Gitmo detainee: I was groped!

By Michelle Malkin  •  July 15, 2008 09:49 PM

I started the day with a garish Gitmo stunt from the lawyer who exposed his briefs. I end with another one–from bin Laden driver and Gitmo detainee Salim Hamdan, whom the NYPost reports is distressed by an American female interrogator who touched his thigh. Love the Post headline: “Afraid of girls.” Will Hamdan’s lawyer be giving a thigh demonstration? Crikey, I hope not:

Oh, the torture!

Osama bin Laden’s former personal driver, held in Guantanamo Bay, claimed today that he was sexually humiliated by a touchy-feely female interrogator who groped him.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s lawyer says the terror cuddling should force a judge to throw out any statements made to authorities during his confinement.

According to Hamdan, the woman put her hand on his thigh and behaved in an “improper” way that made him uncomfortable as a Muslim.

“She came very close with her whole body toward me,” he testified through an interpreter. “I couldn’t do anything.”

It was unclear if he was turned on by her advances.

Hamdan, a 37-year-old Yemeni, became visibly disturbed when his lawyer asked him about the female interrogator.

Like a child victim of sexual abuse, he refused to specifically enunciate where the woman touched him – instead he pointed to his waist.

“It’s difficult for me to say that,” said Hamdan. “A woman behaved in an improper way with a man, without me doing anything.”

He is scheduled to face trial next week by a US military tribunal on charges of conspiracy and providing support to terrorism. He faces up to life in prison.

***

In other Gitmo sob-story news, a video tape of Canadian militant Muslim teenager Omar Khadr’s interrogations is making the rounds.

Note well:

Retired Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris, 46, a Special Forces soldier who was injured in the firefight at the Afghanistan compound where Khadr was captured, said Tuesday that the release of the interrogation video is a “pathetic attempt at manipulating public opinion.”

“That’s not just a 16-year-old boy snapped up off the streets,” said Morris, who lost sight in his right eye when he was hit by shrapnel. “This is a demonstrated, hardened killer who is not happy with his new perspective on life, which is that he’s going to be spending a long, long time in U.S. custody.”

I wrote about Omar Khadr here. My final word remains the same: Save your tears for Sgt. First Class
Christopher Speer.

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  1. #376837
    On July 15th, 2008 at 9:51 pm, Blind_Mule said:

    It probably gave him an uncomfortable tingly feeling going up his leg like Chris Mathews. :smile:

  2. #376840
    On July 15th, 2008 at 9:54 pm, tbear44 said:

    All Gitmo detainees (and their mouthpieces), should be loaded aboard a slow boat to somewhere very far away, preferably during hurricane season.

  3. #376844
    On July 15th, 2008 at 9:57 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Hey Salim –

    Just so ya know, a former student of mine was killed when one of your moronic pals behaved in a way that was “improper”.

    I suppose you’d prefer to be treated the way he was – blown up while investigating a booby-trapped car and killed – over being groped by a (probably more attractive than anyone you could get) female soldier?

    Maybe that should be your sentence? Groped and then blown up in a booby-trapped car? Better still, let the families of some of our fallen soldiers cut off your appendages one by one until you bleed to death. Certainly more honorable than being groped.

    A little uncomfortable with our sexuality, are we?

    Obama’s got more balls than you, loser.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  4. #376846
    On July 15th, 2008 at 9:57 pm, Blind_Mule said:

    Like a child victim of sexual abuse, he refused to specifically enunciate where the woman touched him – instead he pointed to his waist.

    Sounds like they almost had to give him the doll “Ok,Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s show me where the bad lady touched you” what a wennie. no pun intended. ;smile:

  5. #376847
    On July 15th, 2008 at 9:58 pm, zorro said:

    Was she laughing after she touched him?

  6. #376849
    On July 15th, 2008 at 9:58 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I guess conjugal visits are out of the question.

  7. #376851
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, Gabe said:

    On a related subject: There is a disgusting headline right now on socialist Yahoo bemoaning a killer of an American medic:

    “Weeping 16 year old Guantanamo detainee shown on video”

    Boo-hoo! Yahoo is trying to gin up sympathy for a radical Muslim who killed an American.

