Boumediene Describes Guantanamo Experience: Interrogated For 16 Straight Nights

nytimes.com:

PARIS -- A former Guantánamo detainee, an Algerian given a new home in France, is contending that he was interrogated at the Cuban detention center for 16 straight nights in 2003 -- from midnight until 5 a.m., at least -- and that he was force-fed through a nasal tube for more than two years when he went on a hunger strike.

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Comments

[kimleehan]

03:04 PM on 05/27/2009

It was his own fault, all he had to say was Iraq had WMD's and Al Qaeda was in Iraq, of course I'm being sarcastic now.

[serena1313]

02:48 PM on 05/27/2009

Innocent people have been cruelly tortured for information they did not have. Innocent people are still imprisoned -- some perhaps indefinitely, denied due process. And innocent people have died.

When reporters and news cameras were first allowed (finally) to report and film detainees (at a distance) at Guantanamo one detainee was brought out of a building lying on a stretcher. Perhaps the editor did not catch it and nothing was made of it, however, that was -- at least in my mind -- a sure sign the prisoners were being abused. This was prior to the reports of abuse and torture became public knowledge. So I wasn't surprised once it did become public, but the indifference did.

I think we need to really ask ourselves what defines us. What is the content of our character? Who are we as a people, as Americans and as citizens of the world community?

Either we believe in treating all people, innocent or not, fairly and deserving a modicum of human dignity and decency or we don't, but then we become our own worst enemy -- we are the monster. That is why we cannot be indifferent to the suffering of others at the hand of our government.

[rwext]

02:02 PM on 05/27/2009

Interrogated for 16 straight nights?.... No wonder they hate us....

[sc300nc]

01:03 PM on 05/27/2009

16 nights of questions...Oh my! Poor guy.

[Tommygun264]

02:23 PM on 05/27/2009

Let's put you through it, including the forced feeding through the unsterilized tube shoved into your gut through your nose, then let's see how big you talk. Coward.

[Babysnake]

12:58 PM on 05/27/2009

Cheney needs to me WB'd to see what he knows of this case.

[KCFreedom]

11:48 AM on 05/27/2009

Oh, but those cool ocean breezes at Gitmo must have been wonderful.

[Whinger]

11:32 AM on 05/27/2009

These torturers remind me of the sick perverts who abused children in Ireland, America and other parts of the world, they have the same sadistic common denominator!

[tippydog11]

11:14 AM on 05/27/2009

World News told us also Georgian did not attack first...but world news said Georgian did attacked first...Only till Powell came out and said...Yes... Georgian did attacked first.....on the 5 Sec. of State interview.. Powell then rushed upon with more questions said don't ask me these questions--go ask McCain why?

[RandVictims]

11:10 AM on 05/27/2009

I remember all the 1980s action movie embellishments, anti-Soviet propaganda stories selectively tossed around by the mainstream media and stories about how bad the Soviet Union was....America has since become far worse than even the most outrageous Hollywood fantasies.

I'm sure glad Capitalism won!!!

[abouttime]

11:05 AM on 05/27/2009

America, home of sadists!

[StevenLeeFitzgerald]

11:15 AM on 05/27/2009

And war profiteers!

Steven Lee Fitzgerald

[Lemmy]

11:41 AM on 05/27/2009

And gullible people that believe these poor detainees and hate America. YAWN . . . .

[ChiGuy]

10:57 AM on 05/27/2009

There are about 240 detainees remaining. Only 19 of those meets the criteria for standing trial in a military tribunal.
How many other innocent men were snatched from the streets of their hometown and subjected to vile, inhumane treatment at the hands of the United States or our proxy?

REAL Americans should be very, very, very ashamed.

[gladys46]

11:13 AM on 05/27/2009

As an American, I am ashamed ... ashamed to have been represented against my will by the worst president & his political republican administration the world and this country most probably ever experienced !

We should all say in unison ... NEVER AGAIN !!!

[Cambridge9]

12:09 PM on 05/27/2009

NEVER AGAIN!!!

[sheilaofmiami]

10:56 AM on 05/27/2009

This is why we need to close Gitmo. Rules and laws were broken there. This demands investigation and prosecution. Maybe we sentence those who made Gitmo what it was to Gitmo, with the staff still in place.

We could see what waterboarding brings to light from Past prez Cheney.

[tippydog11]

10:54 AM on 05/27/2009

Why is Senior Interrogator all over the news media 24/7 and his video Alexander Mathews..who says Cheney is wrong? ..Alexander Mathews who dissects Cheney.... lies and distortion on torture..who said torture cost more American soldiers lives...our very own children.

Stating more terrorist when they found out America torture ran in mass into the thousands into Iraq because of the revelation of torture and abuse at Abu Guantanamo Bay... Al Qaida used torture as a recruiting tool--into the masses...Who has kept us safe? And got more info before they tortured and got none after they tortured..would die first.. Abu Musab and Al Zarqawi Alex said got more info before torture, after torture ordered by Cheney got no info...prove--266 times 6 times a day..die first..who has kept us safer?

[KCFreedom]

11:50 AM on 05/27/2009

B-but Sean Hannity and Deferment Dick still say it isn't torture!

[NotMcCain]

10:50 AM on 05/27/2009

It is important to listen to all of these people's stories and not buy the Bush propaganda about Guantanamo, terrorism, etc.

If Gitmo was a prison camp that incarcerated and tortured innocent civilians (or even those who MAY be guilty of something), it needs to be known.

No matter what, it is a blot on our history--far, far worse than the previous transgressions of Manzanar or Andersonville.

Sad. (And, note to our idiotic form VP---Mr. Boumedienne STOPPED cooperating after so much abuse).

[starlady7]

11:21 AM on 05/27/2009

I agree with most of what you said. However, 2 points. The article states that the boy was tortured by the Afgan police, then sent to Gitmo. Second, if you read the history of Andersonville, the conditions and treatment there were far worse than present day, resulting in hundreds of deaths.

[KCFreedom]

11:56 AM on 05/27/2009

History is written by the victors. The Confederacy didn't have the resources to feed & take care of that many prisoners.

The Union Army Camp Douglas in Chicago was at least as bad or worse, and BY DESIGN, inhumane treatment endorsed by Lincoln himself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Douglas_(Chicago)

A very interesting, eye opening, and depressing documentary on Camp Douglas:
"Eighty Acres of Hell"

http://shop.history.com/detail.php?a=75261#details

So we haven't been the good guys for a long time.

[justoverit333]

10:49 AM on 05/27/2009

BushCo has damaged our name. We're
lucky any countries are willing to help us out.

[abouttime]

11:03 AM on 05/27/2009

So let's prosecute him and others responsible!