User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Asif Iqbal (terror suspect)

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'''Asif Iqbal''' is a young [[United Kingdom|British]] citizen who was held as a terror suspect in the [[United States|American]] prison at the US naval base at [[Guantanamo Bay]]. Iqbal was released in March 2004. In August 2004 Iqbal, [[Ruhal Ahmed]] and [[Shafiq Rasul]], all from [[Tipton, United Kingdom|Tipton]], compiled a report on their abuse and humilation while in US custody. In it, according to the [[BBC]], the three describe horrific abuse, including: *They were repeatedly punched, kicked, slapped, forcibly injected with drugs, deprived of sleep, hooded, photographed naked and subjected to body cavity searches and sexual and religious humiliations. *Tne American guard told the inmates: "The world does not know you're here - we would kill you and no-one would know". *Mr Iqbal said when he arrived at Guantanamo, one of the soldiers told him: "You killed my family in the towers and now it's time to get you back. *Mr Rasul said an MI5 officer had told him during an interrogation that he would be detained in Guantanamo for life. *The men said they saw the beating of mentally ill inmates. *Another man was left brain damaged after a beating by soldiers as punishment for attempting suicide. *The Britons said an inmate told them he was shown a video of hooded men - apparently inmates - being forced to sodomise one another. *Guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets and tried to force them to give up their religion The appointment of General [[Geoffrey Miller]] coincided with the introduction of new, harsher, treatment, including, [[short-shackling]] and the forced shaving off of beards. In the report they allege that those who representated themselves as from [[MI5]], or the British Foreign Office, seemed unconcerned with their welfare. In the end the abusive interrogation lead the three to falsely confess to being the three previously unidentified faces in a video that showed a meeting between [[Osama bin Laden]] and [[Mohammed Atta]], even though they were in Tipton when the meeting occurred. ==External links== *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3089395.stm Five of nine Britons released from Guantanamo Bay], [[BBC]], March 9, 2004 *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3533804.stm Britons allege Guantanamo abuse], [[BBC]], August 4, 2004 {{UK-bio-stub}} [[Category:U.S. detainees|Iqbal]]