    Is there any doubt that liberals DON’T support America and want Islamists to win?

  8. #376854
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, Jeddite said:

    Man, these guys sure have a lot of balls when they’re planting roadside bombs, hiding in decrepit buildings with women and children, or otherwise plotting to harm US soldiers or Israeli citizens. But put them in a prison with female guards/interrogators and the waterworks are so pathetic that teenage girls across the country are sneering.

  9. #376856
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:03 pm, zorro said:

    I wrote about Omar Khadr here. My final word remains the same: Save your tears for Sgt. First Class
    Christopher Speer
    .

    Absolutely. I say set the little punk free near the main gate at Bagram AFB.

  10. #376860
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:10 pm, shooter said:

    Maybe he was groped, he looks like a gay mix of Geraldo Riverspitter and Richard Pryor.

    HE’S A KILLER , LET HIM ROT.

  11. #376865
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:13 pm, madchef said:

    First waterboarding, now cooties, when will the madness stop!

  12. #376866
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:14 pm, Blind_Mule said:

    Gabe said:
    On a related subject: There is a disgusting headline right now on socialist Yahoo bemoaning a killer of an American medic:

    Hmph, Hmph, my daddy made me throw the grenade and kill the infedel and the Americans caught me and gave me a dirty mat to pray on and a used Koran to read and I don’t like steak and potatoes for dinner, it’s just been so much torture. somebody send the Whaaaaambulance please! I feel nothing for anyone 15 or 50 that is associated with alquida

  13. #376869
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:21 pm, right_on said:

    Outrage from a member of a cult who finds it acceptable to have sex with farm animals, and young boys? O-K-A-Y??? It’s just too bad that he actually has an audience in this country (liberals) who also find it reprehensible.

    How dare we not respect his religion (death cult)…how dare we!

  14. #376875
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:27 pm, drivingjack said:

    Hamdan, a 37-year-old Yemeni, became visibly disturbed when his lawyer asked him about the female interrogator.

    He was just mad because he was not in charge. After all, the hookers he had before becoming a devout Muslim let him be “the man”.

  15. #376879
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, Gabe said:

    Blind Mule,

    These Muslim “men” are such sissies. They weep and want Mommy as the 16 year old does (after cowardly killing an American medic in cold blood), and the 37 year Yemeni is traumatized because a woman touched his thigh:

    Like a child victim of sexual abuse, he refused to specifically enunciate where the woman touched him – instead he pointed to his waist.

    “It’s difficult for me to say that,” said Hamdan. “A woman behaved in an improper way with a man, without me doing anything.”

    What a baby! They are as girly as the liberals who have sympathy for them.

  16. #376882
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, rommsey said:

    Did anyone catch the video on Khadr? I did. He plays the tears card as an attempt to win over support of the CSIS agent. Repeatedly in the video, it sounds like he is saying “kill me” while crying. At approximately 4:17 into the film it sounds most clear.

    His defense lawyer knows the only chance of sparring Khadr a heavy sentence is to compel Canadian public opinion to force Ottawa to intervene.

    Harper is doing the logical thing here and it just so happens to be the correct thing.

    It’s very strange that Omar complains he lost his eyes and his feet when both appear fine. It’s very strange for him to scream foul that his medical treatment is sub par.

    Few know that when in a firefight with US troops he had parts of his chest shot out exposing his lungs and his ribcage. He would have died on the battlefield without proper treatment and he would have contracted severe infection in GITMO without proper treatment.

  17. #376885
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm, old trooper said:

    It is clear at this point that We obviously took too many prisoners.

  18. #376890
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:37 pm, WisCon said:

    I pledge to undergo this torture as well and publish my results in a magazine. I hope I survive.

  19. #376902
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:54 pm, Gabe said:

    Let’s not forget what Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said about Guantanamo (and he believes what all liberals believe):

    Second, the Administration has not lived up to its promise to treat detainees humanely. Even with the Administration’s continued stonewalling against any independent investigation into the mistreatment of detainees, we continue to learn of more abuses on almost a daily basis. If American POWs were treated in this way, the Administration would be up in arms. Yet when these actions take place at Guantanamo, the Administration refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. The dangerous implications that this posture has for our own troops and citizens are obvious.

