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| Algerian Saber Lahmar © AFP Patrick Bernard |
AFP
BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - An Algerian said Monday he was suing US former president George W. Bush in French courts for his detention as a suspected terrorist for eight years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Saber Lahmar, 42, said he was picked up by US agents in 2001 in Bosnia, where he worked teaching Arabic, and held in the US camp for eight years "like an animal" and released without charge in 2009. He now lives in France.
US authorities accused him of planning to fight against US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
He told AFP he was tortured in the camp by techniques including sleep deprivation, electric shocks and simulated drowning.
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