Moron Amnesty InternationalCaptain's Quarters
picks up on Amnesty International's
call for the arrest of President Bush, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Attorney General Gonzales, among others.
Lorie Byrd says, "Bring it on!"
Here's my addition to the mix:
AI's statement mentions only one supposed torture victim by name:
Amnesty International took testimony, for example, from Mohammad al Dossari, who alleged that US soldiers subjected him to electric shocks, death threats, assault and humiliation in Kandahar.I Googled
Dossari's name, and came up with this
AI page that has a little more details on the torture that Dossari claims he endured:
"Mr Al Dossari was arrested in Pakistan and held by Pakistani authorities for several weeks. Mr Al Dossari was transferred from Pakistan to Kandahar, Afghanistan via airplane by US authorities. On the plane, he was shackled by chains on his thighs, waist and shoulders, with his hands tied behind him. The chains were so tight around his shoulders that he was forced to lean forward at an extreme angle during the entire flight. This caused great pain to Mr Al Dossari’s stomach, where he had had an operation some years before. When Mr Al Dossari complained about the pain, he was hit and kicked in the stomach, causing him to vomit blood.
Upon arriving in Kandahar, Mr Al Dossari and other detainees were put on a row on the ground in a tent. US Marines urinated on the detainees and put cigarettes out on them (Mr Al Dossari has scars that are consistent with those that would be caused by cigarette burns). A US soldier pushed Mr Al Dossari’s head into the ground violently and other soldiers walked on him…"
Mohammad Al Dossari has alleged, among other things, that he was forced to walk barefoot over barbed wire and that his head was pushed to the ground on broken glass. He has alleged that US soldiers subjected him to electric shocks, death threats, assault and humiliation. He has alleged that in Guantánamo Bay, he was subjected to a violent cell extraction, possibly on 27 or 28 April 2002, in which his head was repeatedly struck against the floor by a military guard until he lost consciousness. The government of Bahrain is reported to have requested an investigation into this incident. Mohammaded Al Dossari has alleged that during interrogations he has been wrapped in Israeli and US flags, shackled to the floor ("short-shackled") for some 16 hours, and been threatened that his family in Bahrain would be killed.No word on whether his scars were consistent with being urinated on. And you gotta love the detail about him being wrapped in Israeli and US flags; is there no end to the horror? This is right up there with
Mamdouh Habib claiming that they showed him pictures of his wife naked with Osama Bin Laden. Interestingly Habib also claimed his head was hit against the floor at Gitmo.
