Soldier lifts lid on Guantanamo abuse

Sgt Saar volunteered for Guantanamo in 2002. He was a US Army linguist, an expert in Arabic and had high security clearance. But he says what he saw completely changed his attitude towards the camp, and his country.

There were many more suicide attempts in the camp than the US government has ever admitted, Sgt Saar says. He claims storm trooper-like IRF (initial reaction force) teams were involved in numerous beatings of captives. And of the 600 or so prisoners there, no more than a few dozen were "hardcore terrorists", says Erik Saar.

"The US Government portrays Guantanamo as a place where we are sending the worst of the worst, but this is not true.

"Guantanamo was the beginning of a mistake. It set a precedent in labelling people as enemy combatants, blurring the line between right and wrong.

"You can see it as the seed that may well have led to the naked human pyramids in Abu Ghraib."

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Congratulations America - All you've actually accomplished is breeding more Osama Bin Ladens and Zarqawis...

We do live in interesting times.

Also Read: Dismay at Quran Desecration

I wrote an article on this blog once, When Moderates Switch, which is basically about how the actions of the US of A are making more and more moderate muslims think whether it is right to take up arms against what increasingly appears to be 'The Enemy'.