Sleep deprivation raised in bin Laden driver case

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Sleep deprivation raised in bin Laden driver case
14 Jul 2008 21:56:59 GMT

By Jim Loney

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, July 14 (Reuters) - A newly-
released document suggests Osama bin Laden's former driver may have been
subjected to 50 days of sleep deprivation at the Guantanamo prison camp
in Cuba, the prisoner's defense lawyers said on Monday.

Lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni in his late 30s, previously alleged Hamdan
was beaten and abused. But they said sleep deprivation for 50 days, if proved,
would be among the worst abuse he suffered at the hands of his American captors.

They also said the records indicated Hamdan and other prisoners at the remote
detention camp in southeastern Cuba were visited by someone called "Alfred
Hitchcock," apparently after the British master of psychological thriller films
who died in 1980.

-snip-

Hamdan's lawyers said they discovered the document among 600 pages of
"confinement" evidence handed over to the defense team on Saturday, 9 days
before trial. It said Hamdan was put into "Operation Sandman" between June 11
and July 30, 2003.

Operation Sandman has been described in press reports as a program devised by
behavioral scientists where an inmate's sleep is systematically interrupted.

-snip-

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[DS1]

1. ouch

let's convict him first.

[LynnTheDem]

2. It's only torture & illegal if anyone other than the US regime does it.

Doesn't the world know this by now???