The prisoner [Omar] complained of having a hose stuck up his nose until he was drowning, electric shock torture and being placed in a room painted with black and white stripes, containing a glass wall, behind which were snakes.

Mr Stafford Smith added his client had been told his wife would be
sold into prostitution when he was first taken into custody.

This is all further proof that Amnesty’s usage of the term Gulag, to describe to the US prison archipelago across the Middle East and elsewhere, was correct. And even if the head of Amnesty may be accused of a degree of hyperbole, no doubt engendered by the horrors described by former Gitmo inmates, he can in no shape or form be accused of downright mendacity, the likes of which we have been exposed from Rivkin and his neocon coalition in recent years.

It is vitally important that more and more of these tragic accounts are reported, so that the body of evidence may one day overwhelm lackies of the Bush war and mold public opinion and, who knows, shape future policy decisions.

I remember Chomsky uncovering a subtle ambiguity in one the Bush Admin’s chosen epithets for its military escapades around the world. He said that the term “Enduring Freedom” contained a subtle wmabiguity in that to endure can also mean to suffer. I did laugh…

Incidentally, returning to the former Uzbek colleague I had, non one has heard anything from him since his deportation…S’very sad. I also began reading a Swedish/Uzbekistan trade deal document the other day. I’m stunned by all of this.