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Gitmo Prisoner Releases "Torture Diary"
"When he gets out I fear he will not be normal Omar. I'm sure he will have changed," said Deghayes' mother, Zohra Zewawi. CAIRO — The family of a British resident being held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp have released a graphic diary detailing abuse he faced at the hands of his captors, the Guardian reported Saturday. "I worry that something has happened to his mind. He is being tortured. I read his diary. When he gets out I fear he will not be normal Omar. I'm sure he will have changed," Zohra Zewawi, the mother of Libyan national Omar Deghayes, told the Guardian. Deghayes, 37, is one of five men who Britain asked the United States to release from the controversial camp in Cuba last week. Deghayes was arrested in Pakistan after the US invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks before being taken to Bagram in Afghanistan and then to Guantanamo. His family says he had gone to Pakistan to start a business exporting dried fruit to a leading supermarket. He grew up in Brighton and studied law at Wolverhampton University and then studied in Huddersfield. Deghayes's case drew international headlines in 2005 after his lawyer revealed that he was left blinded in one eye after a soldier plunged his finger into it. But this released diary, which he gave to a lawyer who visited him in prison, contains far more graphic details than previously made public.
Torture Journey "It is very distressing and sad to go through and remember again," Deghayes says in his diary. Deghayes's nightmarish experience began long before Guantanamo when he was arrested in Pakistan where he says sadistically tortured by electric shocks. "The more I scream they will laugh and do it again ... my screams all in vain," he said. He was then handed over to the Americans, who took him hooded to the US military base in Bagram on one of the notorious rendition flights. "Two soldiers locked their arms into mine and lifted me off the ground. All my [weight] borne by my arms which were shackled behind my back. "I was thrown in the plane. There were many others in the torture position," he said in his diary. In Bagram, Deghayes says, he was chained in a cage "with hands stretched above [my] head ...causing suffocation. "He was subject there to a miscellany of torture techniques, the lesser of which were electric shocks. "They hold me naked in the night, freezing cold, and throw buckets of water and fill the bucket and throw [it] again. I shiver and shake badly and try to sit down to gain warmth. They kick and punch and say stand up until I fall to the ground in weakness," he said. Deghayes further witnessed two prisoners being killed by American soldiers. The first one was shot dead after he had gone to the aid of a prisoner, who was being beaten and kicked by the guards. The second was beaten to death. "One by the name of Abdaulmalik, Moroccan and Italian, was beaten until I heard no sound of him after the screaming. There was afterwards panic in prison and the guards running about in fear saying to each other the Arab has died. I have not seen this young man again," Deghayes says. Other prisoners were luckier that they did not die, but left paralyzed and mentally damaged after rounds of beating, he noted.
Deghayes also faced starvation in Bagram, going without food for 45 days, which caused him hallucinations. Forget About Law In Guantanamo, US guards welcomed Deghayes with beating on his first day and he came to realize that the kicks and assaults were a fixed routine. The Guantanamo prisoners, he says, were also given mystery injections. Deghayes further confirmed that US guards threw a copy of the Noble Qur'an in a toilet, which provoked him and his colleagues to revolt. As a punishment his head and beard were shaved. In Guantanamo, he says, "sexual abuse did occur", but says he can not bear to relive the details until he is freed. "It is very distressing and sad to go through and remember again. "Deghayes says he was told by FBI interrogators law does not apply to Guantanamo. "Many times one FBI interrogator by the name of Craig said, 'Omar, it is nothing like the law you studied in the UK. There will never be a proper court and lawyers etc, it would be only a military tribunal to determine your future and your life. Your best choice is to cooperate with me," he said. Parts of Deghayes' counts are consistent with those from former detainees, the Guardian said.
They further challenge US President George Bush's repeated claims that the US does not use torture.
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I came across this.Please Read and make du'a for all of our brothers inshaAllah.
Gitmo Prisoner Releases "Torture Diary"
"When he gets out I fear he will not be normal Omar. I'm sure he will have changed," said Deghayes' mother, Zohra Zewawi. CAIRO — The family of a British resident being held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp have released a graphic diary detailing abuse he faced at the hands of his captors, the Guardian reported Saturday. "I worry that something has happened to his mind. He is being tortured. I read his diary. When he gets out I fear he will not be normal Omar. I'm sure he will have changed," Zohra Zewawi, the mother of Libyan national Omar Deghayes, told the Guardian. Deghayes, 37, is one of five men who Britain asked the United States to release from the controversial camp in Cuba last week. Deghayes was arrested in Pakistan after the US invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks before being taken to Bagram in Afghanistan and then to Guantanamo. His family says he had gone to Pakistan to start a business exporting dried fruit to a leading supermarket. He grew up in Brighton and studied law at Wolverhampton University and then studied in Huddersfield. Deghayes's case drew international headlines in 2005 after his lawyer revealed that he was left blinded in one eye after a soldier plunged his finger into it. But this released diary, which he gave to a lawyer who visited him in prison, contains far more graphic details than previously made public.
Torture Journey "It is very distressing and sad to go through and remember again," Deghayes says in his diary. Deghayes's nightmarish experience began long before Guantanamo when he was arrested in Pakistan where he says sadistically tortured by electric shocks. "The more I scream they will laugh and do it again ... my screams all in vain," he said. He was then handed over to the Americans, who took him hooded to the US military base in Bagram on one of the notorious rendition flights. "Two soldiers locked their arms into mine and lifted me off the ground. All my [weight] borne by my arms which were shackled behind my back. "I was thrown in the plane. There were many others in the torture position," he said in his diary. In Bagram, Deghayes says, he was chained in a cage "with hands stretched above [my] head ...causing suffocation. "He was subject there to a miscellany of torture techniques, the lesser of which were electric shocks. "They hold me naked in the night, freezing cold, and throw buckets of water and fill the bucket and throw [it] again. I shiver and shake badly and try to sit down to gain warmth. They kick and punch and say stand up until I fall to the ground in weakness," he said. Deghayes further witnessed two prisoners being killed by American soldiers. The first one was shot dead after he had gone to the aid of a prisoner, who was being beaten and kicked by the guards. The second was beaten to death. "One by the name of Abdaulmalik, Moroccan and Italian, was beaten until I heard no sound of him after the screaming. There was afterwards panic in prison and the guards running about in fear saying to each other the Arab has died. I have not seen this young man again," Deghayes says. Other prisoners were luckier that they did not die, but left paralyzed and mentally damaged after rounds of beating, he noted.
Deghayes also faced starvation in Bagram, going without food for 45 days, which caused him hallucinations. Forget About Law In Guantanamo, US guards welcomed Deghayes with beating on his first day and he came to realize that the kicks and assaults were a fixed routine. The Guantanamo prisoners, he says, were also given mystery injections. Deghayes further confirmed that US guards threw a copy of the Noble Qur'an in a toilet, which provoked him and his colleagues to revolt. As a punishment his head and beard were shaved. In Guantanamo, he says, "sexual abuse did occur", but says he can not bear to relive the details until he is freed. "It is very distressing and sad to go through and remember again. "Deghayes says he was told by FBI interrogators law does not apply to Guantanamo. "Many times one FBI interrogator by the name of Craig said, 'Omar, it is nothing like the law you studied in the UK. There will never be a proper court and lawyers etc, it would be only a military tribunal to determine your future and your life. Your best choice is to cooperate with me," he said. Parts of Deghayes' counts are consistent with those from former detainees, the Guardian said.
They further challenge US President George Bush's repeated claims that the US does not use torture.
http://www.islamonl ine.net/servlet/ Satellite? c=Article_ C&cid=1184649745 230&pagename= Zone-English- News/NWELayout