(Via BuzzMachine) Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / Freed detainees cite rewards, beatings

[...]Seated cross-legged on a floor of the Kabul Police Department jail yesterday, nearly all of the former detainees enthusiastically praised the conditions at Guantanamo and expressed little bitterness about losing a year of their lives in captivity, saying they were treated better there than in three days in squalid cells in Kabul. None complained of torture during questioning or coerced confessions.


After they were set free, however, two men who had remained silent earlier hesitantly began to recount being punished for protesting indignities to their captors. The two both admitted to having been employed by the Taliban as drivers.


Conversations with 13 of the men, first in prison and then in a restaurant after their release, paint a picture of Guantanamo as a place where a detainee may be treated well, reasonably, or badly, depending on whether Americans consider him a terrorist, and whether he protests perceived humiliations that other prisoners let pass.

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