Senator Dick Durbin has compared the American interrogation of a 9/11 conspirator to the evils of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Mohammed al-Qahtani is a Saudi who attempted unsuccessfully to enter the U.S. in order to participate in the September 11, 2001 hijacking of UAL Flight 93, which al-Qaeda tried to crash into either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Al Qahtani was later captured by U.S. forces on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
What horrors did al-Qahtani endure in his Guantanomo Bay interrogation which have so outraged Senator Durbin? Air Conditioning so cold that it made al-Qahtani shiver. Air Conditioning turned off to make him sweat. Durbin summed up by claiming that if we didn’t know this information had come from an FBI Report about American interrogations of terrorists, we might have concluded that it was a description of Nazi Concentration Camps, the Soviet Gulag or Pol Pot’s Killing Fields.
Now, if we didn’t know these remarks had been made by a prominent U.S. Senator, we might have concluded that they were the words of a moral idiot.
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