Let's just hope the world will love us again now that the dawn of Hopenchange is upon us.
How can we be so cruel as to make someone dance?
The United States does torture, a Pentagon official has admitted for the first time - and that's why the so-called 20th September 11 hijacker was never prosecuted.Meanwhile, 61 of the little darlings detained at Club Gitmo have returned to the battlefield. The ACLU was unavailable for comment.
'We tortured [Mohammed al-] Qahtani,' Susan Crawford, the Pentagon official overseeing tribunals for detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, said in an interview.
'His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case' for prosecution, she told the Washington Post.
Military documents show that Mohammed al-Qahtani’s repeated interrogations included prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, forced nudity and exposure to cold.
He was forced to dance with a male interrogator and to act like a dog, obeying such commands as 'stay,' 'come' 'and 'bark.'
Crawford, a retired judge who also worked in the Reagan administration, is the first senior Bush administration official responsible for reviewing practices at Guantanamo to publicly state that a detainee was tortured.
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed and 43 suspected of 'returning to the fight.'
He said the figures, updated at the end of December, showed a higher rate of recidivism than seen in a previous report showing 37 former detainees as active militants.
He provided no details about the detainees or their countries of origin.
'The overall known terrorist re-engagement rate has increased to 11 per cent' from about 7 per cent, Morrell said.
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