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Down Under
Freed Australian tells of torture
2005-02-14
Former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamduh Habib has said he was routinely subjected to torture during his three years in US custody.
"Yeah! Once they cut both my legs off with a miter saw!"
"Really?"
"Well, I got better."
In a paid interview with Australia's Nine Network television station on Sunday, the Egyptian-born Australian national said he was subjected to electric shocks and beatings every day and even threatened with sexual abuse by a trained dog after he was taken to Egypt from Pakistan, where he was arrested in late 2001.
"They called him 'Bowser the Wowser.' Several of the prisoners became pregnant by him!"
While under torture, he said he made a series of false confessions, including that he trained people to hijack aircraft to fly them into the World Trade Centre in New York, and also that he had fought in Chechnya. Habib maintained: "I have been through a lot, I have been harmed for no reason. I am innocent."
Posted by:Fred

#4  How about a goat, Mamdouh? Bet you could've dealt with that, right?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-02-14 9:44:48 AM  

#3  Why is he still alive?
Posted by: jackal   2005-02-14 8:44:26 AM  

#2  "...threatened with sexual abuse by a trained dog..."

That's one mutt who's going to find re-homing tricky when it comes to retirement.

"Affectionate. And intelligent, you say?"
"Very. One of the quickest learners we ever had at Guantanamo."
"But you say he needs 'special precautions'?"
"Er, that's right. I wouldn't advise bending over when he's around. And don't let him use the internet."
Posted by: Bulldog   2005-02-14 7:16:31 AM  

#1  While under torture, he said he made a series of false confessions, including that he trained people to hijack aircraft to fly them into the World Trade Centre in New York, and also that he had fought in Chechnya.

The false charges of torture are a matching set with the false confessions.
Posted by: badanov   2005-02-14 4:05:39 AM  

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