Khadr Used as Mop to Clean His Own Urine

Khadr's allegations of mistreatment by the US are written in an 8 page affidavit. Some of the allegations include threat of rape and being used as a mop to clean up urine in his cell. National Post

As horrible as these things might seem I have no sympathy for Khadr. I doubt anything he testified to will be considered as torture

NEW YORK -- Omar Khadr alleges serious mistreatment by his U.S. captors -- including that he was threatened with rape and was used as a mop to clean up urine on his cell floor -- in his first public comments since he was detained on an Afghanistan battlefield in 2002.

The Toronto-born accused terrorist, who was 15 when the U.S. government claims he lobbed a hand grenade that fatally injured a U.S. special forces soldier, also says he told a Canadian delegation in 2003 that the Americans "would torture" him -- so he told them "whatever they wanted" to hear.

The first-person allegations are contained in eight typed pages of an affidavit Mr. Khadr, now 21, swore for submission to a war-crimes commission the United States established to try terror suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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In one untouched passage, Mr. Khadr recalls how, at age 16, he was used as a mop after he had been cuffed in various contorted positions for at least an hour, and urinated on himself and the floor.

"Military police poured pine oil on the floor and on me," Mr. Khadr says. "And then, with me lying on my stomach with my hands and feet cuffed together behind me, the military police dragged me back and forth through the mixture of urine and pine oil on the floor."

He says he was refused a shower before being returned to his cell, and denied a change of clothing for two days. The same thing happened again "a few weeks later," he adds.

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Mr. Khadr says he was threatened with sexual violence on several occasions at Bagram.

"Interrogators threatened to have me raped, or sent to other countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan or Israel to be raped," he says.

He says he faced 42 interrogations during three months at Bagram, before being transferred to Guantanamo.

Mr. Khadr says he and other detainees being transferred to Guantanamo were denied food and drink for two nights and a day "so that we would not have to use the bathroom on the plane."

Upon arrival at the U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba, he says he recalls one military official saying: "Welcome to Israel."

"They half-dragged, half-carried us so quickly off the plane that everyone had cuts on their ankles from the shackles," he says. "They would smack you with a stick if you made any wrong moves."

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