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Judge’s Ruling Confirms Innocent Gitmo Detainee Tortured To Make False Confessions

Alex Constantine - October 1, 2009

a148 colleen kollarkotelly 2050081722 16839 - Judge’s Ruling Confirms Innocent Gitmo Detainee Tortured To Make False ConfessionsBy Andy Worthington
The Public Record, Sep 30th, 2009

In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information. But for sheer cynicism, I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the US government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth. ...

Continued: http://pubrecord.org/torture/5645/judges-ruling-confirms-innocent-gitmo/