Gitmo Abuse Blamed For Weight Loss
Boo-fucking-hoo!
And that’s all I’m gonna say about that …
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Afghan prisoner suffered significant weight loss and other health problems when the military subjected him to two weeks of sleep deprivation at Guantanamo in 2004, his lawyer said Friday.
lost 10 percent of his body weight and told doctors he was urinating blood after guards subjected him to the sleep deprivation program, Air Force Maj. David Frakt, his Pentagon-appointed lawyer, said, citing records from the prison on a U.S. base in Cuba.
The records, Frakt said, contradict military claims that Jawad suffered no ill effects from what the military called its “frequent flyer” sleep deprivation program.
“It provides substantiation there was not just mental suffering but there were medical side effects,” Frakt told The Associated Press.
Jawad is charged with attempted murder for throwing a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their translator in Afghanistan in December 2002. The lawyer had previously filed a motion asking a military judge to dismiss the charges because of the treatment, which he has labeled torture.
On Friday, he says he filed an additional motion for dismissal because prosecutors failed to provide records of the health effects before a hearing on the issue last month.
U.S. military prosecutors have acknowledged that guards kept Jawad awake by repeatedly moving him from cell to cell over two weeks in May 2004 but say the treatment did not amount to torture and they have urged the judge not to dismiss the charges.
A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, declined Friday to comment on Frakt’s allegations, which are based on records from the prison.
In a separate motion, Frakt argues for a dismissal on the grounds that a senior Pentagon legal official may have misled the court in his testimony last month.
The lawyer said Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann was deliberately evasive when testifying on a hearing called to determine whether he had used what the military calls improper “command influence” to push for criminal charges to be filed against Jawad. A ruling is pending on the issue.
A spokesman for the general said Hartmann stands by his testimony and declined further comment.
In Canada, newly released documents indicate that Canadian officials knew in 2004 that a teen being held at Guantanamo Bay was being deprived of sleep for weeks to soften him up for interrogation.
The Department of Foreign Affairs reports say Canadian official Jim Gould visited Toronto-born Omar Khadr at the U.S. military base and was told by the military that measures were taken to make the then-17-year-old more pliable for interviews.
The documents, released by Khadr’s lawyers Wednesday and ordered to be released by a Canadian judge last month, are marked secret. Some parts are blacked out.
One of the reports—written by Scott Heatherington, director of foreign intelligence for Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department—said Khadr was to be placed in isolation for up to three weeks and then interviewed again.
Khadr is scheduled to face trial in October for allegedly lobbing a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces soldier following a firefight in Afghanistan.
Khar’s lawyers say they will release a video to the media early next week of their client being interrogated by Canadian officials.
The U.S. military says it plans to prosecute about 80 of the 265 men held at Guantanamo Bay. Twenty detainees have been charged so far.
(AP)
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I don’t believe a freaking word from this freaking terrorist’s measley-mouth lawyer says happened to him.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:26 pmWe all know how Club de Gimo is a nice resting place for Akbar and Habib. There, they get clean clothing (that’s a first in their pathetic life no doubt) three squares a day; cooked to their liking and personal taste, plenty of sunshine and exercise, the funny little prayer book, free medical, no doubt the best they have ever freaking had in their miserable life and of course bleeding-heart libtard freaking legal advice.
And if it is true. Good, go anorxic mo fo.
“Jawad is charged with attempted murder for throwing a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their translator in Afghanistan in December 2002.”
Fuck you J-wad; no sleep for you! Come back one week!
July 11th, 2008 at 9:07 pmHow much you want to bet he was overweight to begin with? Frankly I have no problem with feeding them a bare subsistence diet that doesn’t even allow them to develop muscle mass.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pmHey, our Marines told him to shut the fuck up and eat the fucking creamy peanut butter …. that he WAS NOT getting the chunky style … Tough shit and horse shoes, hadji!
July 11th, 2008 at 9:34 pmThat’s probably about what happened.
So what happens if we just revert to hacking off heads with dull Ka-Bars. I mean the liberals don’t seem to have a problem with that, or did they forget about those crimes?
July 11th, 2008 at 10:04 pmHow much did he weigh to begin with
July 12th, 2008 at 1:28 amWhat a lying sack of shit. A paid liar representing a member of the tagiyya community of moon-god pedlers.
Fuck him. Feed him to the sharks.
July 12th, 2008 at 3:57 am“An Afghan prisoner suffered significant weight loss…”
Yeah? I’ve heard that gets even worse when you’re dead.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:46 amI have no problem with that. A good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:55 amMost Americans (including me) would pay a lot of money to loose 10% of their body weight. I just wonder if it’s a fad or if he can keep it off in the long run. Let’s track him for a year.
…then kill him.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am