Lt Cmdr: Corroborates Evidence Of Torture Of 15 Year Old While In US Custody (ACLU)

[kpete]

Tortured Evidence
by ACLU
Fri May 09, 2008 at 11:05:45 AM PDT
By ACLU Staff Attorney Amrit Singh

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As in Jawad’s case, torture and prisoner abuse are central issues in Khadr’s case. The government’s case against Khadr appears to rest in large part on statements which he allegedly made in U.S. custody in Bagram and Guantánamo. But Khadr says that these statements were coerced from him. In a signed, nine-page affidavit filed in March, he describes charges of abuse at the hands of U.S. interrogators, saying that he was repeatedly interrogated while he was in excruciating pain, hooded and menaced by barking dogs, and threatened with rape.

Today’s proceedings revealed that the government’s own documents corroborate Khadr’s claims of abuse at the hands of U.S. forces. Khadr’s military defense counsel, Lt. Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, stated in court that a U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) report into Khadr’s abuse at Bagram includes a statement by "Sergeant P." corroborating Khadr’s claim that he was left standing in Bagram for hours on end with his hands extended above his head and chained to the ceiling.

The CID investigation was however abruptly discontinued when it ran across "Sergeant C" and found that he was the subject of a court martial investigation. According to Kuebler, "Sergeant C," who also interrogated Khadr, was one of the most aggressive interrogators at Bagram and was implicated in the homicide deaths of prisoners there. Kuebler believes that the CID investigation was deliberately "killed" to prevent the military commission proceedings in Khadr’s case from unraveling.

Kuebler also revealed that the prosecution was in possession of a February 2003 videotape of Khadr’s interrogation by Canadian officials. The defense had been permitted to view this videotape only in the prosecutor’s office. According to Kuebler, this videotape is "very relevant" to show Khadr’s mental state.

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more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/9/135748/5341/884/512703

[pleah]

1. K&R

It is pretty sad, when you have to go to Canada to get a (fair) hearing. American justice is getting harder to find.

[Solly Mack]

2. Nuttin but a war crime nation

[Wilms]

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