'They used a scalpel... I was crying in agony': Guantanamo victim Binyam Mohamed speaks »
Posted By dissent 10 months ago in News'They took the scalpel... One of them took my penis in his hand and began to make cuts. He did it once, and they stood still for maybe a minute, watching my reaction.
'I was in agony, crying, trying desperately to suppress myself, but I was screaming. They must have done this 20 to 30 times in maybe two hours.'
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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PsychoHosebeastComment removed: Spammer, Abusive3 Replies
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hyperbola10 months ago
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Actually this story indicates how stupid American/British intelligence has been. They really believed this poor fool was deep into nukes, etc.? Either the quality of the people carrying out our intelligence is abyssmal or he has been in prison for so long to cover up incompetence.
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Albmore10 months ago
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PsycoHose- "invading a country on a lie" well maybe ALL should go back and look where Iraq was when we invaded. First there was NO end to the first war. There was a cease fire with certian conditions. The moment Sadam threw the inspectors out of the country the first time he broke the terms of the cease fire and the war should had continued. Clinton did nothing though. There were also enough resolution written by NATO warning that an attack would come if he did not return to the cease fire agreement.
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The lack of support came mostly from France who had sold Iraq their first Nuke facility. This and a weak German Kansler Schroder who was up for re-election started the movement against going back into Iraq.
Even when inspectors were allowed to return Schroder came out saying they would not support returning before the report from the inspectors even came out. These are the facts! You can look them up if you would like. You can also neg me if you cannot deal with the facts.-
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spkguy10 months ago
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"PsycoHose- "invading a country on a lie" well maybe ALL should go back and look where Iraq was when we invaded."
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ok why don't we do that...
Sept. 6, 2007 | On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.
Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.
On April 23, 2006, CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. "We continued to validate him the whole way through," said Drumheller. "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."
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hyperbola10 months ago
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Actually it seems to be you who cannot deal with facts.
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The "resolutions" you refer to were UN resolutions - with very specific conditions attached. The UN Security Council REFUSED Bush's attempts to get approval for the Iraq invasion. A large majority of the Security Council did not believe Bush's lies - and they were right.
Even more important for Americans is that we now know that Bush knowingly lied not only to the UN, but also to our Congress and the American people. When even the Republican House Majority Leader (of the time) says that Bush lied, and you refuse to accept reality, you show yourself to be a member of a deluded and dangerous sect.
Here is a commentary from an honorable Republican.
Impeachable offenses?
Have President Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney committed impeachable offenses for which the duumvirate should be convicted and removed from office by duping then-House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey into supporting legislation authorizing war against Iraq with twin lies -- that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had personal ties to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network; and that Saddam had miniaturized nuclear weapons, which could be unleashed by employing al Qaeda as a delivery system?
The facts - uncontradicted by either Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney - are chronicled in Barton Gellman's new book "Angler."
In late September 2002, Majority Leader Armey met the vice president in H-208 in the Capitol Building. Mr. Armey was no liberal or RINO (Republican In Name Only). He adamantly opposed taxes and earned a stellar 97 percent rating from the American Conservative Union during his long years in Congress. But Mr. Armey initially opposed an Iraqi war authorization because Saddam was no menace to the security of the United States. If Mr. Armey voted no, he would give political cover to any Democrat or Republican Doubting Thomas to vote likewise and probably foil an Iraqi war resolution.
Mr. Cheney's mission was to flip Mr. Armey. He succeeded by stooping to lies that bettered the instruction of President Clinton's perjury in Monicagate that occasioned Mr. Clinton's impeachment. According to Mr. Armey, Mr. Cheney sounded the tocsin that Iraq's "ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear," had been "substantially refined since the first Gulf war." They were "miniaturizing weapons, developing packages that could be moved even by ground personnel." Not a crumb of intelligence supported these falsehoods. ...
...After discovering the truth, Mr. Armey lamented he could probably have prevented the Iraqi war debacle: "Had I known or believed then what I believe I know now, I would have publicly opposed the resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happening, and I believe I would have done a better service to my country had I done so." ..
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/23/im...
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