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</font><font face="garamond" size=6 color="#0000FF"><b>Guantanamo Briton
'was tortured'<br><br>
</font><font face="garamond" size=4>Briton released from Guantanamo Bay
claims US guards at the camp in Cuba tortured and abused him<br><br>
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</u></font><font face="helvetica" size=4><b>TERROR OF TORTURE IN CUBA
CAMP</b></font><font face="verdana" size=1 color="#FFFFFF"> <br><br>
</font><font face="helvetica" size=3><b>Jamal says: 'I was beaten by
special squad in show of force. Guards chant while kicking and
punching"<br><br>
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</font><font face="helvetica" size=4><b>MY HELL IN CAMP
X-RAY</b></font><font face="verdana" size=1 color="#FFFFFF"> <br><br>
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I WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME<br><br>
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Guantanamo Briton 'was tortured'<br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=2>Briton released from Guantanamo Bay
claims US guards at the camp in Cuba tortured and abused him<br><br>
</b><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/3504034.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/3504034.stm</a><br><br>
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Jamal Udeen has told the Daily Mirror he went to Pakistan to study Muslim
culture but was taken prisoner after straying into Afghanistan by
mistake. <br><br>
The US, which denies claims of bad treatment at the camp, held him as a
terrorist suspect for two years. <br><br>
Mr Udeen, 37, from Manchester, said he was beaten by men in riot gear
after refusing to have a mystery injection. <br><br>
<b>'Psychological torture'</b> <br><br>
He said the guards had tried to get prisoners to confess to things they
had not done. <br><br>
They were shackled and attached to metal rings on the floor during
interrogation, Mr Udeen claimed in the newspaper. <br><br>
But he said: "The beatings were not as nearly as bad as the
psychological torture - bruises heal after a week but the other stuff
stays with you. <br><br>
"The whole point of Guantanamo was to get to you psychologically.
" <br><br>
<img src="cid:5.2.0.9.2.20040315055546.019f7e28@mail.freedomarchives.org.4" alt="ab7ab.jpg"></font><img src="cid:5.2.0.9.2.20040315055546.019f7e28@mail.freedomarchives.org.5" alt="ab7f2.jpg"><font face="verdana" size=1><b>Recreation
meant your legs were untied and you walked up and down a strip of gravel
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</font><font face="verdana" size=1>Jamal Udeen <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=2>A spokesman for US Southern Command in
Miami, told BBC News Online: "We do treat the detainees in a fair
humane way, according to the Geneva Convention." <br><br>
The US transferred Mr Udeen to the UK on Tuesday, saying he was a low
risk. <br><br>
But Mr Udeen, a father-of-three, said inmates were kept in wire cages
with concrete floors and no protection from the elements. <br><br>
He claims water to the cells was often cut off before prayers so Muslim
prisoners could not wash themselves as their religion instructs them to.
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He told the Mirror their "recreation" time involved being
untied and allowed to walk up and down a strip of gravel. <br><br>
"They actually said: 'You have no rights here'. After a while, we
stopped asking for human rights - we wanted animal rights."
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Mr Udeen, who is from the Moss Side area of Manchester, said he was
chained up and interrogated by the CIA and FBI on 40 occasions and that
later MI5 officers also questioned him. <br><br>
<b>US bombing</b> <br><br>
Mr Udeen told the newspaper: "They would say: 'Are you a terrorist?'
I'd say 'no, get me out of here'." <br><br>
The web designer, who converted to Islam when he was 23, said his
nightmare began four days into his trip to a region of Pakistan on the
border of Afghanistan. <br><br>
When the US began bombing Taleban strongholds he decided to leave and Mr
Udeen said he paid a local truck driver to take him to Turkey - not
realising the route would take him through Afghanistan. <br><br>
He said he was initially arrested by the Taleban as a suspected spy but,
when the Americans arrived, US soldiers took him to a "concentration
camp" before being moved to Cuba. <br><br>
Mr Udeen said he had agreed to tell his story to the Mirror to highlight
the plight of those still being held at the camp. <br><br>
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Meanwhile motoring and theft charges against another of the freed
Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, from Tipton, West Midlands, have been dropped.
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The Crown Prosecution Service said the prosecution was "not in the
public interest". </font> <br><br>
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