Unrelated.
Gulet Mohamed, a regular 19-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia, has been arrested, beaten and questioned by Kuwaiti security on behalf of the US government. Why? He’s Muslim and has been traveling to the Middle East.
He hasn’t been charged with any crimes and Kuwaiti officials have admitted to having no interest in him and only holding him “at the behest of the United States government.”
The kid’s lawyer, Gadeir Abbas, said:
Mohamed’s case is an example of “proxy detention,” Abbas said. Instead of the US detaining and interrogating Mohamed, or using extraordinary rendition to send him to be tortured in Egypt or Syria, the government is “taking one step back and trying to accomplish the same goal: the unlawful torture and detention abroad of an American citizen by a country that is known to engage in human rights abuses,” Abbas argued.
Scary stuff. Looks like the “war on terror” is going well.
