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Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla is mentally unfit to stand trial on terrorism charges and physically unable to tell his lawyers what happened to him in a U.S. military prison, doctors who examined him for the defense said in court on Thursday.The doctors testified that Padilla, held by presidential order for 3-1/2 years in a military brig without being charged, is also unable to tell his lawyers anything about the time he spent in Afghanistan and Egypt, where the government alleges he conspired with Islamist terrorists to maim and murder people.
If asked to review taped conversations that will be used as evidence, he breaks into a sweat, hunches over and rocks back and forth, the doctors said. […]
Hegarty and a clinical forensic psychologist who examined Padilla for the defense, Dr. Patricia Zaph, said he was mentally impaired, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and convinced he should help the government rather than his own lawyers.
A Bureau of Prisons doctor who examined him at the court's request, however, found him fit for trial.
Prosecutors deny Padilla was abused and accuse the defense of raising the mental health issue in order to turn the proceedings into "a referendum on his past treatment in military custody."
Nee, klar. Soweit kommt's noch, daß da jemand vor Gericht darüber redet, wie er gefoltert wurde.