Indeed. The descriptions of Guantanamo bay that the lads from Manchester and Tipton in the UK have given us made me quite angry.
Jamal Udeen still walks with a stoop because the chains are kept too short for them to straighten up. In the interview I heard he could have been one of my family. His accent sounded as Manchester as theirs. He was nothing to do with the Taliban. He was held and tortured for two years.
I know...he wasnt the only one....but you cannot imagine how much it grieved me to know a fellow Manc was in that hellhole being held by our allies for no good reason. It also pissed me off to hear about the lads from Tipton. fucking Tipton... If anybody in here had any idea what a pitiful little place Tipton is you'd know just how tragic that sounds. Birmingham accents in Guantanamo Bay.
Jamal's story
As a side note. One of the things that moved me when I heard his interview on the radio was that he sounded so ordinary. He sounded tired, but he seemed to have kept his sense of humour even if it had become a little dark. He wasnt spitting anger or anything like that He just seemed to want to tell his story and did so in a fairly gentle and good natured way.