Patterico's Pontifications

12/13/2006

More Torture at GTMO

Filed under: General,Terrorism,War — Patterico @ 5:25 pm



Via Penraker (via an e-mail from See Dubya) comes a link to an Insight Magazine article on Guantanamo:

Al Qaeda might be on the run in Afghanistan, but Osama bin Laden’s agents are in the driver’s seat at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Officers tell of daily attacks by al Qaeda inmates against U.S. military personnel, who are ordered not to respond. The officers have also been ordered to fulfill the religious, cultural and even entertainment needs of the inmates, including providing Arabic translations of Harry Potter.

. . . .

Guards have been routinely pelted with feces by inmates and face physical attacks from al Qaeda detainees. In May, al Qaeda detainees organized an ambush to stop a search of cells for contraband medication following two suicide attempts. Prison authorities have responded by providing inmates with a huge Arabic library, a modern hospital, sporting facilities and satellite television. Officials said Harry Potter in Arabic was one of the most popular books in Camp Delta.

Well, sure. I imagine they’re quite fond of the character called Nearly Headless Nick.

Read it all, and marvel at how similar it is to the account provided by Stashiu on this blog.

5 Responses to “More Torture at GTMO”

  1. How hard are reservations at Gitmo to come by? Can I book two weeks for my next sabbatical?

    nk (4d4a9d) — 12/13/2006 @ 5:49 pm

  2. Geez Nk, I dunno… I haven’t read anything about mints. No mints on the pillow no go! Yeeesh

    paul from fl (001f65) — 12/13/2006 @ 6:48 pm

  3. It helps if you’re a Muslim, nk.

    Neville Chamberlain (80a4fa) — 12/13/2006 @ 6:55 pm

  4. It seems the military has reconsidered its policies regarding the treatment of GTMO detainees.

    DRJ (6dbcaa) — 12/16/2006 @ 4:14 pm

  5. The Democracy Project urges all Americans to send a snail mail Christmas card this year to our troops at Guantanamo, Cuba. Sadly, the terrorists get more Christmas mail than our troops:

    “Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a sometime blogger here at Democracy Project and a personal friend. Gordon writes frequently and passionately about American forces serving around the world, and the email below, sent from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tells of a neglected band of brothers who receive fewer Christmas cards from the American people than those stationed at other locales: the guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Worse, they receive more abuse from the press, in spite of the documented fact that they are subject to constant abuse from the terrorists they guard.

    As if that isn’t enough, last Christmas the terrorists held there received no fewer than 14,000 pieces of mail at Christmas, and they’re expected to receive 16,000 this year. All while our troops there are, for the most part, overlooked even by those of us here at home who support their mission.

    Gordon gives the address to which you may send cards at the end of his essay, but here it is again:

    Any Trooper, JTF GTMO, APO AE 09360”

    Let’s help make this a Merry-er Christmas for our GTMO troops. Let’s send mail.

    DRJ (a5fa81) — 12/18/2006 @ 12:56 pm


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