    Yes, if an American POW in Vietnam were touched on the thigh by a Vietnamese woman in the Hanoi Hilton, that would have been torture that would have put American citizens in grave danger at home.

    Funny that we never see any American POW’s in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are always tortured to death. That is why there is no such thing as a POW in a Muslim country.

    Rommsey says:

    It is clear at this point that We obviously took too many prisoners.

    They need to be wiped out and if they have only minor injuries on the battlefield, they need to be executed on the spot. This is better than what Muslims would do: torture and then kill. As Rommsey points out above, Muslim prisoners of war show no gratitude for their humane treatment. If released by foolish liberal judges, they will just turn right around and kill again.

  20. #376907
    On July 15th, 2008 at 10:57 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    You’re joking right? He’ll cut your face off with a lister knife and sing, “Allahu Akbar!” (Since he’s a GITMO detainee I will assume he would) Yet, when a Mata Hari brushes her hand against him he turns into a slobbering pansy. Eat dirt.

  21. #376923
    On July 15th, 2008 at 11:20 pm, wise_man said:

    Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s lawyer says the terror cuddling should force a judge to throw out any statements made to authorities during his confinement.

    According to Hamdan, the woman put her hand on his thigh and behaved in an “improper” way that made him uncomfortable as a Muslim.

    Meh.

    He’s lucky the government hadn’t found a way to get Lynne Stewart* to conduct the “terror cuddling” session on this fine upstanding young muslim instead of Nurse Ratchet who put her hand on his thigh and behaved in an “improper” way.

    *Look closely at that picture.

    Closer.

  22. #376925
    On July 15th, 2008 at 11:28 pm, Coregis said:

    Now we all know the truth – the 72 virgins offered to these lowlifes were…….male!!! No wonder the interrogator made him roll so fast!

    See you in hades, Skippy!!!

  23. #376930
    On July 15th, 2008 at 11:43 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

    There’s nothing worse than a pansy terrorist.

  24. #376960
    On July 16th, 2008 at 12:40 am, mattymatt10 said:

    Unbelievable that world is being held hostage by cry-baby whiners like this. But apparently it’s ok for Muslims to have their way with any girl they want, whether its in Iraq, England, Afghansitan, the Netherlands, Germany, or anywhere else they infest. What pansies. What weenies. What scum.

    I saw two people (can’t be sure they were women) in the full hijab thing at the mall today. Could only make out their eyes and the bottoms of their Nikes. It’s just plain creepy. I can’t think of any other way to describe it. Creepy.

  25. #376969
    On July 16th, 2008 at 1:46 am, prendad said:

    Oh no! Still more horrors coming out of Gitmo. I remember when I was in the military, they told us about the “women’s thigh torture”. It made us tremble, and sweat, and think unspeakable thoughts of. . .ah,. . .never mind.

  26. #376971
    On July 16th, 2008 at 2:03 am, DesertLover said:

    ok … here’s the secret plan that is guaranteed to immediately force all the islamofascist terrorists to cringe in absolute fear and surrender or commit suicide …

    we send in 200,000 naked women rubbed down with bacon grease and accompanied by 200,000 well trained dogs herding 500,000 large hogs through every street and market in the middle east … with the US military blocking all the exits … :twisted:

    sarc off/

  27. #376972
    On July 16th, 2008 at 2:15 am, pgtips said:

    If being “touched” inappropriately is all these morons can accuse Gitmo off, I’d say the guys and girls down at Gitmo are doing a fantastic job.

    Like other posters here, I find it highly ironic that a man who drove a cold blooded killer around is afraid of a woman touching his thigh. Sissy.

  28. #376993
    On July 16th, 2008 at 4:42 am, Papa Louie said:

    Osama bin Laden’s former personal driver, held in Guantanamo Bay, claimed today that he was sexually humiliated by a touchy-feely female interrogator who groped him.

