The jail, the torturer, and the most unlikely defence witness

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The jail, the torturer, and the most unlikely defence witness

"Two years after US soldiers used bolt-cutters to break Moazzam Begg's shackles and release him into British custody, America has found a new way to torment the man leading the campaign to close his former prison."

"Attorneys acting for one of the guards accused of torturing captives held in the "war on terror" asked Mr Begg to be their client's character witness. It seemed an extraordinary request to make of a man who is still coming to terms with the three years of psychological and physical torture he endured in the notorious prisons of Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and later at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

"The guard in question is Damien Corsetti, a specialist Bagram interrogator who even among his colleagues was known as the "king of torture"."

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2186508.ece