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~~I asked for GITMO and icecream~~, CIA sent me to be tortured in Afghanistan.

2006-08-18

CIA sent me to be tortured in Afghan prison, says Algerian
The Independent

Testimony by an Algerian national caught up in the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme, held for 16 months in secret prisons and later released without charge, has revealed how he was chained by the wrists and ankles and left hanging from the roof of a torture chamber for hours on end. Laid Saidi said he was rendered by US officials from Tanzania to Afghanistan in May 2003 and kept in a prison outside Kabul for more than a year before being returned to Algeria via Tunisia. In an interview with The New York Times, Mr Saidi, 43, told how he was kept in a cell "not even suitable for animals" and regularly tortured by guards, some of...

Posted by:Besoeker

#12 Some of us advocate execution of anyone of whom it can be proven took terror training in any Islamic jihad base. I would put to death anyone who downloaded terror documents off the internet, in order to advance terror (legimitate researchers would have a defense).

Whatever happened to that "pre-emptive" war doctrine? Governments are placing onus on individuals, when they know who is financing terror and training terrorists, and have the means to do something about it.

As for the "torture" allegations, that's just grist for the propaganda mill. The "Idependent" is a millright operation in that regard.

Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-18 21:30

#11 Did he get the pear? I hope he got the pear. I'll be he told his friends and now they all want the pear too.

Posted by: Iblis 2006-08-18 16:26

#10 Sounds like the secret prisons have been compromised. Better start using the double secret ones.

Posted by: tu3031 2006-08-18 15:14

#9 Sure hope there wasn't any fake menstrual blood, Andy Sullivan will be so upset ...

Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-18 15:10

#8 if he was tortured as he says then a doctor could easily confirm this. Show me the doctors report.

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-08-18 14:12

#7 What, no pictures of the marks left on his body by the torture? Amazing how skilled those Army grunts are!

Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-18 13:52

#6 ...has "revealed" how he was chained by the wrists and ankles and left hanging from the roof of a "torture" chamber for hours on end.

Yeahh, right, and I supposed he's also claiming an encounter with some 'infidel' woman with spiky platinum hair, and wearing a leather outfit. She was supposedly cracking a whip, and he is claiming she had him drugged and said, "I'm your first virgin... come to mama. If you dont talk, there are 71 more waiting for you..."

This whip-cracker allegedly tried to make him confess to being a part some sort of plot...

Posted by: Tell D Truth 2006-08-18 13:49

#5 Damn Clinton for starting that policy!!!

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-08-18 13:44

#4 Please do not answer that question.

Posted by: John McCain 2006-08-18 13:15

#3 If this kind of stuff is actually true, can anybody explain why it is that these guys ever get released to tell the story? Wouldn't really serious torturers finish the job and bury the evidence?

Posted by: Glenmore 2006-08-18 13:09

#2 No pony? Someone's head must roll!

Posted by: Seafarious 2006-08-18 13:07

#1 Makes me just wanna go get Laid.

Posted by: Leonard 2006-08-18 13:05

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