how can slashing someone's genitals with a scalpel not be torture?

[ourbluenation]

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. government has photographic evidence that a Guantanamo Bay inmate was tortured with a knife after being taken to Morocco by U.S. forces, a British human rights group said Tuesday.

Reprieve said their client, Binyam Mohamed, had his genitals slashed repeatedly with a doctor's scalpel while in custody in Morocco after he was flown there from Pakistan by American officials in 2002. It also said his U.S. captors later took pictures of the abuse to show authorities that his wounds were healing.

Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and former British resident, is charged by the United States with plotting with al-Qaeda to bomb American apartment buildings.

Reprieve maintains the charge is based on information coerced from Mohamed using torture.

Reprieve quoted Mohamed as saying that an American female photographed his wounds before he boarded a plane in the Moroccan city of Rabat on the night of Jan. 21, 2004.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-10-torture_N.htm

[Fuzz]

1. Please. Fraternities do that all the damn time.

Why do you hate America?

[mmonk]

2. Enhanced interrogation techniques, not torture.

Ask any German veteran of World War II. That's what they called it. It's what we call it.

[Indenturedebtor]

3. Whatever. Those are "Freedom Slices"

I'll need to see your national ID, and your flag pin immediately brother!

[mmonk]

8. You should copyright that.

[malaise]

4. It is torture but it also probably provided

much sexual gratification for the boys. Some very sick men rule this planet.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Ahem.

Ever been to the picture galleries at Body Modification E-zine?

And no, I ain't pasting no goddamned links to that goddamned online temple to self-mortification and self-mutilation. I mean, yeesh. Just fucking yeesh.

[Clovis Sangrail]

12. damn you to hell for preying on my curious nature

:banghead:

[Poll_Blind]

6. Sick!

PB

[Canuckistanian]

7. "America doesn't torture people"

No, of course not.

America doesn't manufacture microwave ovens, bicycles, steel or shoes, either.

It's all OUTSOURCED.

[magellan]

9. It simply doesn't matter to the repugnant imbeciles in this country

Including BushCo. They don't care that innocent people are being hurt. They worship revenge and lawlessness. They really are no different than the terrorists they can't catch.

[ourbluenation]

15. well we don't know if they're innocent, but torturing them isn't helping anything.

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[magellan]

16. The only way we know about the torture is they're being released w/out charge. n/t

[2rth2pwr]

When it's Lorraina Bobbitt and fodder for late night comedy.

[gollygee]

10. I thought this was going to be another circumcision thread

Upon reading the article, yes indeed that is torture.

[Fumesucker]

18. Yeah, me too..

And I agree that needlessly inflicting pain is a reasonable definition of torture.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Depends on the context. n/t

[ourbluenation]

14. context: gitmo detainee n/t

[librechik]

13. That is what keeps the terrorists from attacking us over and over again

!

:sarcasm:

[dysfunctional press]

17. people pay big bucks for sexual re-assignment surgery, don't they..?

nt

[unblock]

19. because bill clinton lied about nookie and didn't get removed from office

you liberals got your turn parsing language for the benefit of your permissive sexual agenda such as extramarital affairs in the oval office.

equal time means eight years of republican language parsing for their agenda. in this case it sounds like he was simply getting a personal shave. perhaps it was prep for surgery or perhaps mr. mohamed had other things planned for the evening. who knows. in any event, it appears that mr. mohamed had a seizure or was being violent and the nurse couldn't pull the razor away quickly enough. over and over again.

but is torture? please! listening to bill clinton wag his finger, THAT'S torture!





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