Elise Cooper points out an LA Times reporter buying an al Qaeda operative's tale of woe. Recently, the British appellate court made public a seven paragraph classified document detailing Ethiopian-born British resident Binyam Mohamed’s military tribunal case. Mohamed was a terrorist who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and charged with plotting to bomb American apartment buildings. He was released by the Obama administration without any trial for fear of torture allegation repercussions, and sent to Britain in 2009. It seems that there is a constant disconnect between who are the “bad guys” and “good guys.” A former operative strongly stated, “People like Binyam Mohamed look like poor innocent victims and not the terrorists they really are.” Just as the British court’s ruling was wrong, so was the way this whole issue was reported in the press.Take for example Henry Chu’s article in the Los Angeles Times. Chu stated twice that Mohamed was mistreated, “while in US custody,” by depriving him of sleep and being shackled during questioning. Wonder if he read the same released document that I did? He was not water-boarded, beaten, and slapped around. How come Mohamed does not complain, as he did in 2005, about being forced to endlessly endure American music such as Eminem? To me, that might be true torture.
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