Released without charge
13.03.2004 [08:39]
A Briton flown home from U.S captivity in Guantanamo Bay says conditions were so inhuman that animals in the prison camp were given better treatment than the detainees, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Friday.
Jamal al Harith, 35, was the first of five men to go free on Tuesday shortly
after the group landed at RAF Northolt air base in west London having been
handed over to British custody by the United States. The others were released
on Wednesday.
"They actually said that -- 'You have no rights here'," Harith,
from the northern city of Manchester, told the Daily Mirror. "After a
while, we stopped asking for human rights -- we wanted animal rights.
"In Camp X-Ray my cage was right next to a kennel housing an Alsatian
dog. He had a wooden house with air conditioning and green grass to exercise
on.
"I said to the guards, 'I want his rights' and they replied, "That
dog is a member of the US army'."
Held in captivity for two years, Harith also said he was assaulted with fists,
feet, knees and batons after refusing a mystery injection.
"One of them attacked me really hard and left me with a deep red mark
from my backbone down to my knee," he told the Daily Mirror. "I
thought I was bleeding, but it was just really bad bruising.
"The whole point of Guantanamo was to get to you psychologically. The
beatings were not nearly as bad as the psychological torture -- bruises heal
after a week -- but the other stuff stays with you."
A further four Britons remain at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba. Washington
says they are more dangerous than the five it decided to send home, who have
all been released without charge.
????????: Reuters
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Iraqis must also KIDNAP INVADERS AND TREAT THEM THE SAME WAY
by London guest on 13.03.2004 [09:41]
Yes,Today it is Racist Anglo-Saxons who are HUMILIATING THESE PEOPLE TOMORROW
it will be their TURN FOR SURE!
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