Danish former prisoner says abused in Afghanistan

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05351369.htm

COPENHAGEN, June 5 (Reuters) - A Danish citizen said on Saturday he was abused by U.S. troops in a military prison in Afghanistan in a similar way to Iraqi detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane, 30, told the daily Politiken newspaper's Sunday edition that he was tortured in a prison camp in Kandahar in Afghanistan in 2002 after being captured in Pakistan. He was later transferred to the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was held for two years.

Abderrahmane, with an Algerian farther and a Danish mother, said that soldiers in Afghanistan took pictures of him and made fun of his genitals while he was chained, hooded and naked.

"The Americans did all to humiliate us. Why else should we be naked in the middle of a tent? Why should they hit me and shave me against my religion? Because it was a psychological fight," he said. The interview was published on the paper's Web site on Saturday in advance of the newspaper's Sunday edition.

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1. Ughhhhh!

This just gets more and more disgusting!!!

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2. Hopefully, they'll have it up on their website..

.. so it should be an interesting read. And if not, my mom subscribes to Politiken (straight translation: The Policy), so I can probably get it from her.