[lit-ideas] Re: Still More about the Lying Prisoner
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:10:25 -0500
From the same NYT article, also available on the IHT:
But Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army's
Criminal Investigation Command, said that the
military believed that Faleh had been the only
prisoner subjected to the treatment shown in the
photo. "To date, and after a very thorough
criminal investigation, we have neither credible
information, nor reason to believe, that more than
one incident of this nature occurred," he said.
Qaissi's lawyer, Burke, countered, "We do not
trust the torturers."
Qaissi seems to have first begun identifying
himself as the hooded man in the fall of 2004, by
which point he had started his prisoners' group
out of a politically charged mosque in Baghdad.
In an article in the February 2005 issue of Vanity
Fair, Donovan Webster identified Qaissi as Haj
Ali, the likely man on the box, based on an
extensive investigation of military records. Soon,
Qaissi was featured in numerous profiles,
including in Der Spiegel, reprinted by Salon, as
well as on the PBS current affairs program
<snip>
The trouble was, the man in the photograph was not
Qaissi.
<snip>
Meanwhile, it is not clear what happened to the
real hooded man, Faleh. An Army spokesman said he
was released from American custody in January
2004. Tribal leaders, and the manager of a brick
factory next to the address where prison records
say he lived, said they had never heard the name.
Besides, they said, detainees often make up
identities when they are imprisoned. Qaissi's
attorneys said they have not attempted to search
for him.
[Gee, I wonder why.]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/18/news/ghraib.php
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