guantanamo detainees

The actor/musician Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def, aka Dante Smith, volunteered to undergo the same force feeding procedure as the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay who are on hunger strike. What your hard earned tax dollars are paying for isn't pretty...

I am sure most of you are aware that there are prisoners held in Guantanamo that have been cleared for release yet have been stuck in a legal quagmire for many years. These prisoners have suffered torture and other abuse during their detention and they are being denied their due process. In...

P3UZPytFUAo more information: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/wikileaks-guantanamo-detainee-omar-khadr-shame-on-you-stephen-harper-gov-of-canada/ Distressing to watch, NSFW.

White House Drafts Executive Order for Indefinite Detention (Insert sarcastic comments about Change We Can Believe In here) In fairness to the president, congress including his own party did block his efforts to close GITMO and to bring GITMO detainees to the US to stand trial. And congress...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111207508.html Cliffnotes version: 1) Too much political opposition to trial 2) WH worried left won't approve of a military tribunal 3) Solution: Hold KSM indefinitely without trial Problem with that...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/david-hicks-memoir-guantanamo-my-journey-released/story-e6frf7l6-1225939424757

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/10/07/2010-10-07_error_by_trial.html Guess what the outcome of this so-called trial will probably be? ;)

House panel says "no" to prisoner transfer: I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this until today. No way Gitmo gets closed in Obama's first term.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece I can see where this might be more appropriate for the Politics forum, but if detaining "terrorists," known to be innocent, to establish a link between 9/11 and Iraq isn't a conspiracy theory, I don't know what is...

For what it's worth. For the moment, this is single-sourced news or maybe it's a late and lame April 1st joke. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/040110a.html The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged...

'The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle' http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368 “taking their own lives was not necessary, but it certainly is a good P.R. move.” - Colleen Graffy, a deputy assistant secretary of state. “They have no regard for human...

Scott Horton has an excellent article in Harper's. Chilling stuff. A description of the beating given to one: On June 9th, 2006, [Aamer] was beaten for two and a half hours straight. Seven naval military police participated in his beating. Mr. Aamer stated he had refused to provide a retina...

So there has been plenty of outcry about the horrors of bringing the inhuman savages housed at Gitmo onto venerated US soil. This will cause their fellow terrorists to descend upon us like a biblical plague, fighting their way to the wilds of Northern Illinois to free their brethren.... The...

A two-part interview with Scott Fenstermaker, lawyer for two (and possibly three) of the Gitmo detainees Part 1: uNJoHih3e0Q Part 2: BN6Y4uPr_mM

Apparently not All of the victims family members have unanswered questions: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/17/gitmo.families/index.html Of course this is an article from the MSM.:rolleyes:

The one area where I held out some hope for the Obama administration (despite the wiretap backsliding pre-election) was in the area of the detainess in Guantanamo, etc. The annouced closure sounded good, but I was somewhat suspicious that the base would not actually get closed on the deadline...

US urges rejection of Guantanamo Uighurs case Does anyone want to defend this?

Once again, Obama has the choice of doing it the way "human rights advocates" suggest or the Bush way, and he's chosen the correct course: I'll give Obama credit; he's much more of a pragmatist than I realized. Preventative detention seems like a solid tool for use in the war on terror, and I...

There is no written version of this CNN-Report yet, but even if we heard of all the torture methods beyond waterboarding in the past in occasional reports, a full scale discussion about all those other methods didn't emerge yet. If it does, it might be the final blow to the GOP...

Once again reality strikes Obama. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/us/politics/02gitmo.html?_r=2&hp

This episode courtesy WaPo:

While I'm always somewhat skeptical of released detainees claiming horrific abuse--seeing as how it is a good way for them to get some fame--there is documented and incontrovertible evidence that abuse of detainees did happen on a number of occasions. What gets me is that an excuse, that is...

Dang! Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief So now what?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/guantanamo.hearings/index.html My prediction: Military tribunals against top honchos like KSM proceed, the shorties get released as a gesture of goodwill.

The US military are about to pronounce the results of the show trial in Guantanamo Bay. '...Lawyers for Mr Hamdan said not one witness had testified that Mr Hamdan played any part in terrorist attacks. They questioned the fairness of the trial, which began on 21 July. "This is a classic case of...

Reports are that Military may owe royalties to performers for using their songs at Guantanamo to break Al Queda prisoners. Interrogaters used a mixture of heavy metal, children's songs and commercial jingles along with temperature variations, sleep deprivation to break captured Al Queda...

Groups to Help Defend Detainees at Guantánamo From the Miami Herald:

Someone leaked the GITMO operations manual. I didn't have the time to read it yet, but I thought I share it with you for those who're interested in internal procedures...

Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham Is First Member Of Military Panel To Challenge Guantanamo Bay Hearings Kiddies, can you say "Kangaroo Court"? There's really a simple solution to this: Try them in civilian courts, not military. Let the evidence be seen by civilian juries. These people (those who are...

Just read this judgement in an article in Jyllands-Posten. A translation of the first few sentences: A military tribunal judge dismisses case against Guatanamo captive as the prisoner isn't classified as an "illegal" fighter. The consequence could be that all cases against Guantanamo captives...