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Mali jihadists say they've been tortured by military in custody
 [CTVNEWS.CA] Three suspected jihadists tossed in the slammerPlease don't kill me! in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding. Oh, noze! Not waterboarding helpless Islamic brutes! The three are being held in an earthen cell in what remains of the military camp in the town, which was freed this week by French and Malian soldiers after nearly 10 months under radical Islamist rule. And what were the poor inoffensive Islamic brutes doing during that ten months? Their allegations came as French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... prepared to fly to Mali on Saturday, nearly four weeks after the French-led operation began in the vast West African country. I'm not too sure what it has to do with M. Hollande getting back on his airplane and flying away. The three suspects, who were tied together with a turban Oh, I do like that... and one handcuff, all acknowledged to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named having been members of the al-Qaeda-linked group known as Ansar Dine, or Defenders of the Faith. That would be the Tuareg-run collection of Salafist sadists, not MUJAO or AQIM, which were more international in scope. "To force me to talk they poured 40 litres (85 pints) of water in my mouth and over my nostrils which made it so that I could not breathe anymore. For a moment I thought I was even going to die," said one of the men, The heart [belch!] bleeds. Tums, anyone? who gave his name as Ali Guindo and said he was from a village near the central Malian town of Niono. "I always wanted to lord it over my neighbors, ever since I was a child. Then, suddenly, in the space of a fortnight, I read the Koran from cover to cover and then a couple volumes of the Marquis de Sade. For the first time my life had meaning." "I sleep in the cold and every night they come pour freezing water over me. " What'd you do during the Salafist occupation, Ali Guindo? All three prisoners described similar treatment. Their account could not be independently verified. "And then the Frenchies chopped my head off with a big machine!" Soldiers holding the three asked news hounds to leave after initially allowing journalists to speak with them. "Hey, Ali Guindo! Guess what you're gonna get once the reporters are outta sight!" Army Col. Mamary Camara ... who has kept abreast of the situation... told news hounds that the three were arrested by Malian forces in the town of Lere. He said one of the men was from Libya and was caught wearing a foreign military uniform. Perhaps most of him could be shipped back to General Delivery, Benghazi? The Libyan jihadist was visibly frightened, We mustn't frighten the poor Islamic brutes! crouching in a corner of his cell. He gave the AP contradictory information about his background, first saying he was born in a Malian village but of Libyan descent. Later, he said he was from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... but has lived for years in Mali. But calling him a liar would be a human rights violation or something. He initially denied being part of Ansar Dine "No, no! Certainly not!" but later confirmed that he belonged to the movement though he denied having an important role. "I only joined the party to make business contacts!" The Malian military said that when he was arrested he was wearing a watch with a memory card inside that they said was used to communicate with other foreign jihadists. Ahah! A two-way wrist radio! The allegations of torture came ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... and How many reports did they issue on Ansar Dine, MUJAO, and AQIM in the past ten months? Anyone? Bueller? Both groups said they had documented cases of Malian soldiers killing suspected Islamist supporters in Sevare on the eve of the French-led intervention. Human Rights Watch cited at least 13 killings, while Amnesty said the number could be two dozen. Human Rights Watch said the witnesses described seeing soldiers at a bus station in Sevare interrogate passengers suspected of links to beturbanned goon groups. Those without proper identification were taken away, the witnesses said. "Before the soldiers marched them off, many of the locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! men frantically tried to find someone in the crowd at the bus station who could vouch for them and verify their identity," the HRW report said. "They were driven or marched to a nearby field, where they were shot and their bodies dumped into one of four wells." The News Agency that Dare Not be Named had earlier reported killings of civilians by the Malian army in Sevare, with bodies dumped into a well. The Malian government has promised to investigate allegations of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses by its soldiers. Friday's reports also alleged abuses by the Islamists. Human Rights Watch said beturbanned fascisti had killed at least seven Malian soldiers. "One begged for his life saying, 'Please, in the name of God.' But they held him down and slit his throat," a witness told HRW. "Two days later, as we picked up the dead soldiers to bury them, the Islamists saw that five of them were still living. Most were gravely maimed, but they were still breathing and should have been given a chance to live. Instead the Islamists killed them -- one after the other." Posted by: Fred 2013-02-02 |
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