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Ramadan at Guantánamo: Nightly force-feedings

by RAINman on 26. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

At Guantánamo during Ramadan, the guards strap hunger striker detainees into the force-feeding chair at night.
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
The Miami Herald    Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Here’s a new twist in the U.S. military’s Islamic sensitivity effort in the prison camps for suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base:
Military medical staff are force-feeding a secret number [...]

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The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice

by RAINman on 13. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

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The New Statesman    -  10 August 2010
After eight years in Guantanamo, the last western ‘enemy combatant’ faces a deeply flawed trial.
Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a firefight that [...]

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As Khadr ‘Trial’ Looms, Military Rules Disputed Confessions Admissible

by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Prosecutors Insisted Abuse Didn’t Effect Confessions
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum – August 09, 2010
The Obama Administration’s military “trial” against Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay is expected to begin as soon as Tuesday, following a ruling form a military judge that the confessions made by Khadr are admissible.
Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was 15 years old when [...]

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When it comes to waterboarding, labels matter

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2010 in Opinion

The press’s failure to call waterboarding torture impedes honest discussion of the darkest years of the Bush presidency
Dan Kennedy
guardian.co.uk –  6 July 2010
On 18 September 1945, barely a month after the Japanese surrender had brought second world war to a close, a sickening story appeared on page two of the New York Times. Headlined “Shanghai [...]

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20% failure rate in Saudi Gitmo rehab programme

by RAINman on 22. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Middle East Online – 20 June 2010
Twenty-five former Saudi detainees of Guantanamo prison make contacts with militants.
RIYADH – Twenty percent of ex-Guantanamo prisoners who graduated from Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation programme made contacts with militants, a senior Saudi counter-terror official said on Saturday.
Twenty-five of the 120 former detainees at the US “war-on-terror” prison committed [...]

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NYC judge rules Guantanamo detainee must face strip searches to protect security interests

by RAINman on 22. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press – 17 June 2010
NEW YORK — A Guantanamo Bay detainee awaiting trial in a federal civilian court cannot evade strip searches that require him to expose his private areas because security would be compromised, a judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the written ruling Monday and it was [...]

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Robert Fisk: Silenced for speaking the truth about Guantanamo

by RAINman on 18. May, 2010 in Opinion

Independent - 15 May 2010
I began my column last week with the words “We know all about Guantanamo”. I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press – until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for “justice” in this execrable place – I have been [...]

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The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle

by RAINman on 20. Jan, 2010 in Analysis

By Scott Horton
Harpers -  18 January 2010
1. “Asymmetrical Warfare”
When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo “shall be closed as soon [...]

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Confronting an evil past << RAINnote: long but worth reading

by RAINman on 16. Sep, 2009 in Analysis

The post-9/11 U.S. torture programme was a collective failure and a mistake because it was wrong.
JORGE HEINE

FRONTLINE    Volume 26 – Issue 19 :: Sep. 12-25, 2009     INDIA’S NATIONAL MAGAZINE

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Teenage inmate leaves Guantanamo

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2009 in General

BBC   Monday, 24 August 2009
One of the youngest detainees at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay has been released and sent home to his native Afghanistan, his lawyers say.
They said Mohammed Jawad was detained at 12 in 2002 and is now 19, although the Pentagon disputed his age.
Mr Jawad had been accused of injuring [...]

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From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?

by RAINman on 11. Jun, 2009 in Analysis, Opinion

 
by Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a journalist and historian, based in London. He is the author of The Guantánamo Files, the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees in America’s illegal prison. For more information, visit his blog here: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/
 
Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
 
Let’s face it, when it comes to Guantánamo, [...]

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Video: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News

by RAINman on 10. Jun, 2009 in Videos NEW!!!

 
Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was Tortured

By JAKE TAPPER, KAREN TRAVERS, and STEPHANIE Z. SMITH
 
ABC News Internet Ventures        June 8, 2009
 

For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: “10005.”
 
These were the digits assigned to him when he arrived at the detention center at Guantanamo [...]

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