Americans torture a Swede

My thanks to The Kirby File for directing my attention to this story:

Mehdi Ghezali, a Swedish citizen born in Algeria, was studying Islam in Pakistan prior to the invasion of Afghanistan. In the chaos of the invasion, Pakistani villagers discovered that they could receive hefty rewards if they turned foreigners over to the American forces. One can imagine what sort of tales these villagers peddled. Ghezali found himself caught up in this mess, and thus spent two-and-a-half years undergoing grueling treatment at Gitmo:

"They put me in the interrogation room and used it as a refrigerator. They set the temperature to minus degrees so it was terribly cold and one had to freeze there for many hours -- 12 to 14 hours one had to sit there, chained," he said, adding that he had partially lost the feeling in one foot since then.

Ghezali said he was also deprived of sleep, chained for long periods in painful positions, and exposed to bright flashes of light in a darkened room and loud music and noise.

"They forced me down with chained feet. Then they took away the chains from the hands, pulled the arms under the legs and chained them hard again. I could not move," he said.

After several hours his feet were swollen and his whole body was aching. "The worst was in the back and the legs," he said.

Naturally, the American captors were slow to understand that their bought-and-paid-for info might be faulty. One can only imagine what other horror stories will come out.