Posted on 08/29/2014 5:23:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Abou Elkassim Britel can’t sleep, or he sleeps too much; it varies. He backs out of commitments. The Islamic website he wants to publish from his Italian home remains unfinished.
“I would add,” he said through translation, “that I cannot think of the future.”
The doctors tell Britel that he has post-traumatic stress disorder, after a decade-long ordeal of imprisonment without charge or transfer and abuse. It began in 2002, when the United States packed him onto a contractor’s Gulfstream V in Pakistan and flew him to Morocco.
Britel survived what the US calls rendition, an extrajudicial process of transferring a detainee for “interrogation” in a foreign country. Allies of the US beat Britel with a cricket bat, shoved a bottle into his anus, denied him access to lawyers and Italian diplomats, and unceremoniously released him in 2011, as if nothing ever happened.
“Rendition is a series of shocking events, one worse than the other,” he said.
The latest shock comes from Washington, in the form of a long-delayed Senate intelligence committee report into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture. Britel and nine other rendition survivors want to see their names in it, a measure they consider necessary both for accountability and for their own closure. In an open letter to Barack Obama on Thursday, coordinated by human rights group Reprieve, they urge the report’s thorough and prompt declassification.
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Muslims campaign donation to the left in ink. I can hear Pelosi saying, yes declassify so this poor man can find peace. Obama will do it for the suffering people October 30th.
While their pals are over in the sewer beheading and murdering people, you can bet these scumbags and their scumbag lawyers can't wait for the lawsuits to start so the Muzzie scumbags can have "closure". What a country. We let our enemies sue us now.
I am disgusted by this torture. As a Jag Officer I taught Geneva and Hague conventions. I realize some, but clearly not all, of the individuals tortured in league with the CIA were not technically covered by Geneva Hague, but nonetheless, I thought our country was better than this. I am shocked horrified and betrayed by this.
Reparations for the poor mooselimb who had his radical islamic feelings hurt.
How many more of these piteous creatures are out there?
Give them all 40 acres and a mule.
Well just boo hoo. They didn’t get beheaded or have their hands cut off. Nobody raped and killed their wives and kids in front of them.
According to wiki ‘in September 2011, Ackerman reported a series of articles for Wired alleging anti-
Islamic bias in FBI training materials.[6] As
a result, the FBI launched “a comprehensive review of all training and reference materials that relate in any way to religion or culture.”[7]’
This guy has zero credibility, in my view.
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