What’s Going On At Gitmo?

[struggle4progress]

<snip> The authorities at the prison are now force-feeding 18 of the 128 striking prisoners, some through tubes in their noses. The protest this time is not like past ones, which demanded improved conditions at the camp or that guards refrain from dunking the Koran in the toilet. This time, according to the Los Angeles Times, the only national paper today not relying on the wires for this story, the prisoners “are demanding that they be immediately released or granted access to a legal process to defend themselves against blanket allegations that they are terrorists.”

In a Newsday article from this past Saturday, a representative of the strikers, Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian-born British resident, transmitted this statement through his defense lawyers: "People will definitely die." <snip>

This past June, after widespread allegations of abuse (including the Koran in the toilet debacle), President Bush dared reporters to go down and check out the facilities at Gitmo themselves: "And for those of you who are here and have doubt, I suggest buying an airplane ticket and going down and look -- take a look for yourself."

CNN, among a few other news organizations, took him up on the offer, but returned feeling that because of “military ground rules,” it was “nearly impossible for a CNN crew that visited the prison the same day to get a full picture of the prison.” They spoke to no detainees, but heard at least one, yelling behind a wall that, “We take the torture in here." <snip>

http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/1011

[Briar]

1. A crime against humanity

that's what is going on at Gitmo.

[ToolTex]

2. To the Hague with the BFEE and the horse they rode in on!

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