It also proves how jaded I'm becoming. I have a blog http://freedetainees.org and I research different detainees, post stories and actions, letter writing, petitions and so forth. I also post related news.

It's all I do, I'm not working right now, so all my time goes to that. I am either reading, researching, writing, or posting and so.... when I saw his part of the interview I thought that it was in no way strong enough. So many things could have been said and were not. I am afraid a lot of people are going to say ah,, one time deal, he was lying or whatever.

In fact I have seen those types of comments. It makes me want to scream.

So.. it's great that you posted this article and it's good to see the positive comments!

Take Care,
Linda

for those who say "it is not that bad (Kit "backstroke" Bond) or those who say "5 mins would kill you"...

who wants to try it?

for those who cite the findings of a "CSRT" in which "secret" evidence is given...

who wants to subject themselves to the same "rules of court"???

C'mon guys... this is America... land of the free and home of the brave...

or neither.

He could try, but so far all the people who've done so already have been stopped dead in their tracks by the State Secrets evidentiary privilege.

It could have been you. That's how low the standard of evidence was. There's nothing more serious than that, but your mindless grudge against "the mainstream media" won't let you open your eyes.

Things like this make it empirically accurate to say that it is unsafe to be a Muslim in this country.

Maybe Kurnaz was suspended with chains wrap around under his armpits or some other contraption but why not say that? One good lying technique is not to go into details because that can trip you up.

What is the truth in this case? I am not sure but I’m not going to take either side word for it.

There is a sizable majority of Americans who reasonably believe we should not be extending constitutional protections to non-citizens. Yet we continue to be treated to stories such as this and are expected to express outrage. I don't get it.

Many on the right won't touch this because it's a waste of time. Baseless accusations of torture and questions surrounding guilt. The left jumps on this less because of human rights violations but more because it could embarrass the government. I am tired of such nonsense. There are more serious matters to be concerned with.

The Washington example of humane treatment would be to hang those found conducting operations against American troops while not in uniform. And it was done within several days, not several years. The British example was to intern you on a British warship for years, without trial.

An alternate view of Kurnaz is provided here in a 21 Jun 2007 article by John Rosenthal: Guantanamo Tales: Murat Kurnaz in the German Media.(I tried sending the link but was informed that my post was trapped in the spam filter)

With regard to his innocence the following is included:

"Indeed, it is commonly asserted that American authorities had cleared him of all suspicion of connections to terrorism already in 2002. This claim is plainly contradicted by a 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) ruling that on the basis of both classified and unclassified materials upheld his classification as a Qaida-linked "enemy combatant."

With regard to torture:
"It is striking that none of the German media here cited seek to balance their reports by obtaining comment from the U.S. military on Kurnaz's allegations. Presented by World Politics Review with a selection of Kurnaz's claims as excerpted from the Radio Bremen TV and ZDF reports, a Pentagon spokesperson dismissed them as "fictitious." "We should all remember," U.S. Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey D. Gordon continued, pointing to the so-called "Manchester Manual","that al-Qaida training manuals encourage their members to lie, to make abuse allegations in order to garner public sympathy, whether it's for their release or even after they're gone, just to undermine the mission of what we're doing in the United States."