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Detainees: We're Not Enemy Combatants »

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Two former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suing former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other military officials, accusing them of mistreating and imprisoning them for years despite knowing they weren't enemy combatants.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)STONERS
    STONERS
    March 23, 2007, 12:39 a.m.

    Like other such lawsuits pending in the Washington federal court, the complaint accuses the government of torturing detainees. Military officials kicked and beat prisoners, suspended them from ceilings, humiliated them and desecrated their Qurans, the lawsuit contends.

    What is unique about this case, however, is that two of the detainees - identified as Abu Muhammad and Zakirjan Hasam - say they underwent the military's Combatant Status Review Tribunals and were ruled not to be enemy combatants. Despite that, they said, their mistreatment continued for nearly two years before they were released.

    • Avg rating: (+2/-0 2)bill2936
      bill2936
      March 23, 2007, 1:42 p.m.

      Detainees: We're Not Enemy Combatants

      at least not since you locked us up.

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)dobskier
        dobskier
        March 23, 2007, 7:52 p.m.

        Your right!! The US spends billions to gather up some of the good old boys for no reason. Let's let them all go free in LA. Better yet I'm sure some dems would like to give them a place to stay. Oh wait.. not in my back yard.

        Buy your guns now because the terrorists already have them.

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