Guantanamo detainee, held for seven years, describes the torture he endured. And, he is sure it was torture.

ABC News secured an interview with Lakhdar Boumediene, who was held in Guatanamo for over seven years. He was arrested in Bosnia in the weeks after September 11th and eventually handed over to the U.S. military. Boumediene won his case before the U.S. Supreme Court against the Bush administration and was freed by a federal judge. He talked to Jake Tapper (video of the interview here). The U.S. did torture:

Boumediene said the interrogations began within one week of his arrival at the facility in Cuba. But he thought that his cooperation, and trust in the United States, would serve him well and quicken his release.

"I thought America, the big country, they have CIA, FBI. Maybe one week, two weeks, they know I am innocent. I can go back to my home, to my home," he said.

But instead, Boumediene said he endured harsh treatment for more than seven years. He said he was kept awake for 16 days straight, and physically abused repeatedly.

Asked if he thought he was tortured, Boumediene was unequivocal.

"I don't think. I'm sure," he said.

Boumediene described being pulled up from under his arms while sitting in a chair with his legs shackled, stretching him. He said that he was forced to run with the camp's guards and if he could not keep up, he was dragged, bloody and bruised.

He described what he called the "games" the guards would play after he began a hunger strike, putting his food IV up his nose and poking the hypodermic needle in the wrong part of his arm.

"You think that's not torture? What's this? What can you call this? Torture or what?" he said, indicating the scars he bears from tight shackles. "I'm an animal? I'm not a human?"

More confirmation of the very disturbing practice of torture at Guantanamo. That place has to be shut down. It's a symbol of everything that was wrong under the Bush/Cheney regime. V