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The Draft Diggs committee is attempting to make some political hay from the connection between Diggs Brown and a terror suspect named Mohammed Jawad.
Jawad was released from Guantamo Bay this week and returned to Afghanistan. He was accused of throwing a grenade that badly injured American soldiers in 2002. Brown encountered Jawad shortly after the attack, while serving as a Special Forces captain.
Now Brown, a former Fort Collins City Council member, wants to run for Congress but can’t jump in officially because he’s on another active-duty mission. So some of his supporters have formed a draft committee to promote his Republican candidacy for the 4th Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Betsy Markey. You can see the Draft Diggs take on the Jawad release here:
http://www.draftdiggs.com/2009…
“Yesterday, the Obama administration released that grenade thrower. That kind of puts ‘politics as usual’ into some perspective, doesn’t it? Diggs Brown has been there. He has looked evil in the eye. Now, more than ever, as the Obama administration releases these terrorists and apologizes for who we are as a nation, we need someone who knows the stakes.”
That is one possible interpretation of Jawad’s release.
Another possible interpretation is that Jawad is free because all the evidence against him was obtained through torture by Afghan police acting with the tacit approval of the U.S. military, apparently including then-Capt. Diggs Brown.
For more details, see my Coloradoan blog: http://bit.ly/AYBsx
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…standing by while a teenage kid is tortured for false confession. Nice.
Shame on you.
if it tied electrodes to your genitals while threatening to kill your family until you confessed to being Osama bin Laden’s mother.
This draft diggs brown website is the epitome of completely SHAMELESS self promotion and somehow people should be ashamed for calling it for what it is.
“I saw evil in the eye”. Give me a fucking break.
Torture is a stain that can only be eradicated by sunshine. Those who defend it as “necessary for our security” or “but they were TERRORISTS!” bring shame on all of us. People who enable torture with their explicit or implicit approval are already shameful.
If Diggs can reasonably show that his statement “The police here have their own way of getting information out of prisoners, and we did not interfere with them,” was not a tacit approval of torture, I will retract.
Otherwise, I stand by the statement. If anything, it is too mild.
but considering Jawad was arrested in Kabul and not in the countryside, I seriously doubt CPT Brown and his SF Team were anywhere near either the alleged incident or at the interrogation site where Afghan authorities threaten to kill him and his family.
What is clear is that a MINOR – a pre-teenager was tortured (or harshly interrogated, for those of you on this site that are ethically-impaired) at Gitmo for years. He’s suing the US, and we deserve to pay him whatever he wins.
My point is that the GOP Yellow Elephant Brigade members that posted this stupidity don’t know a damn thing about operations in AFPAK, or even what the hell CPT Brown is doing over there.
It just Chickenhawk rhetoric will no basis in fact. THAT’s the Shameful part that should be condemned.
I assumed that the juxtaposition on the “Draft Diggs” website meant that his statement and the Jawad case were related.
If Brown or the “Draft Diggs” website convincingly disavows this connection, I will also (partially) retract.
However, he is on record for saying that the (too timid IMO) steps Obama has taken to open things up makes us “less safe”. I disagree completely. Torture has made us less safe, and less American. Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.
It’s here:
http://www.draftdiggs.com/2009…
He wasn’t near the grenade-throwing, but “looked evil in the eye” when the youth was interrogated.
So, based on his own blog post, when he got Jawad in for US military interrogation, he’d already been threaten by the Afghan Police (secret and otherwise) that they would murder his family and him if he did not confess.
So I’ll guess the Spooks and the US Military interrogators went with the coerced confession, and probably got him to repeat it.
As far as his steely-eyed observation about how martyrs cleanse themselves before their act of sacrifice, how much body hair does a 12-year old have?
Volunteering to go fight against men a generation younger than he is.
Contributing to our economy as a small business owner.
Working on the Ft. Collins city council to improve his community.
We need more guys like this in America today.
requires heroism? You’re setting the bar a little low there, RJ.
Was Jawad a 10-dollar Taliban who only fought against Coalition Forces because it paid and because he’d be shot if he refused?
Did Jawad piss off someone in his village, who made a quick $100 for turning him over as A_Q to Coalition Forces?
Or was he a warrior fighting for his tribe because that what the Pashtun do at age 13+?
In any event, was he just another stupid kid who was radicalized by being locked up in Bush’s Torture Camp by the Sea, or because he was a radicalized Islamic warrior?
Don’t know…and I doubt that anyone else does besides Jawad. Damn sure not the 101st Typewriter Brigade in the 4th district.
In any event CPT Brown probably did not have much to do with what happened to Jawad after he was captured and sent to the rear. SF and the rest of the Special Ops troops stay out in the woods during comabt operations.
The point was that this kid was held for 8 years based on a confession obtained through torture. Apparently, our side knew of the torture.
Then, when he’s released, the Draft Diggs committee releases a statement attacking the Obama administration.
Interpret it as you like, but to me it looks like a cheap political attack that ignores the facts, implicitly endorses torture, and denigrates the rule of law.