A Turk with German residency held at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay for more than four years was kept blindfolded and in chains on his flight home in a U.S. plane, his lawyer said on Friday. | “The Americans are incorrigible... He was returned home in chains, humiliated and dishonoured to the very end...” |
"The Americans are incorrigible, they have not learned a thing. He was returned home in chains, humiliated and dishonoured to the very end by the Americans," lawyer Bernhard Docke said. "It was a giant American transport aircraft and he was alone in it with 15 U.S. soldiers. He was chained down, his feet were chained, and his eyes covered."
| Maybe because he's dishonorable and should be humiliated at every turn? |
Murat Kurnaz was unable to attend a news conference in his home town of Bremen on Friday, Docke said, because he is still suffering from the effects of his captivity at Guantanamo on Cuba, where the United States is holding hundreds it suspects of backing Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda or the Islamist Taliban. Kurnaz was dubbed the "Bremen Taliban" because he was born in Germany and was in the process of becoming a German citizen when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. |