Guantanamo conditions 'like a Nazi camp'

[Khattab]

4 January 2007
FBI: WE SAW SHOCK GUANTANAMO ABUSE
Agents tell of torture at terror camp


FBI agents have blown the whistle on sickening abuse of prisoners at the notorious Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba.

A dossier compiled by agency bosses on guards' conduct has been released in full for the first time.

It tells how prisoners suspected of being al-Qaeda sympathisers and held without charge were subjected to horrifying physical and psychological torture.

Some guards allegedly dressed as priests to "baptise" Muslim prisoners.

A detainee was subjected to a degrading lap dance by a topless female guard and others had their prayers interrupted by guards splashing fluid on their faces and telling them it was menstrual blood.

An inmate was badly beaten after revealing he had recently had abdominal surgery.


And several were placed in unheated, darkened cells and interrogated for 24 hours non-stop.


One FBI witness reported being told that then US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved this technique.


The FBI report says the agency surveyed all 493 of their personnel assigned to the camp and determined no FBI agent or support staff was involved.


The abuse was carried out by other government agencies or outside contractors, it says.


The report states: "On several occasions, witnesses saw detainees in interrogation rooms chained hand and foot in foetal position to floor with no chair/food/water.


"Most urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours or more."


One of the FBI staff at the camp also saw a detainee "with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape".


In another incident, an interrogator allegedly squatted over the Koran and a German shepherd dog was ordered to "growl, bark and show his teeth to the prisoner". Another detainee was draped in an Israeli flag.


The US military prison at Guantanamo was set up to hold suspected al-Qaeda terrorists or sympathisers in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.


The FBI office of general counsel ordered the "special inquiry" in September 2004 but the results were not made public.


They have only now released the documents in response to a freedom of information request by the American Civil Liberties Union.


They stressed the report had also been vetted by the department of defence.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm...name_page.html

[Woodrow]

Sadly this is almost typical behavior of prison guards world wide. Abuses occur in prisons at the hands of guards.

The outrage here is that the prisoners at Guantanamo should be considered POWs and not criminals. They should be accorded the same treatment as out lined in the Geneva convention. The guards should not be "Guards" they should be upstanding soldiers and should treat the prisoners as soldiers and not as villians.

Hopefully the FBI report will bring this all out into the open and some needed changes are made immediatly. Plus many of the "Prisoners" should be returned to their homelands as they pose no military threat. Those that were incarcerated for "criminal" reasons belong in their own countries and should face trial by their own governments.

[sudais1]

Sadly this is almost typical behavior of prison guards world wide. Abuses occur in prisons at the hands of guards.

The outrage here is that the prisoners at Guantanamo should be considered POWs and not criminals. They should be accorded the same treatment as out lined in the Geneva convention. The guards should not be "Guards" they should be upstanding soldiers and should treat the prisoners as soldiers and not as villians.

Hopefully the FBI report will bring this all out into the open and some needed changes are made immediatly. Plus many of the "Prisoners" should be returned to their homelands as they pose no military threat. Those that were incarcerated for "criminal" reasons belong in their own countries and should face trial by their own governments.

true, I fail to understand why the UN has not spoken of this yet they follow other dumb conflicts :?

[Ninth_Scribe]

4 January 2007
FBI: WE SAW SHOCK GUANTANAMO ABUSE
Agents tell of torture at terror camp

FBI agents have blown the whistle on sickening abuse of prisoners at the notorious Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba.

And praise to them who have come forward to speak. There are even more who will come forward too! Records and minutes are being released, one after the other... like coffee being poured into the cups of the people. That's the whole problem with light. Everyone seeks it, but when they stand before it, it reveals all their hidden things... even the tiniest of flaws!

It must s--k for everyone to be able to see where it is they're standing... but the time has come to find our way back. Prefererably, before it's too late.

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[FBI]

:sl:

What Have I been upto.

[skhalid]

Well...these problems never end !!!

[Akil]

The Bush Administration needs to decide whether they are criminals and fall under criminal law or are prisoners of war and fall under the Geneva conventions. Holding them as neither in some sort of political/legal limbo dehumanizes them and deprives them of justice, which a democracy should never be guilty of.

[FollowingAlhuda]

Yeahh a better proove is the movie : The road to guantanamo!

[shible]

:sl:

Accused terrorist David Hicks' US lawyer has described conditions at Guantanamo Bay, where he has been held for five years, as "like a Nazi concentration camp".

The 31-year-old father of two met his lawyers inside the newly-created Camp Six at the US military prison in Cuba.

The Adelaide-born Muslim convert showed signs of mental deterioration, his Australian-based lawyer David McLeod said after the meeting.

"He shows all the signs of someone who has been kept in isolation for a very long time," Mr McLeod said.

"He's not in very good shape, the conditions are pretty ordinary."

Hicks has been detained by the US military without trial since he was captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan in December 2001. He was sent to Guantanamo Bay the following month.


here is the link


Guantanamo conditions 'like a Nazi camp'

[S_87]

:sl:
may Allah ease their suffering!

[lavikor201]

They are gasing and then burning prisoners there into ashes!?!

[KAding]

Am I to assume the prisoners also look like this after a few years:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/72-3220.jpg

Edit: not sure if the picture is allowed, so I'll go with a link instead