I saw Americans kill terror suspects, says Guantanamo Briton
Friday, February 25, 2005 at 08:56PM One of the four Britons released
from Guantanamo Bay last month said he was tortured by the Americans at
a separate holding camp and spent many hours trussed like an animal
with a bag over his head. Moazzam Begg, 37, who was released by the
Metropolitan Police without charge and reunited with his wife and four
children after three years' imprisonment, also accuses his American
captors of beating two detainees to death at the Bagram air base near
Kabul in Afghanistan. In his first interview since his release, he told
Channel 4 News he "witnessed two people get beaten so badly I believe
it caused their deaths". In February 2003, Mr Begg was transferred from
Bagram to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The former law student and bookshop
owner from Birmingham joined hundreds of other "unlawful combatants",
shackled and dressed in orange jumpsuits, then held without charge,
trial or access to lawyers. For much of his detention he was in
solitary confinement, often exposed to extreme weather and deprived of
basic necessities. Last night he said he was interviewed at Guantanomo
by US security officers who asked him to identify the guards in the
alleged beatings. He told Channel 4: "I saw one body actually being
carried away and the other one, I wasn't sure whether he had been
killed but the photographs the American intelligence officers had
brought confirmed this person had been killed." [more]