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Posted on January 17th, 2005 by Ungodly.
Categories: Repugnicans.
After the 9/11 attacks the US Government took Mamdouh Habib into custody as an alleged terrorist. In a US Military Tribunal document made public last week, he stated that after he was arrested in Pakistan he was transferred to Egypt, where he was tortured with beatings and electric shocks and was nearly drowned.
Lawyers for Habib claim that the US sent him to Egypt because local laws would not allow his torture.
Mister Habib has not been charged with any crime in any court, and apparently the John Ashcroft policy of "Innocent until Muslim" applies in his case.
A spokeswoman for the Australian Labor party (pro-labor political parties do exist in some countries) named Nicola Roxon has speculated that there could be some connection between the recently released allegations that Habib was tortured and the sudden decision to repatriate him to Australia.
Mr Habib has been held at exclusive US torture facilities like Guantanamo for 3 years. Has he suddenly renounced false gods and accepted Jaheezus as his personal saviour, rendering him fit for society again? Or has Mr Habib become a liability to the US Government, now that the press in the United States seems to have worked up the nerve to question the legitimacy of Bush Administration torture policies?
Mr Habib has a wife and four children waiting to be reunited with him in Australia. His attorneys are also speculating in public about legal actions he might consider against the Pakistani and Egyptian governments, not to mention the US torture regime.
Left unanswered is what gain the US Government may have achieved by the torture and long imprisonment of a man who was never charged with any crime.
Has Mr Habib received due process under the law?
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