US soldier accidentally beaten at Guantanamo
(BBC News)
"Sean Baker says he received injuries from fellow soldiers while posing as a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay camp for al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects. He blames officers for the botched exercise, and says he suffers seizures as a result. The army had previously said Mr Baker's injuries occurred in the line of duty. Mr Baker, 37, was a member of a military police unit based in Kentucky when it deployed to Guantanamo Bay in 2003. In January of that year he volunteered to act as an uncooperative detainee for training purposes and put on an orange prison jumpsuit. He argues that other participants were not made aware that he was a soldier. During the exercise, Mr Baker says, military police choked him and slammed his head against the floor. Mr Baker says he told them he was a US soldier but the beatings continued until the jumpsuit was yanked down, revealing his uniform"