Guantánamo inmate tortured by al-Qaeda and entombed by the US

Exactly seven years ago this week in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, a 26-year-old Syrian Kurd who had spent the previous two years being tortured by the Taleban begged me to ask the newly arrived US troops in the city to help him.

The Americans did come — and sent Abdul Rahim Abdul Razzak al-Ginco to Guantánamo Bay. Today he is still imprisoned there. He claims that after being taken into US custody he was subjected to stress positions, sleep deprivation and threatened with dogs. He arrived in April 2002 and has never been charged.

Taleban captured him and forced him to work at

For three months he was tortured and beaten by the Taleban and al-Qaeda, given electric shocks, and had the soles of his feet beaten. They filmed a confession from him that he was a Mossad spy

insistent about one thing: could I ask the Americans to help them?