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This Is In Running for Most Disgusting Performance By the U.S. Congress
Ex-Guantanamo Inmate Finds Distracted Audience at US Congress
By Fanny Carrier, Agence France Presse
A handful of US lawmakers gave only half an ear to the testimony on Tuesday of a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who spent nearly five years in prison before being released without charge.0521 04 1
Murat Kurnaz, a Turk who was born in Germany, was arrested during a trip to Pakistan in autumn 2001 and delivered to US authorities in exchange for a payment of 3,000 dollars.
Kurnaz spent several nightmarish weeks at the US base in Kandahar, Afghanistan before being transferred to the US “war on terror” camp at Guantanamo.
US authorities determined in 2002 that Kurnaz had no terror links, but claimed that he remained a danger because one of his friends had committed a suicide attack — even though the friend in question is alive, and has never been found to have terror ties.
Kurnaz was not released until mid-2006, and only after pressure on Washington from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs invited Kurnaz to testify via video conference as part of a hearing on Guantanamo detainees who are being considered for release but cannot find a host country to take them.
Taking into account the difference in time between the United States and Europe, it was already late in Germany by the time committee speaker Democrat Bill Delahunt gave Kurnaz an opportunity to speak.
Kurnaz, his hair trimmed short and dressed in a black suit, gripped his notes and began to speak, but a technical difficulty prevented the audio from reaching Washington.
Some reporters and members of the public gave up waiting, but after around a half hour Kurnaz was able to be heard — and he recounted some of the horrific details of his travail.
“I did nothing wrong and I was treated like a monster,” he said, describing acts of torture such as being suspended by his wrists for hours on end, receiving electrical shocks and enduring simulated drowning.
“I know others have died from this kind of treatment,” he said.
“I suffered from sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, religious and sexual humiliations. I was beaten multiple times,” he said.
“There was no law in Guantanamo.”
Many of the details are included in his book, “Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo,” recently released in the United States.
Facing the screen, the majority of seats for committee members sat empty. Barely half a dozen lawmakers came to listen to the former detainee, and most were unable to remember his name, with one even calling him “Mr. Karzai.”
The first to speak after Kurnaz was finished was ranking member on the committee, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who expressed doubts about the testimony and recalled that the United States was “at war” and needed to protect itself even at the price of making some errors.
And when it came to the question of where ex-inmates should go when their home country refuses them, Rohrabacher said: “I would suggest that any of our allies who have criticized the US should take some of them themselves.”
It was past 10:00 pm in Germany by the time Democrat Jerrold Nadler spoke.
“The people who tortured you were committing crimes under American law,” Nadler said. “I hope in the next few years these people will be held accountable.
“I wanted in the name of the United States to express for you my regrets and my apologies,” he added, to the sound of timid applause from the public.
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American citizens shame should turn into action
We have to hold those people who are calling the shots to account. Torture is a violation of domestic and international law. If Nadler wants to do something substantive to hold the people ordering torture accountable he should start by supporting impeachment in the judiciary now and not over the next few years, what a coward. We may have to hold him accountable for being in a position to stop this activity and doing nothing.
Probably torture Nancy said, ""Don't go!"
That is just so pitiful. There is proof that we do not have a government that honors human rights. All the bellyaching we have heard about other countries' human rights records has always been BS. I can't wait for Cindy to take Nancy's seat in Congress.
4Peace
keep on dreaming 4Peace
You can't wait for What? Are you out of your mind?
Nothing can beat Nancy.
Who are you? Nancy's Chief of Staff or something?
You apparently have not spent much time on this issue. If the election is legit (a big if, to be sure), the Speaker of the House of Bush WILL be looking for a new job come November.
Your TV is not your friend.
Video Commentary:
"CONYERS: From Cowardice to Complicity"
DEMAND IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS NOW:
johnconyersjr@gmail.com / john.conyers@mail.house.gov
hes a troll
he told me in an earlier thread that he comes to these sites to counter what "people like me poison the airwaves" with.
I think he is in a public men's room in Florida somewhere. There's an echo and the sound of a republican being arrested in the background...
Calm down Willy, think before you write
Willy is precisely the reason why we keep on losing our ass. His defense sucks and is indeed without substance. I come to this site, because I'm sick and tired of he rhetoric which puts a Bush and Cheney ahead of the cause. Come up with something better than the men's room.
Get out of your defense mode and come up with facts, instead of trying to change the subject.
Nadler has no nads
"The people who tortured you were committing crimes under American law," Nadler said. "I hope in the next few years these people will be held accountable."
In the next few YEARS, Mr. Nadler?
After you've completely sold your country out by cashing in on your Capitol Hill connections with a lucrative lobbyist gig, perhaps, and the accountability that you're not concerned with exercising NOW is someone else's job?
You cowards are so transparent.
Your TV is not your friend.
Video Commentary:
"CONYERS: From Cowardice to Complicity"
DEMAND IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS NOW:
johnconyersjr@gmail.com / john.conyers@mail.house.gov
you tell em...
why can't I get a cushy job like that where people pay me to be lazy and NOT read reports and then, I get to retire, keep my healthcare, and jump on the gravy train like McCain's campaign staff?
Boy, that would be the life, huh.
I would sellout CHEAP too! half a pack of Newports and "40" and I would vote for anything!
I think we should get the illegal immigrants to work in congress. At least we wouldn't keep going further in the hole to China...
Amen!
Few things are more craven than the lukewarm pursuit of justice. Deploring criminal acts while taking no personal responsibility to see they are prosecuted does not seem to jibe with one's sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. We need more statesmen and fewer politicians.