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A Torturer Will Testify?

By The Daily Dish
Apr 29 2010, 12:40 PM ET

Dramatic news via Spencer Ackerman from the military commission case of Omar Khadr, the Canadian detained by the US when he was just 15 and sent to Gitmo:

In the hearing’s most dramatic moment, Flowers said at least one interrogator would testify to having personally taken part in Khadr’s abuse. As detailed in a motion filed by the defense in 2008, Khadr claims in his affidavit that his interrogators threatened him with rape, denied him medical treatment for gunshot and shrapnel wounds he suffered in his July 2002 capture in Afghanistan, and used him as a “human mop” to clean up his own excrement. The interrogator, referred to in the hearing only as “Interrogator #1,” will testify on behalf of the defense that he personally threatened Khadr “with rape” by threatening to render Khadr to an undisclosed Arab country where he would face the abuse.

Yes, this was America. But we should move on, right?



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