GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Al Qaeda driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the terror network to US agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.
My mother asked me how long it would take me to tell them what they wanted to hear. I said right away. If they wanted me to say I was a bicycle, I'd say that; if they wanted me to claim the sky is purple, yup!!!
Translation: TORTURE DOESN'T WORK!!!!
In a REAL COURT, his statements would be inadmissible.
Hamdan's lawyers say he has been interrogated by more than 40 US agents, and contend that all his statements were tainted by coercive tactics including sleep deprivation and solitary confinement. The judge, Navy Captain Keith Allred, has suppressed some of the defendant's statements, ruling that they were obtained through coercion.
Why can't they just say TORTURE?!!
While the Pentagon chose Hamdan as one of the first detainees to face charges, some of his peers who did not cooperate with their captors have been sent home from Guantanamo.
Michael St. Ours, an agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said a man identified by Hamdan as bin Laden's top bodyguard, Abdellah Tabarak, refused to meet with him for interrogations. Tabarak was released to his native Morocco in 2004.
Yeah, the blogs were screaming about this yesterday!
WTF?!
Hamdan's lawyers have raised doubts about the tactics used to obtain Hamdan's statements, including late-night questioning.
Yeah, it was just 'late-night questioning."
Talk about cleaning up torture!!!!
