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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-13-09 02:44 PM
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Why hasn't this American citizen who was tortured by Bush/Cheney been pardoned yet?
I would really like to hear his story.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1565798,00.html

Was Jose Padilla Tortured?
By Adam Zagorin/Washington Monday, Dec. 04, 2006

Jose Padilla was the first and only American citizen to be held without charge after being labeled an "enemy combatant" by President Bush. A 36-year-old former Chicago gang member, he was arrested in June 2002, following his arrival at Chicago's O'Hare airport. The U.S. claimed he had been sent by al-Qaeda to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb" in an American city. snip

After his lawyers contested the government's right to hold him without trial, Padilla last January was transferred from military to civilian custody. He is set to go on trial Jan. 22 in Miami, along with two codefendants, on charges of supporting terrorism. The charges do not include the "dirty bomb" allegations, which the government appear to have dropped. snip

"The extended torture visited upon Mr. Padilla has left him damaged, both mentally and physically," said one court filing by Orlando do Campo, one of Padilla's lawyers. Padilla's filing also says that he was subjected to sleep deprivation and extremes of heat and cold, forced to stand in "stress positions" that can be painful, and given "truth serum" to make him talk.

The filing includes an affidavit from a psychiatrist who said that he apparently is suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, or PTSD, and cannot adequately assist his own lawyers in preparing his legal defense. According to the psychiatrist's affidavit in the court filing: "When approached by his attorneys, he begs them, 'please, please, please' not to have to discuss his case." The psychiatrist also reported that Padilla "refuses to watch the videos of his interrogation and he refuses to answer questions pertaining to aspects of the evidence in his case."

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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-13-09 02:49 PM
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1. Four words:

OBAMA PARDONS DIRTY BOMBER

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