'They Couldn't Take Away My Dignity' (I Didn't Do Anything Except Want To Kill Infidels Alert!)

Guardian ^ | 11/18/2005 | Mark Oliver

[Dallas59]

This weekend Amnesty International is holding a conference in London which brings together the biggest gathering of former "war on terror" detainees. Around 25 former inmates at Guantánamo Bay are attending and speakers will include former detainees from the UK, Russia and Afghanistan. Ahead of the three-day conference, Amnesty conducted interviews with four former Guantánamo detainees and transcripts of these are below. You can also listen to audio files of the first and second interviews.

[ladyinred]

Well this cinches it. American and British soldiers are just the most evil things on earth. How dare they not treat terrorists like guest coming to Sunday dinner! /sarcasm

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Amnesty International is a big reason why the US should never partake in the International Criminal Court...because of idiocies like these.

[cowboyway]

Sometimes I exploded myself

Doh!

[SkyPilot]

The only difference between Lord Haw Haw and the Guardian is that at least the former had the guts to openly proclaim who he was.

Both are equally guilty.

[cowboyway]

The headphones caused high pressure on the head, almost causing a hole, and all of that caused a lot of pain.

What a bunch of babies. Every teenage girl in America wears headphones 24/7 and they smile and laugh right through the pain.

[coconutt2000]

Amnesty International was one of the clubs I belonged to in high school. After a little bit it became obvious that letter writing campaigns had no effect on tyrannical governments.

I admire the sentiment that peaceful political dissent should be allowed, and those who voice dissenting political opinions peacefully should not be imprisoned. Amnesty International however has become a tool for political manipulation and no longer, if ever they truly, promotes free and peaceful political discussion and dissent. They're a tool for the American political Left, and their support for our enemies against the principles their organization is founded on is proof that.

[samtheman]

Amnesty conducted interviews with four former Guantánamo detainees

With or without panties on their heads?

[sheik yerbouty]

Break out the dreaded panties. Another treatment is needed..

[mc6809e]

Next time you take your kids to the movies, remember that JK Rowling used to work for Amnesty International.

She's a billionaire now.

[CPOSharky]

'They Couldn't Take Away My Dignity'

This, from the most easily humiliated people in the world.

[CondorFlight]

How about an international conference of victims of terror?
They can come in their wheelchairs, with their crutches, seeing-eye dogs, artificial limbs, etc. etc.,
so that Amnesty can condemn them for being in the way. . .

[exDemocratbutnotRepubican]

Here is what Amnesty International thought of the Taliban when Clinton was president.

"According to Amnesty International, over a dozen detainees died while in Taliban custody between early 1998 and early 1999. They include two former Nangarhar University lecturers and U.N. agency staff workers Pohandoy Mohammad Nazir Habibi and Pohanmal Mohammad Hashem Basharyar. Habibi and Basharyar were active in Afghan intellectual circles seeking peace through political means. The two men reportedly were forced into a car in July 1998 by members of the provincial internal security office. Their bodies were found several days later. Other detainees reportedly have died in a similar fashion, including Dagarwal Agha Mohammad, Sher Mohammad, General Solhmal, Abdul Ghani, Ghadim Shah, and Mohammad Khan Tudai. According to AI, Taliban officials arrested these persons, all of whom took active roles in discussions of options for a political settlement. Several days to one month after arrest, the bodies of these persons were discovered, often bearing signs of torture, in a field or hanging from tree."