Salahuddin Amin update. From Reuters, with thanks to Nicolei:
Salahuddin Amin, who was arrested at Heathrow last week as he stepped off a flight from Pakistan, was charged with "maliciously conspiring with others to cause by explosive substances ... an explosion likely to endanger life".He is accused along with six Britons and a Canadian, who were arrested last year following Britain's biggest anti-terrorism operation since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Police said then that they had seized more than half a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, which can be used to make bombs, in a west London warehouse....
Amin, 29, who appeared at Bow Street magistrates court on Monday, issued a statement after the hearing denying the charges and alleging he had been tortured in Pakistan.
"On April 2, 2004, I surrendered myself to authorities in Pakistan and was detained in the most despicable conditions for 10 months," he said in the statement read by his lawyer Fariquain Shah outside court.
"Throughout my detention I was tortured mentally and physically and subjected to interrogation by British, American and Pakistani intelligence authorities."...
"My only crime was I took it upon myself to provide water, food and shelter to the widows and orphans of the Afghan war," his statement said.
These torture claims, by now routine and with the stories carefuly coordinated, are beginning to bore.
Hmmmm. To be honest, would you trust Pakistani police not to torture? Perhaps the claims are numerous and similar because they are true. I am against Islam and Jihad, and one of the things we should not do is adopt their methods.
We don't the Jihadis don't take prisoners, except for purposes of propaganda, ransom and beheading.
Woe to any kufr Amriki that falls into their hands
Incarceration only fuels their fanaticism, such as in the case of Ayman Zahwahri, who came out of Egyptian jails worse than he went in (which was bad enough).
They will not divulge information, even under interrogation.
And when released from jail or prison, a learned, experienced and even more fanatical Jihadi is set free than before capture and imprisonment.
And of course they return to their cells and/or the internet to share their new knowledge and experience with their brethern.
Thus Gitmo and other prisons and cells become graduate courses for Islamists.
So what is to be done with these Jihadi fighters?
Answer is: What would Muhammad do? Do unto them as they do unto others, follow their own laws and ideology.
The Geneva convention applies ONLY to uniformed combatants, that are soldiers of countries that are signatories to the convention. The Muslim Brother hood, in all of it's derivatives like al Qaeda,is not a country or a signatory.
And BTW,the US did in fact use torture on German Prisoners during WWII, it didn't need to on Japanese, for there was something in the pysche of the Japanese soldier, that if captured,not killed he considered himself disgraced or dead, no longer part of the Japanese nation.
... "He is accused along with six Britons and a Canadian ..."
This always bugs me when I read of these scumbags. They're not Britons or Canadians, or anything else, but Muslim - loyal subjects & soldiers of Islam, til the day they die. They conspired to blow things up and murder people for Islam, not Britain or Canada.
Giaour:
Let me be as simple as I can be. If we are not fighting for the values of humanity and decency, then I am not interested in the fight. So the enemy stinks; the more reason not to wallow in excrement ourselves. End of discussion.