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From Times Online
August 4, 2004

Guantanamo trio report on abuse by SAS and US guards

BY TIMES ONLINE AND PA NEWS

Three Britons who were held at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years say that they suffered a catalogue of torture and abuse similar to those at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

In a report published today, Ruhal Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal say that they were beaten, shackled, hooded, forced to strip naked and deprived of sleep by their American guards during their detention at the prison camp in Cuba, and in Afghanistan.

They also accuse British personnel of colluding in the maltreatment.

Mr Ahmed claimed that after his capture in Afghanistan in November 2001, he was interrogated by a man who identified himself as an SAS officer, while an American guard pointed a gun at his head threatening to shoot.

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The men - who were freed from Guantanamo in March this year and later released without charge by British police - said that their complaints to Foreign Office officials about their treatment were ignored.

One American guard at Guantanamo Bay told the inmates: "The world does not know you're here - we would kill you and no-one would know," according to the report.

Mr Rasul said that an MI5 officer told him during an interrogation that he would be detained in Guantanamo for life.

The 115 page report, entitled Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, was complied by lawyers for the men and has also been released in the United States.

Mr Iqbal said that on his arrival at Guantanamo, one of the soldiers told him: "You killed my family in the towers and now it's time to get you back."

They said they were punched, kicked and slapped. They were hooded and forced to strip naked, the report claims.

"I could hear dogs barking nearby and soldiers shouting 'get 'em boy'," said Mr Rasul.

The men claim that conditions at the camp got tougher when Major General Geoffrey Miller took over the facility. He has since left Cuba to run prisons in Iraq.

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