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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4769604.stm
 Guantanamo man tells of 'torture'
 A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare
interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture.
 Fawzi al-Odah said hunger strikers were strapped to a chair and
force-fed through a tube three times a day.
A senior US official denied the use of torture in Guantanamo Bay.
Mr Odah's comments, relayed by his lawyer in answer to BBC questions,
came as another inmate launched a legal challenge to the force-feeding
policy.
 The case is being brought on behalf of Mohammed Bawazir, a Yemeni who
has also been held there since 2002.
The action is the first test for a new law explicitly outlawing torture
of terrorism suspects, which President George W Bush signed in
December.
 New testimony
 The BBC Today programme submitted questions for Mr Odah to his lawyer,
Tom Wilner, who has access to the camp.
There was no opportunity for the BBC to challenge Mr Odah's responses.
Mr Odah, who has been held at the base since 2002, was one of 84
inmates at Guantanamo who went on hunger strike in December. Just four
are still refusing food.
 US TORTURE BAN  Bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of terror
suspects  Limits interrogation techniques to US Army standards  CIA
interrogators have same legal rights as military  Proposed by US
Republican Senator John McCain  Initially opposed by White House
 Speaking to the BBC, US state department official Colleen Graffey said
all detainees were afforded regular status reviews and offered the
opportunity to renounce violence.
Through his lawyer, Mr Odah described his treatment during his hunger
strike.
"First they took my comfort items away from me. You know, my blanket,
my towel, my long pants, then my shoes. I was put in isolation for 10
days.
"They came in and read out an order. It said if you refuse to eat, we
will put you on the chair [for force feeding]."
He told how detainees were given "formulas" to force them to empty
their bowels and were strapped to a metal chair three times a day,
where a tube was inserted to administer food.
"One guy, a Saudi, told me that he had once been tortured in Saudi
Arabia and that this metal chair treatment was worse than any torture
he had ever endured or could imagine," Mr Odah said.
 Strain
 Mr Odah told the BBC that he felt like an old man despite being only
29.
He described a regime where young military guards routinely beat
detainees who caused problems.
 Death in this situation is better than being alive and staying here
without hope
  Fawzi al-Odah
Guantanamo detainee
  "If anything bad happens to the United States anywhere in the world,
they immediately react to us and treat us badly, like animals," he
said.
"I'm always tired. I have pain in my kidneys. I have trouble breathing.
I have pain in my heart and am short of breath. I have trouble
urinating and having bowel movements.
"Death in this situation is better than being alive and staying here
without hope," Mr Odah added.
The US has said it is holding Mr Odah because he is a dangerous "enemy
combatant", who travelled through Afghanistan with the Taleban, fired
AK-47 rifles while at an al-Qaeda training camp and fought against US
and coalition forces.
He dismissed the general allegations, branding them as "rubbish" and
"absolutely untrue".
However, he refused to elaborate, insisting he would only discuss the
accusations against at a court hearing.
 New rules
 In Washington, lawyers for Mohammed Bawazir, who has now ended his
hunger strike, said the force-feeding inflicted "unbearable pain" on
detainees.
 The BBC's Justin Webb, in Washington, says the legal challenge may be
a shot in the dark.
Under the terms of the new law it is not even clear whether courts have
the right to hear this case, he adds.
The lawyers are arguing that the new anti-torture rules which Mr Bush
signed in December outlaw this practice.
The UN Human Rights Commission said recently that it regarded
force-feeding at Guantanamo as a form of torture, a charge the US
firmly has repeatedly denied

interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture.
*ROTFL*
Questo e' veramente uno spasso! :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Certo, per una feccia di secondino come te, che gode delle sofferenze 
altrui trincerato dietro l'anonimato del codardo...
Am.

trincerato dietro l'anonimato del codardo...
...disse il codardo mononeurone Amalric Bond... :)
-Stefano