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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject: Sherwood:"Gitmo Prisoners..Right Where They Belong" |
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I hope they've thrown away the keys....
| Quote: | Firsthand Look at Camp Delta
Gitmo Prisoners Are Right Where They Belong
by Carlton Sherwood
Human Events Online
Jul 22, 2005
The call from the Pentagon couldn’t have been more timely. Just days after London suffered its worst attack on civilians since the Nazi “Blitz,” clearance to tour the military’s Camp Delta prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where 518 “high value” terrorists are being held, had finally come through.
The purpose of the trip was to determine if the so-called “detainees” at Guantanamo are being treated humanely, or whether the accusations leveled by a growing chorus of press, international human rights organizations and even some members of Congress were true—that they were being mistreated, tortured, and sometimes murdered by U.S. military personnel in a manner reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulags.
Since the opening of the detention facilities at Gitmo in 2002, they have come under scrutiny—at the Pentagon’s initiation—from more than 1,000 domestic and foreign journalists, most of them skeptical, some outrightly hostile to the U.S. military.
Eleven U.S. senators, 77 House members and 99 congressional staffers have made fact-finding treks there. An army of ACLU attorneys, Amnesty International investigators and International Red Cross personnel have been given carte blanche access to the prisoners.
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The thought occurs more than once on the tour that those guarding the terrorists feel more threatened than the inmates. And they should. The captive terrorists have powerful, sympathetic friends. Virtually every nation and organization that opposes the Bush Administration’s War on Terrorism, particularly in Iraq, including many in Congress, eagerly wait to exploit any G.I. misstep—real or contrived. What’s more, the terrorist detainees know it and aren’t reluctant to threaten the military guards with revenge.
One detainee told his captor that when he was released he would track him and his family down on the Internet and “cut their throats like sheep.” Assaults by prisoners on guards, ranging from punches and body slams, to throwing objects, even feces and urine, are a near daily occurrence. One detainee has attacked his military guards more than 20 times, swearing each time to kill all of them when he is released.
That may be sooner rather than later if the ACLU has its way.
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