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Evidence Of Torture?

By The Daily Dish
Jun 12 2008, 4:04 AM ET

Disturbing claims from Britain:

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.

According to John Yoo, slashing someone's genitals with a knife is not torture.



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