. The interrogator who admitted making up the threat, Joshua Claus, was later court-martialed for abusing prisoners at Bagram, including one who died. Posted by: Fred 2010-10-31 |
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