Posted on May 17, 2007 by Iain
WASHINGTON: A suspected terrorist who attended high school in the US has told a military tribunal that “mental torture” at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp drove him twice to attempt suicide by chewing through his own arteries.Majid Khan, 27, a Pakistani and one of 14 “high-value” suspects held for years by the CIA at secret foreign prisons before their transfer to Guantanamo, said he lost 11 kilograms in 27 days during a hunger strike, a hearing transcript released on Tuesday by the Pentagon says.He also complained of mistreatment such as having his beard forcibly shaved and spending weeks without sunlight.”I swear to God this place in some sense worst than CIA jails,” Khan told the Combatant Status Review Tribunal, in imperfect English, on April 15 as it considered whether to designate him an enemy combatant.(source)
Compare and contrast how the USA treats its prisoners in the war on terror with how the Jihadis treat those that they capture and there are no doubt that the Jihadist win on the brutality and torture stakes. The Americans may not be perfect but there is no doubt that they are doing a darn sight better than those extreme followers of the religion of peace. They certainly could do more but this battle between the islamofacists and modernity the old legal paradigms have had to evolve to meet the challenge. Sadly too many on the left want to treat these dangerous men, who would kill them in an instant, as if they are mere shoplifters; but that is the modern left for you.
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mentally tortured there by having to read a newsletter full of ‘crap,’ being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo and having to play sports with a ball that would not bounce.
Cue the leftist terrorist-lovers whingeing and carping in 4 3 2….
You’re not doing a very good job of trying to gain any moral high-ground for the pro-war camp. You’re actually legitimising the “jihadists’” capture and treatment of military combatants by condoning similar treatment from the US.
Fang You beat me to it
that was the point I was about to make. 
Jangari to have the moral high ground one does not have to be perfect, merely better than your rivals and there is no doubt that the Yanks are better by many orders of magnitude than any Jihadist when it come to the treatment of prisoners.
Finally Iain, there is a point o which we might agree. I read a very interesting article the other day suggesting that the Americans are, in fact, way too soft on terrorists and mass murderers:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephen_kinzer/2007/05/the_terrorist_bush_isnt_after.html
Perhaps you can explain how this character fits into Bush’s wise and even-handed plan to eradicate terrorism.
Hap No one here is claiming that the yanks are perfect, just better than those that they oppose in this war. You exhibit the typical moral relativism that suggests that unless every act by the Americans or any other western power is beyond reproach then all of their actions are invalidated.
One of the reasons that the left is so morally bankrupt is this line of argument. I suppose that you had better start learning Arabic then…