Much ado about NOTHING
It seems that the anti American crowd sure wants to jump on the rumors and myths of massive mistreatment of detainees (terrorist) beingn held in Gulags (detention camps).More on the absured allegations of the United States running Gulags later.
It seems that the detainee that first claimed Americans flushed the Qu'ran down the toilet has retracted the allegation of this happening, but do the self rightouse leftist and anti American press bother to run with this as the front page story. Hell no, they would much rather continue to show their support for those who would see harm befall America. (UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE SHALL FALL)
By Will Dunham
Thu May 26, 4:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI agent in 2002 that U.S. personnel there had flushed a Koran in a toilet retracted his allegation when questioned this month by military investigators, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
"We've gone back to the detainee who allegedly made the allegation and he has said it didn't happen. So the underlying allegation, the detainee himself, within the last two weeks, said that didn't happen," chief Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told a briefing.
An FBI document, dated Aug. 1, 2002, contained a summary of statements made by the detainee in two interviews with an FBI special agent at the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The names of the detainee and the agent were redacted.
"The guards in the detention facility do not treat him well. Their behavior is bad. About five months ago, the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Koran in the toilet," the FBI agent wrote.Di Rita did not identify the detainee or release his exact words.
Another senior Pentagon spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said the detainee "indicated, when asked about the desecration, that he was not knowledgeable of anything."
The American Civil Liberties Union released the FBI document and a series of others it obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act. In other documents, FBI agents stated that Guantanamo detainees also accused U.S. personnel of kicking the Koran and throwing it to the floor, and described beatings by guards.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050526/us_nm/security_guantanamo_koran_dc_6
Amnesty International Calls Gitmo a 'Gulag'
By Paisley Dodds, The Associated Press
Published: May 25, 2005
LONDON—Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it “the gulag of our time” as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.
The 308-page report accused the United States of shirking its responsibility to set the bar for human rights protections and said Washington has instead created a new lexicon for abuse and torture. Amnesty International called for the camp to be closed.
“Attempts to dilute the absolute ban on torture through new policies and quasi-management speak, such as ‘environmental manipulation, stress positions and sensory manipulation,’ was one of the most damaging assaults on global values,” the annual report said.
[Just where in the hell are these bastards when Americans are murdered, dragged from their vehicals, beheaded, tortured on video and the burned desecrated bodies left hanging from bridges. The fact that the lack of knowledge of what a true Gulag is and was is amazing. To think that the have the cajones to compare Gitmo to a Gulag is just dumbfounding.]
“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time,” Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan said.
“There’s a myth going around that there’s some kind of rule of law being applied,” said Rob Freer, an Amnesty official who specializes in detention issues.
Amnesty acknowledged the human rights deficiencies came with a rash of terrorist actions, including the televised beheadings of captives in Iraq.
While criticizing the detention mission at Guantanamo, Amnesty said one sign of hope was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June that let prisoners challenge the basis of their detention. It also said it was encouraging that Britain’s high court lords ruled on the indefinite detention without charge or trial of “terrorist suspects.”
“The challenge for the human rights movement is to harness the power of civil society and push governments to deliver on their human rights promises,” Khan said.
http://www.sacunion.com/pages/world/articles/5001/
[ During their claim of Gitmo the new Gulag they never specify exactly how it is a Gulag other then by saying that torture and mistreatment accures there. Well if it is a true Gulag how come so many detainees are still alive I want to know. I want to know why they are not forced into labor and activities that benifiet America as a Soviet Gulag forced its people to aid the Russian government. If Gitmo is a true Gulag why are there not massive amounts of people being grabbed in the middle of the night and dissapearing from society and dieing in this Gitmo Gulag. Why isn't there a run an body bags at Gitmo then? Why? Why, I will tell you why. It is because the terrorist sympathisers who hate America and all we stand for while hideing behind those who defend their right to be complete A#$ Holes want to rally antiAmerican atitudes around the world, that is why. For every lie being told and mistruth that these so called members of the fourth estate spew forth, ever more damage is done to putting an end to this cvonflict. They are like children with a stick. They can't understand why the hornets keep stinging them but they take their stick and hit the nest.
