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Former Gitmo Detainee To Testify Before Congress

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:35:00 PM EST
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Tomorrow, Murat Kurnaz, a former Guantanamo detainee, will testify via video link before Rep. Delahunt’s Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight. The hearing will focus on refugees that are wrongfully imprisoned at Guantanamo. Witnesses will also include Lt. Colonel Stephen Abraham, who sat on CSRT panels and has since come out to say that the proceedings are fixed, and attorneys for men held at Guantanamo.

Information on the hearing can be found on the committee’s website. If you are unable to attend, the hearing will be webcast on the Subcommittee’s website.

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    Painful (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by Punchy on Mon May 19, 2008 at 03:24:07 PM EST
    It will be painful to watch/hear this man describe most certainly disturbing and inhumane treatments, conditions, and procedures.

    Then it will be even more painful to hear the WH catagorically deny every thing he says, call him a liar and a possible terrorist, and then blame the media for encouraging the terrorists by reporting the story.

    Yuck.

    We are only as sick as our secrets (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by HelenK on Mon May 19, 2008 at 04:57:14 PM EST
    Thats what they say in recovery circles, so while it will be painful it is necessary and good.

    Unfortunately I find many people (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Florida Resident on Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:09:09 PM EST
    who oppose this war (rightfully so I think) thinking that this kind of behavior is unique to the current war.  Vietnam had it share of atrocities in its day.  Whenever you dehumanize people because of their race, religion or whatever you will have those that will feel free to act in this manner.  We use to call them gooks in Nam now I we say that they are Islamo-fascist.  

    The atrocities of the Bush administration (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by barryluda on Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:41:12 PM EST
    As quoted in the press release from Congressman Delahunt regarding Murat Kurnaz's wrongful imprisonment:

    Judge Joyce Hens Green noted that the failure to take into consideration exculpatory evidence about Kurnaz when determining that he was an enemy combatant, demonstrated a lack of elemental due process.

    I hope that the frequency of the Bush administration's atrocities doesn't make us numb and complacent -- and the "excitement" of the Clinton / Obama campaign doesn't distract us from what's important -- and we all continue to realize just how critical it is for us to have a definitive change in November.

    Video link presumably because BushCo (none / 0) (#4)
    by inclusiveheart on Mon May 19, 2008 at 05:24:50 PM EST
    won't let him into the country...

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