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British man claims he was tortured and forced to sign confessions by CIA
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| Reuters / Mohammed Ameen |
A British man who was handed over to the CIA under the suspicion of
being an Islamist terrorist says he was severely tortured by
collaborators of the intelligence agency and forced to sign a
confession.
After disappearing from England and spending months in a prison in the African country of Djibouti, he has turned up in a New York City courtroom, charged with terrorism offenses, the Daily Mail reports.
The young man told his British lawyers that he was severely abused and tortured while imprisoned in Africa, where CIA interrogators questioned him between the months of August and November.
Although secret police in Djibouti were responsible for much of the torture, he says they worked in collaboration with US interrogators from the CIA and FBI.
Hashi says that Djibouti interrogators stripped him down to his underwear and threatened him with rape and sexual abuse while he was blindfolded, threatened to beat and electrocute him, and forced him to watch the torture that other prisoners endured.
Prisoners endured “beatings, being sexually abused, being pinned down naked and their testicles beaten,” Hashi told his lawyers.
At one point during his detention, Hashi was forced to watch a Swedish detainee horrifically tortured, which interrogators said would happen to him if he didn’t comply.
“They beat the soles of his feet, poured cold water on him and said they would electrocute him. There was screaming all around me and it was pretty horrific,” Hashi said.
The young man says American interrogators treated him better, but still forced him to sign a confession and a disclaimer waiving his right to silence and ignored his pleas to relay information about his detention and torture to British authorities. Because of their refusal to let the UK know about his whereabouts, the man remained ‘missing’ for four months, leaving his family in the dark about what happened to him.
After spending four months in an African prison and being forced to confess, Hashi was flown to the US, where he must now stand trial on charges of terrorism. His family discovered his whereabouts just before Christmas.
The US claims Hashi was involved in weapons and explosive training with the terrorist group al-Shabaab and was “deployed in combat operations to support military action in Somalia”. He currently faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Even though American interrogators were not directly involved in Hashi’s torture, they collaborated with the perpetrators and relied on information that was acquired via torture. If they did indeed force Hashi into confessing, then their actions raise further questions about the veracity of other claims they have made about suspected terrorists.
Hashi’s lawyers, Faisal Saifee and Saghir Hussain, believe that despite CIA claims that torture is no longer a method to procure information, interrogators continue to exploit such techniques by relying on others to do the dirty work – in this case, the secret police in Djibouti.
“These revelations will cast serious doubts on the credibility of the evidence that is being used against Mahdi,” Hussain said. “The prosecuting authorities in the US should be compelled by the trial judge to explain the exact circumstances in which this evidence was gathered.”
http://rt.com/usa/news/hashi-interrogators-torture-man-762/
So what really happened with the filibuster?
Yesterday afternoon, after the U.S. Senate's bipartisan train wreck of a "deal" to weaken the filibuster was reached, Harry Reid stated:
"I'm not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold [for the filibuster]."
Of course, that's politician-speak. So what's the real translation?
He didn't have the votes to completely GUT the filibuster as he and his statist pals hoped.
That's due to the hard work of liberty-loving Americans throughout the country who consistently faxed, emailed, and called their U.S. Senators in opposition to Harry Reid's radical scheme.
But while the end result was nowhere near as horrific as it could have been, I certainly cannot call this a complete victory.
Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid DID cut a deal, and the filibuster IS weakened.
Thanks to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's capitulation, some important basic procedural motions of the filibuster process were lost.
But it's not the end of the world, and I certainly don't want you to think that.
In my opinion, there are some very important lessons that must be learned from this fight.
First, your action is making a tremendous difference.
I've heard from more than one source that the phones were ringing off the hook in the U.S. Senate.
Senate faxes were tied up for hours.
In fact, the Senate even tried - but ultimately failed - to figure out a way to block our faxes.
The ONLY reason the Senate filibuster remains largely intact today is because of the action of folks like you.
Second, without your continued action, I'm afraid our Republic is going to speed off a cliff.
I know that perhaps sounds overly dramatic.
But it seems all Harry Reid and President Obama have to do to get the Republican leadership to cave in nowadays is to threaten a fight.
And make no mistake, the flurry of Big Government schemes we've seen recently - FISA reauthorization, NDAA, weakening the filibuster, the disastrous "fiscal cliff" deal, and hiking the debt ceiling - are only a taste of what's to come.
I know you're sick of the constant barrage coming from Congress.
I am, too.
But our Liberty Movement is rising.
I've told you before our Liberty candidates were the only bright spot in the 2012 elections for a Republican Party that performed dismally.
Dr. Paul told you recently about the many successes pro-liberty activists have seen gaining leadership positions within the GOP.
I believe you and I are the future.
But you and I can't take that for granted - and you and I can't let the statists GUT what's left of our constitutional freedoms in the meantime.
The good news is, you and I are holding off the statists' onslaught.
Right now, you and I are the biggest thorn in their sides.
For all your hard work, I thank you. And I know Dr. Paul thanks you, as well.
In Liberty,
John Tate
President
P.S. Campaign for Liberty has had its hands full in recent weeks trying to stop the statists' schemes.
Thanks to the help of good folks like you, we're making a tremendous impact.
But C4L depends on the generosity of our members to sound the alarm.
So won't you please chip in at least $10 or $20 TODAY to help Campaign for Liberty fight back against the statists' assaults?
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