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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Khadr accuses U.S. interrogatOne interrogator court-martialled after an Afghan prisoner was beaten to deathors of abuse -- WASHINGTON — Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr says he was terribly abused by U.S. interrogators who dropped him, repeatedly pushed his masked face into a wall until he passed out and threatened him with rape. In an affidavit released today, Khadr outlines in detail what happened after he was captured during a firefight in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002. The firefight ended with American soldiers shooting him twice in the back. Unconscious for a week afterward, Khadr says the interrogations began while he was still on a stretcher and that he cried because of the pain inflicted during questioning. Many of the specifics of the measures used by U.S. soldiers were blacked out by the military before the eight-page document was made public. But it says Khadr “figured out right away” that he should tell his interrogators whatever they wanted to hear — just to keep from being abused. Khadr, then 15 years old, estimates he was questioned 42 times during the three months he spent at the U.S. facility in Bagram near Kabul before he was transferred to the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His chief interrogator at Bagram was revealed last week at a military commission hearing to be Sgt. Joshua Claus, who was court-martialled after an Afghan prisoner was beaten to death. Khadr doesn’t name anyone but refers to a young blond man with glasses and a small tattoo on the top of his forearm. Interrogators pulled him off his stretcher, threw cold water on him and brought barking dogs into the room while his head was covered with a bag, said Khadr. They forced him to carry heavy buckets of water while he was still wounded and woke him up in the middle of the night to clean the floor and dry it until dawn. “On several occasions at Bagram, interrogators threatened to have me raped or sent to other countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan or Israel to be raped,” Khadr said. “Many times, during the interrogations, I was not allowed to use the bathroom and was forced to urinate on myself.” Many of Khadr’s allegations about his treatment have become public over the years through his lawyers, including one instance in Guantanamo when he was dragged back and forth like a human mop through a mixture of urine and pine oil on the floor. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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