    If Christopher Hitchens has recovered from his water-boarding adventure, perhaps he could be persuaded to undergo this form of interrogation and determine if it rises to the level of torture. If the avowed atheist shouts out the name of his creator while being groped, then we will have reason to believe that the pain he is enduring is even more excruciating than his water-boarding experience.

  29. #377025
    On July 16th, 2008 at 6:50 am, Doug said:

    It sounds like there must not have been ANY torture since this is the worst they could come up with.

    The press should refuse to carry such antics. But alas ….

  30. #377051
    On July 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am, Hannibal said:

    This from a guy who has a picture of Dolly the Sheep pasted in his locker? A guy who hides copies of Animal Husbandry Quarterly under his mattress? Who would have thought!

  31. #377058
    On July 16th, 2008 at 8:14 am, JDinTX said:

    The only thing she didn’t do that she should have is grab him and hook him up to battery cables for a little more jingling. We could always do what the terrorists do. Get the info from prisoners we need and then behead them. These whiners need to quit complaining. We are trying to win a war and protect our troops. Do whatever is necessary to insure our safety.

  32. #377062
    On July 16th, 2008 at 8:21 am, Mrs. Happy Housewife said:

    “It’s difficult for me to say that,” said Hamdan. “A woman behaved in an improper way with a man, without me doing anything.”

    Aw, poor fella. He likes to make the first move.

  33. #377073
    On July 16th, 2008 at 8:39 am, rambler said:

    Oh, poor baby…..next time waterboard him!

  34. #377089
    On July 16th, 2008 at 8:51 am, GladzKravtz said:

    If this Hamdan weenie gets sent back home to his hut, he’ll beat the daylights of his 14 year old wife.

  35. #377148
    On July 16th, 2008 at 9:48 am, Die Hippie, Die said:

    “She came very close with her whole body toward me,” he testified through an interpreter. “I couldn’t do anything.”

    It was unclear if he was turned on by her advances. :lol:


    Eet was terrible. In al-Qaeda we are permitted to have eentercourse only with a headless body…or a young goat. Allahu akbar, yada, yada, yada.

  36. #377158
    On July 16th, 2008 at 9:59 am, Barry F. said:

    On July 15th, 2008 at 11:20 pm, wise_man said:

    Oh, geez! I almost threw my coffee up, when I opened that picture of Lynne Stewart! You really need to post a warning with something liek that. *blech*

  37. #377172
    On July 16th, 2008 at 10:10 am, Die Hippie, Die said:

    Salim Ahmed Hamdan said:

    I am telling you, that Lynne Stewart ees one hot goat. Allah willing, I would take the hair from her cheen and knit a new turban. Allahu akbar, yada, yada, yada.

  38. #377174
    On July 16th, 2008 at 10:12 am, walterc said:

    Buck up mohammad, at least we didn’t use the dreaded “panties on the head” torture that we used in Abu Graib. Now THAT was torture. Even made the guards squeamish.

    What a puss. If we really wanted to torture him, we would have had a naked Cindy Sheehan put her hand on his . . .oh never mind it’s just too gross to even finish.

  39. #377194
    On July 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am, AliasK said:

    In situations like this I like to apply what I call the McCain test – If you can still raise your arms over your head afterwards, it ain’t torture.

  40. #377564
    On July 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    If Christopher Hitchens has recovered from his water-boarding adventure, perhaps he could be persuaded to undergo this form of interrogation and determine if it rises to the level of torture.

    OK, he’s probably still in shock from holding his breath for 20 seconds or so, so I’ll volunteer to let “Combat Barbie” give me the torture test…

  41. #377697
    On July 16th, 2008 at 3:37 pm, gandolphxx said:

    Waste of time taking prisoners, time to move on with life.

  42. #396921
    On August 6th, 2008 at 1:41 pm, jim8427 said:

    Understand, this SOB is not afraid of a woman touching his thigh. He’s using our fear of being accused of torture against us. He believes that we are so desperate to clear ourselves of allegations of torture that we will do anything to clear our name… including either letting him go, or going easy on him. In other words, he’s using our legal system against us.

    I’m with the earlier commenter though. We’re taking too many prisoners. This dirtbag never should have made it off the battlefield.

    Jim C

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