David Hicks: Torture ‘an everyday experience’

[Judi Lynn]

David Hicks: Torture ‘an everyday experience’
Sunday, March 6, 2011

David Hicks was one of the first “war on terror” detainees to be sent to the US military prison at Guantanamo the day it opened in January 2002.

In a February 16 article, Truth-out.org’s Jason Leopold introduced Hicks as “the Australian drifter who converted to Islam, changed his name to Muhammed Dawood and ended up at training camps in Afghanistan the US government said were linked to al-Qaeda, one of which was visited by Osama bin Laden several times.

“Hicks was picked up at a taxi stand by the Northern Alliance in November 2001 and sold to US forces for about $1,500. Hicks was detainee 002, the second person processed into Guantanamo on January 11, 2002, the day the facility opened.

“Hicks was brutally tortured. Psychologically and physically for four years, maybe longer. He was injected in the back of his neck with unknown drugs. He was sodomized with a foreign object. He spent nearly a year in solitary confinement. He was beaten once for ten hours.

More:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46888

[Angry Dragon]

1. and why is not bush in prison??

The US has dropped into a hole they can not climb out of.

President Obama, is this something this country should do and if not then
you have failed in your duties to uphold the law of this land

[Scuba]

2. Careful, if you expose these crimes they'll lock you up.

[MasonJar]

3. Well, W is not going to be going anywhere else. The other countries

must be really happy. I cannot believe Obama refuses to investigate this. W has put the crime in his own words (well he probably didn't actually write them come to think of it. That would mean word skills) in a book he's out there touting.