Once again the truth is coming out and their cry of foul is much ado about nothing]
It seems that the detainee that first claimed Americans flushed the Qu'ran down the toilet has retracted the allegation of this happening, but do the self rightouse leftist and anti American press bother to run with this as the front page story. Hell no, they would much rather continue to show their support for those who would see harm befall America. (UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE SHALL FALL)
By Will Dunham
Thu May 26, 4:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI agent in 2002 that U.S. personnel there had flushed a Koran in a toilet retracted his allegation when questioned this month by military investigators, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
"We've gone back to the detainee who allegedly made the allegation and he has said it didn't happen. So the underlying allegation, the detainee himself, within the last two weeks, said that didn't happen," chief Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told a briefing.
An FBI document, dated Aug. 1, 2002, contained a summary of statements made by the detainee in two interviews with an FBI special agent at the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The names of the detainee and the agent were redacted.
"The guards in the detention facility do not treat him well. Their behavior is bad. About five months ago, the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Koran in the toilet," the FBI agent wrote.Di Rita did not identify the detainee or release his exact words.
Another senior Pentagon spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said the detainee "indicated, when asked about the desecration, that he was not knowledgeable of anything."
The American Civil Liberties Union released the FBI document and a series of others it obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act. In other documents, FBI agents stated that Guantanamo detainees also accused U.S. personnel of kicking the Koran and throwing it to the floor, and described beatings by guards.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050526/us_nm/security_guantanamo_koran_dc_6
Amnesty International Calls Gitmo a 'Gulag'
By Paisley Dodds, The Associated Press
Published: May 25, 2005
LONDON—Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it “the gulag of our time” as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.
The 308-page report accused the United States of shirking its responsibility to set the bar for human rights protections and said Washington has instead created a new lexicon for abuse and torture. Amnesty International called for the camp to be closed.
“Attempts to dilute the absolute ban on torture through new policies and quasi-management speak, such as ‘environmental manipulation, stress positions and sensory manipulation,’ was one of the most damaging assaults on global values,” the annual report said.
[Just where in the hell are these bastards when Americans are murdered, dragged from their vehicals, beheaded, tortured on video and the burned desecrated bodies left hanging from bridges. The fact that the lack of knowledge of what a true Gulag is and was is amazing. To think that the have the cajones to compare Gitmo to a Gulag is just dumbfounding.]
“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time,” Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan said.
“There’s a myth going around that there’s some kind of rule of law being applied,” said Rob Freer, an Amnesty official who specializes in detention issues.
Amnesty acknowledged the human rights deficiencies came with a rash of terrorist actions, including the televised beheadings of captives in Iraq.
While criticizing the detention mission at Guantanamo, Amnesty said one sign of hope was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June that let prisoners challenge the basis of their detention. It also said it was encouraging that Britain’s high court lords ruled on the indefinite detention without charge or trial of “terrorist suspects.”
“The challenge for the human rights movement is to harness the power of civil society and push governments to deliver on their human rights promises,” Khan said.
http://www.sacunion.com/pages/world/articles/5001/
[ During their claim of Gitmo the new Gulag they never specify exactly how it is a Gulag other then by saying that torture and mistreatment accures there. Well if it is a true Gulag how come so many detainees are still alive I want to know. I want to know why they are not forced into labor and activities that benifiet America as a Soviet Gulag forced its people to aid the Russian government. If Gitmo is a true Gulag why are there not massive amounts of people being grabbed in the middle of the night and dissapearing from society and dieing in this Gitmo Gulag. Why isn't there a run an body bags at Gitmo then? Why? Why, I will tell you why. It is because the terrorist sympathisers who hate America and all we stand for while hideing behind those who defend their right to be complete A#$ Holes want to rally antiAmerican atitudes around the world, that is why. For every lie being told and mistruth that these so called members of the fourth estate spew forth, ever more damage is done to putting an end to this cvonflict. They are like children with a stick. They can't understand why the hornets keep stinging them but they take their stick and hit the nest.
Once again the truth is coming out and their cry of foul is much ado about nothing]
