Lakhdar Boumediene: ...I was tortured at Guantanamo...

Lakhdar Boumediene was an aid worker for the Red Crescent when he was swept up in a 2001 raid by Bosnian police and then transferred to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, accused of plotting to attack a U.S. embassy.

• Seven and a half years later, his nightmare his over. The charges against him have been dropped, and in May he was transferred to France as a free citizen, though he has been staying at a military clinic there for physical and psychological observation.
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• In a series of recent interviews, including one published today by ABC News, Boumediene says he was tortured at Guantanamo.
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• "I don't think. I am sure," he said, lifting his arms to show the scars.
• Boumediene says he was physically abused at the U.S. prison, deprived of sleep for 16 days at a time, and then force-fed through a tube in his right nostril after he initiated a hunger strike.
• In his interview with ABC, Boumediene thought he would be fine once the Americans took over.
• "I thought America, the big country, they have CIA, FBI. Maybe one week, two weeks, they know I am innocent. I can go back to my home, to my home," he said. "I give you 2 years, no problem, but not 7 years."
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• He added that he held no grudges against any Americans except for former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and three other officials from their administration.
• "I just, I cry," he told ABC News. "Just I cry, because I don't know my daughters."
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• Watch the interviews:
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/08/lakhdar-boumediene-i-was-_n_212419.html
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• ennaharonline/ The Huffington Post