[Marxism] Ex-prisoner: guards filmed abuse at Guantanamo

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

U.S. Guards Videotaped Guantanamo Abuse -- Briton
Sat May 15, 2004 05:47 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A third Briton detained at Guantanamo
Bay told a newspaper he was mistreated by his U.S. captors
and said guards at the camp in Cuba filmed his beatings.

Tarek Dergoul, 26, from London, was one of five Britons
released from the camp in March. Four others, said by
Washington to be more dangerous, remain captive.

He told The Observer newspaper Sunday he had been
repeatedly assaulted by Camp Delta's punishment squad, the
Extreme Reaction Force, during his 22-month imprisonment.

"They pepper-sprayed me in the face and I started
vomiting," he was quoted as saying. "They pinned me down
and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and
forced my head into the toilet and flushed.

"They tied me up like a beast and then they were kneeling
on me, kicking and punching.

"Finally they dragged me out of the cell in chains...and
shaved my beard, my hair and my eyebrows," he said.

"There was always this guy behind the squad, filming
everything that happened," he added.

Last week, two other British inmates wrote an open letter
to President Bush, saying they were beaten and accusing
U.S. military officials of deliberately misleading the
public about interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo.

The U.S. military, whose interrogation techniques have come
under fire amid revelations of abuse of prisoners at the
Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad, has denied allegations of
abuse at Guantanamo, where more than 600 people are being
held without charge or access to lawyers.

Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal said in their letter to Bush
that they were forced to squat with their hands shackled to
the floor for hours during questioning, and that dogs,
strobe lights and loud music were used to disorientate
them.






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