Gitmo Torture Victim Free After 12 Years of Abuse

"In January 2002, the first detainees were flown in from Afghanistan.

"'Guantanamo was the epicentre of what became the de facto US posture that it was permissible, even preferable, to detain any and all people who conceivably might have connections to our enemies,' says a report by a bipartisan group called the Constitution Project.

"The Detainee Treatment report was written by a committee chaired by politicians of both parties, a former FBI director, a former president of the American Bar Association, leading legal academics and a former three-star general.

"'Although it was never stated explicitly, senior officials thought it better to detain any number of innocent people than to run the risk of setting free anyone who might be a threat,' the report states."

Terror torture and torpor Inside Guantanamo Bay with the forever prisoners
 

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