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Titolo: Guantanamo detainee sues British gov't

Guantanamo detainee sues British gov't 
By PAISLEY DODDS 
Wed Sep 12, 4:46 PM ET
 
LONDON - A former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp filed a
lawsuit against the British government Wednesday, alleging the country's
spy agencies knew he was being abused in U.S. custody yet allowed his
continued interrogation. 
 
 
Hundreds of detainees have been released without charge after being held
for years at the U.S. prison. Several have filed suits against the U.S.
government but this is the first known case charging Britain's MI5 and MI6
agencies were complicit in alleged abuse.
The case raises questions about how much power Britain had over the
treatment of British detainees at U.S. camps, what constitutes
mistreatment and whether British agents should have questioned prisoners
amid the abuse allegations.
Tarek Dergoul, a 29-year-old British citizen, claimed in documents filed
in London's High Court that he was abused and tortured while in U.S.
custody in Afghanistan and at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
After roughly two years in custody, he was released in 2004 without charge.
Telephone calls to the Pentagon seeking comment about Dergoul's
allegations were not immediately returned.
Although Dergoul says British agents never abused him or threatened him,
he alleges Britain's government acted illegally by obtaining information
from him while they knew he was being abused or mistreated.
During his captivity, Dergoul charged, he was visited several times by
British intelligence agents from MI5 or MI6. He said he told them about
suffering beatings and sexual assaults, being subjected to extreme
temperatures and being repeatedly attacked by the Extreme Reaction Force —
a special riot squad criticized for its techniques and use of females with
Muslims.
Louise Christian, a lawyer in the firm representing Dergoul, accused the
British government of failing to take a strong stand against abuse,
mistreatment and torture of detainees held by U.S. authorities.
The Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said it raised concerns about
allegations of mistreatment.
"We asked the U.S. authorities to investigate these allegations and to
assure us that British detainees would not be subjected to any abuse at
Guantanamo Bay," said a British official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. "We received
reassurances from the U.S. authorities that the British detainees were not
abused or mistreated."
A British government security official said MI5 officers interviewing
detainees overseas must abide by Britain's Human Rights Act, which forbids
the use of torture and inhumane or degrading treatment.
The situation is less clear if detainees are allegedly being abused or
mistreated by foreign captors. But, the official said, in at least four
cases, MI5 raised concerns over allegations of mistreatment of prisoners
at Guantanamo, lodging official complaints with the FBI and CIA and
passing along other concerns.
"Interviews (by British agents) were not carried out in those cases, the
detaining authorities were notified and agents reported their concerns
back to London," the official said.
The official would not say whether British agents raised concerns about
Dergoul's treatment or if the four cases involved British prisoners.
Shortly after the Guantanamo camp opened, the FBI warned the Department of
Defense of heavy-handed interrogations, although the documented cases of
abuses did not identify the detainees or their nationalities.
In a March 2005 report, lawmakers on Parliament's Intelligence and
Security Committee said British intelligence agents had made a total of 15
complaints about detainee treatment in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and
Iraq. Agents had conducted or observed around 2,000 detainee interviews by
2005, the lawmakers said.
Dergoul claims he went to Pakistan in July 2001 and later crossed into
Afghanistan to purchase property.
He said a group of Afghan warlords sold him to U.S. authorities after the
military campaign to oust the Taliban regime. At the U.S. camp at Bagram,
he claimed, U.S. authorities held a gun to his head, beat him, threatened
him and subjected him to the cold. 
Dergoul said he was then sent to Kandahar, where he alleged he was hooded
during regular interrogations, denied medical treatment and forced to
watch as U.S. authorities ripped up the Quran. 
After three months in Kandahar he was moved to Guantanamo, he said. Once
there, he was regularly assaulted by the riot squad, which used pepper
spray on him, beat him and put his head in the toilet, the suit charged. 
He also said in the court documents that he was "shackled to the floor for
up to 10 hours with no access to a toilet." 
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 Guantanamo detainee sues British gov't
ma non erano così contenti che facevano causa per RESTARE in quel
paradiso terrestre riconosciuto tale (con tanto di paradisiaci
uccellini cinguettanti in sottofondo) persino da un bolsceviko come
Michael Moore?

paradiso terrestre
Perche' un *PIRLA* di nome Giovannino pensava forse che fossero tutti
britannici quelli prigionieri a Guantanamo?
E comunque di *COGLIONI* che sperano di guadagnare soldi a spese dei
contribuenti ve ne sono tanti.
Quelli dell'articolo non sono da meno.
-Stefano

 Quelli dell'articolo non sono da meno.
mentre quelli che parlano dei detenuti che chiedono di restare a
Guantanamo sono onesti giornalisti, perchè l'ha deciso il facocero del
Botswana....

Guantanamo sono onesti giornalisti
Ca**o c'entrano i "giornalisti" lo sa solo un *PIRLA* come te, povero
Giovannino.
O forse, nella tua *PIRLAGGINE*, hai capito che e' il giornalista che
fara' causa al governo inglese?
Bah...
-Stefano