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Australian Claims Torture in Egypt
2005-01-07
An Australian terror suspect detained in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks alleges he was transferred by U.S. authorities to Egypt, where he says he was tortured with beatings, electric shocks and nearly drowned while being interrogated. Mamdouh Habib, who is being held prisoner by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, made the allegations of mistreatment in court papers filed by his lawyers, who are seeking to prevent the U.S. government from sending him back to Egypt. Habib, a 48-year-old Egyptian-born father of four from Sydney, was arrested near the Afghanistan border three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. His attorneys alleged that the United States had asked Pakistan to send Habib to Egypt, knowing he was likely to be tortured. The affidavit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in November and made public on Wednesday, alleges Habib was subjected to routine beatings and torture while in Egyptian custody and coerced into making confessions that were not true. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Posted by:Fred

#4  What? Soiled panties?
Posted by: Captain America   2005-01-07 2:32:58 PM  

#3  Claims Torture

Isn't this the fifth such headline this week (aka Standing Head)?

Posted by: Raj   2005-01-07 12:42:16 PM  

#2  Looks like the Ghost Jet has a stewardess...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-07 10:20:00 AM  

#1  Want to be that like most of these dummys he was glad to spill his guts to fellow muslims and his words are now coming back to haunt him? On top of that I bet he didn't get a prayer mat, koran and directions to mecca from his egyptian jailers. Th real reason he doesn't want to return.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-07 12:23:39 AM  

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