The Guantanamo Files: The first book to tell the story of every man trapped in Guantánamo, by the heroic Andy Worthington, the foremost authority on Guantanamo Bay. He works tirelessly to document and disclose the dark secrets of our
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(image: Brennan Linsley/AP. U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January, 20, 2009)
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"US is not at war with Islam,"
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MORE THAN HALF OF GITMO PRISONERS
ON HUNGER STRIKE
(Reuters) - The U.S. military is sending additional medical personnel to the Guantanamo prison camp, where more than half the captives have joined a hunger strike to protest their open-ended detention, a camp spokesman said on Monday.
"It's escalated because the men are desperate and they've hit a breaking point," said Carlos Warner, a federal public defender from Ohio who is part of a team representing 11 Guantanamo prisoners. "Really what is behind all this is the president abandoned his promise to close Guantanamo. The men know that, they're desperate."
"I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture." - Barrack Obama, 2008 |
Miserable cretin and former president George Bush cancelled a Switzerland trip to evade indictment.
“The reach of the Convention Against Torture is wide – this case is prepared and will be waiting for him wherever he travels next. Torturers – even if they are former presidents of the United States – must be held to account and prosecuted." |
GUANTANAMO: BEYOND THE LAW
McCLATCHY
An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad. Read more...
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. He looks like a broken man.
“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” - Thomas Paine
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The Guantánamo “Suicides”
New evidence suggests that the Obama administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006. Scott Horton reports in Harper's magazine.
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FIRE JOHN YOO!
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