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...prepared to release the transcripts, as required by a Freedom of Information Act filing, military officials reviewed them, looking for "potentially controversial and embarrassing items" about which their superiors should be notified in advance, according to a Pentagon memo that TIME has seen. To make sense of the latest Gitmo controversies, here is a look at Guantánamo during the war on terrorism. -By Daniel Eisenberg and Timothy J. Burger...
...April 30 letter, lawyer Marc Falkoff, who represents Yemeni inmate Abdulmalik Abdulwahab Al-Rahabi, says statements made by an important witness against his client "appear to have been obtained by use of torture." Falkoff's letter says the witness is the same detainee whom FBI agents at Gitmo, in internal e-mails disclosed earlier this year, called #63 and who they said was intimidated with a dog and showed signs of "extreme psychological trauma" after being subjected to "intense isolation for over three months...
Koranic defilement is a recurring Islamic concern. The first recorded prefiguring of the alleged insult at Gitmo may have been in the 1200s when Mongols invading Baghdad were said to have used Koran pages as toilet paper. But as early as the 700s, notes UCLA Islamic-law expert Khaled Abou El Fadl, jurists commenced a centuries-long debate over the just punishment for spitting on it, impaling it or feeding it to goats...
Halim survived, remarkably, and I learned more of his troubled story. He had been in detention for almost a year. He'd attended college in Indiana and he spoke English, but he'd barely talked when he first arrived in Gitmo. He always had a dazed look, as if he didn't know where he was. Eventually the camp psychologist put the Bahraini on some heavy meds. Halim would fake taking his medication each day and hide the pills in his cell, planning to store up enough so he could take them all at once and end his life...
...Show and Ask at Gitmo Your report confirms that the military used sexual tactics at the Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold-and where will it end?-we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor. George Hunsinger McCord Professor of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey...