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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: Should innocent people be kept in Guantanamo? |
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We've already seen hundreds of people released despite the initial insistence they were the 'worst of the worst' terrorists... here is another disturbing story.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901755.html
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he Uighurs' (pronounced weegurs) detention by the U.S. military, after being sold for bounty by Pakistanis in early 2002, has long attracted controversy. The men had just arrived from Afghanistan, where, they said, they had received limited military training because they opposed Chinese government control of their native region. But they said they never were allied with the Taliban or opposed to the United States, and had fled to Pakistan only to escape the U.S. bombing campaign.
By 2005, U.S. military review panels determined that five of the 18 captured Uighurs were "no longer enemy combatants," but they continued to be held at the Guantanamo Bay prison until their release last year. The panels did not reach that conclusion about the other 13, though all had given similar accounts of their activities during the reviews, according to declassified transcripts of the sessions.
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In Camp 6, the Uighurs are alone in metal cells throughout the day, are prohibited for the most part from conversing with others, and take all their meals through a metal slot in the door, lawyer P. Sabin Willett said in his affidavit, which was based on what he was told during his visit Jan. 15-18. They have little or no access to sunlight or fresh air, have had nothing new to read in their native language for the past several years, and are sometimes told to undertake solitary recreation at night, he said.
"They pass days of infinite tedium and loneliness," according to Willett's court filing. One Uighur's "neighbor is constantly hearing voices, shouting out, and being punished. All describe a feeling of despair . . . and abandonment by the world." Another Uighur, named Abdusumet, spoke of hearing voices himself and appeared extremely anxious during Willett's visit, tapping the floor uncontrollably, he said.
The account matches another offered by Brian Neff, a lawyer who in mid-December visited a Yemeni imprisoned in Camp 6. "Detainees in Camp 6 are not supposed to talk to others, they are punished for shouting, and if they talk during walks outside they will be punished," Neff said in an e-mail yesterday. "We are extremely concerned about the . . . conditions of Camp 6 -- in particular, the fact that the detainees there are being held in near-total isolation, cut off from the outside world and any meaningful contact." |
I don't understand how people can defend Guantanamo while eliding stories like this. We took the word of some Pakistani bounty hunters? We know they never took up arms against us, but we still lock them up in terrible conditions? WTF is all this about? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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I already posted something about the Chinese at Guantanamo a few months ago.
The US governement was totally played by the Chinese government. They accepted these 'terrorists' from China, and it turns out they are from one of their most oppressed ethnic groups...people who are victims of the very human rights abuses that earns China much deserved criticism from the international community. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Chances that a Guant�namo detainee was turned over to Coalition forces by an Afghan or Pakistani citizen: 9 in 10[Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University Law School (Newark, N.J.)]
Average reward that leaflets airdropped over their countries promised for every �terrorist� turned in: $5,000[Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University Law School (Newark, N.J.)] |
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Number of private firms that have been hired since 2002 to recruit soldiers for the Army: 7[U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)]
Average amount the firms are paid per recruit: $5,700[U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)] |
Seems to me, the U.S. gov't has the same recruitment policy for both military and prison recruitment. Fill the quota! Guilty or innocent? No matter......
And let's not forget Hicks, the Australian. Now 6 years on and still no formal charges against him. The Australian govt should be brought down for letting this happen to a citizen. My god!
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