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________________________________ Former CIA Detainee Moazzem Begg
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[http://mathaba.net/news/humanrights/i/moazzambegg500.jpg] British
Citizen Moazzam Begg, gave eloquent testimony in front of the opening
session of the War Crimes Tribunal Commission

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Mathaba) In a very compelling and eloquent
testimony in answer to questions by Commission members of the War
Crimes Tribunal which is taking place here.

After years of isolation and unjust imprisonment in Afghanistan and
Guantanemo by the U.S. and British intelligence agencies and military,
the testimony of Muazzam Begg, a young British Asian Muslim, is
almost a miracle, given his sanity and eloquence after his ordeals,
which is a testimony to his strength of character and faith.

He gave very detailed testimonies which are clear to observers and
psychologists, can only be born of truth and a willingness to answer
all questions and give testimony in complete openness and honesty.
He said that seeking justice is something everybody wants.

In Britain, Mr Begg has a case against the British intelligence for
violation of his human rights. He said that places such as this
commission, are the only places that the victims of torture and
extraordinary rendition have as recourse and that this offers hope
of justice for those victims.

Judges of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal who will hear the
cases that pass the commission of inquiry, are Dato' Abdul Kadir
Sulaiman, a retired Malaysian Federal Court judge, Tunku Sofiah
Jewa, Mr Francis A. Boyle, Prof. Salleh Buang, Prof. Niloufer
Bhagwat, Mr Alfred L Webre and Prof. Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem
Faruqi.

The Commission Deliberations which opened this morning will include
testimonies of 7 witnesses and is to continue all day today. Tomorrow
October 31st the Hearing of Application for an Advisory Opinion is
to be filed by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission.

In testimonies given by Moazzam Begg it is clear that British
Intelligence were heavily involved in the interrogation of prisoners
and abductees, including at Guantanemo Bay, the U.S. base in U.S.
occupied Cuban territory.

He said that he can produce for the Commission details of his case
against the British government, in answer to a question about the
involvement of the British in the horrific human rights abuses that
took place in U.S. custody.

92% of people captured were not involved with Taliban or Al-Qaidah
or any battle field, 2% were accused to have something to do with
Al-Qaidah and 8% involvement with the Taliban. The vast majority
of the 92% were handed over as a result of people wanting to claim
the bounties offered by the U.S. for any foreigners given to them
within Afghanistan.

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The Star Online<http://thestar.com.my/default.asp> > Published:
Friday October 30, 2009 MYT 7:08:00 PM

9yr-old boy tortured, says former Guantanamo detainee

KUALA LUMPUR: A British Muslim detained for three years at the
controversial Guantanamo Bay prison manned by the United States,
revealed that the youngest detainee he knew of was a nine-year-old
boy who was also tortured like the rest.

Ruhal Ahmedo?=s story was among more accounts of atrocities committed
against the detainees at Guantanamo, told before an open commission
hearing which began Friday on the sidelines of an international
conference to criminalise war.

The testimonies before the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission
Hearings will be submitted to a tribunal in conjunction with the
Criminalise War Conference and War Crimes Tribunal 2009 spearheaded
by former Malaysian prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Dr Mahathir said that the tribunalo?=s decision would be forwarded
to the United Nations for further action.

Malaysian lawyer Zainur Zakaria headed the six-member panel Friday
that heard the experiences of seven people who spoke of almost daily
physical and emotional torture by the US military over alleged ties
to al-Qaeda or the Taliban movement.

Ruhal, now 27, was detained in 2001 after he and three Pakistani
Britons -- Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul and a friend Monir -- travelled
to Pakistan for a wedding.

In a surge of idealism, they decided to see the situation in
Afghanistan, which being an al-Qaeda stronghold was being bombed
by US forces in retaliation for the Sept 11 attacks.

o?=Once there, with the loss of Monir in the chaos, we were captured
by Northern Alliance fighters and were later handed over to the
Americans who transported us to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay,o?=
he said.

o?=I was interrogated hundreds of times by the FBI, CIA and even
MI5, beaten, and subjected to continuous torture, sexual degradation,
forced drugging and religious persecution,o?= he said.

With their hands and feet chained and in a foetal position on the
floor, the three were accused of making a video of Osama bin Laden
in Afghanistan.

The three -- now known in the media as the o?=Tipton Threeo?= --
were released in 2004 without being charged after they were forced
to sign a paper to admit their involvement in making the video.

Another British Muslim, Moazzam Begg, 41, said moved by the plight
of the Afghan people under the conservative Taliban regime, he went
to Kabul with his wife and three young children in mid-2001 to start
a school for basic education and to provide water pumps.

They fled to Islamabad in Pakistan when the allied forces attacked
Afghanistan in October that year, and he was arrested in January
2002 by Pakistani police and the CIA, and held in a windowless
cellar at the Bagram air base for nearly a year.

o?=The United States government considered me an enemy combatant,
and claimed that I had trained at al-Qaeda terrorist camps in
Afghanistan. I was not charged with any crime nor allowed to consult
any legal counsel during that time,o?= said Moazzam who was one of
nine British Muslims held there.

In January 2005, he was released with three others, also without
any charges produced against them.

Rape and abuse of women and children by US troops were almost a
daily affair over at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, claimed
Iraqi-born Jameela Abbas Hameedi.

Jameelah, 54, was arrested in the Iraqi capital in January 2004
with her entire family, allegedly for supporting and funding forces
against the US invasion.

o?=The US Army even beat me with tubes and a plastic chair until
it broke. A plastic shard entered my leg and caused a bad infection.
I had to undergo surgery without any anaesthetic,o?= said Jameelah,
who was also allegedly stripped to her underwear in the o?=black
roomo?= of the prison and bashed against a wall.

Her only daughter and nephew were beaten and tortured naked for six
months until Jameelah admitted that she supported the resistance,
she claimed.

She also witnessed other abuses like sleep deprivation, forced
stress positions, forced nudity, the use of dogs to scare and bite
prisoners, death threats and sexual abuse.

Jameelah and her family were freed in July 2004 without any charges
brought against them. -- Bernama

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