'Ghost Detainee' Tells of Torture
Benyam Mohammed, an alleged accomplice of 'dirty bomb' suspect Jose Padilla, has been around the block. Beginning as a 'ghost detainee' picked up in Pakistan, he spent two and one half years in prisons in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morrocco and Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon recently declassified his lawyer's 28 page diary of notes taken in interviews with Mohammed describing the torture inflicted on him which the Guardian has obtained and printed today.
In an statement given to his newly appointed lawyer, Mohammed has given an account of how he was tortured for more than two years after being questioned by US and British officials who he believes were from the FBI and MI6. As well as being beaten and subjected to loud music for long periods, he claims his genitals were sliced with scalpels.
....The lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, says: "This is outsourcing of torture, plain and simple. America knows torture is wrong but gets others to do its unconscionable dirty work.
Here's the diary entry describing the slicing of his genitals.
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