The lawyer for an Iraqi man on trial for the murder of a Jordanian driver in Iraq in 2005 on Wednesday told the State Security Court (SSC) that his client confessed to the crime after authorities threatened him with transfer to the US-run prison at Guantánamo Bay. “My client is innocent of all charges and he made the confessions on Jordan TV after being threatened by the Jordanian authorities to be sent to the Guantánamo Bay detention centre if he did not confess to killing Jordanian driver Khaled Dasouqi,” Lawyer Adel Tarawneh told the court in his 17-page closing statement.“He preferred to confess and be detained in an Arab country than be sent to the prison of the country that occupied his homeland,” Tarawneh added.
| Smart boy. He can go to Abu Ghraib. Since the Iraqis run that now in three months he'll be wishing he'd gone to Gitmo. |