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2008-08-09 Home Front: WoT

Guantanamo inmate petitions rights panel over torture

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Waterboarding causes the illusion of drowning, but there is no pain involved. Mere discomfort is hardly torture.

Gitmo detainies have admitted in documentaries that all they endured was: sleep deprivation, noise affliction, culturally insensitive contacts with the opposite sex, imposed silence, sensory deprivation, and lesser treatment. Only known Taliban/al-Qaeda leaders received harsher methods. Most talked.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-09 03:22|| 2008-08-09 03:22|| Front Page Top

#2 So what Zoid is saying is that the rank and file have experienced nothing more than what thousands of freshmen pledges at frat/sororities have on a yearly basis.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-09 09:36|| 2008-08-09 09:36|| Front Page Top

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