Guards at Guantanamo Bay are racially abusing inmates by calling them "ragheads" and "camel-riders", the family of a British detainee claims.
Shafiq Rasul, who has been held at the base since spring 2002, alleged the abuse in a letter to his family.
According to his elder brother Habib, he wrote: "Everything's OK in Guantanamo. It's just that sometimes some of the guards are OK with us, and some are saying things to us, calling us names like camel-rider and raghead.
Not that anyone is remotely surprised by this, I'm sure. What is surprising is how it got through the net in the first place:
The claim of racial abuse is likely to reignite debate about the treatment of the nine. Mail from the base is censored. In an earlier message seen by the Guardian, from another detainee, a lengthy blacked-out section ended: "... but other than that, everything is fine".
Wake me up when the election's over.
Source: Guardian