10 FACTS ABOUT GUANTANAMO- From Pentagon Report

[Jcrowley]

UPDATED Sept. 14, 2006

-The detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility include bin Laden’s bodyguards, bomb makers, terrorist trainers and facilitators, and other suspected terrorists.

-More money is spent on meals for detainees than on the U.S. troops stationed there.  Detainees are offered up to 4,200 calories a day.  The average weight gain per detainee is 20 pounds.

-The Muslim call to prayer sounds five times a day.  Arrows point detainees toward the holy city of Mecca.

-Detainees receive medical, dental, psychiatric, and optometric care at U.S. taxpayers’ expense.  In 2005, there were 35 teeth cleanings, 91 cavities filled, and 174 pairs of glasses issued.

-The International Committee of the Red Cross visits detainees at the facility every few months.  More than 20,000 messages between detainees and their families have been exchanged.

-Recreation activities include basketball, volleyball, soccer, pingpong, and board games. High-top sneakers are provided. 

-Departing detainees receive a Koran, a jean jacket, a white T-shirt, a pair of blue jeans, high-top sneakers, a gym bag of toiletries, and a pillow and blanket for the flight home.

-Entertainment includes Arabic language TV shows, including World Cup soccer games.  The library has 3,500 volumes available in 13 languages — the most requested book is “Harry Potter.”

-Guantanamo is the most transparent detention facility in the history of warfare. The Joint Task Force has hosted more than 1,000 journalists from more than 40 countries.

-In 2005, Amnesty International stated that “the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times.”

From the Department of Defense
Office of Public Affairs – OSD Writers’ Group

Word document at the top of the web site:
http://defenselink.mil/home/dodupdate/

[Dogmudgeon]

1. That's very nice

Now, how many of them have been tried in a court of law with the evidence heard by a jury of their peers?

Keep Harry Potter. Give them justice -- punishment to the guilty, and freedom to the innocent.

--p!

[Jcrowley]

2. Dental work?

Was any of this dental work done after the prisoners were tortured and their teeth were knocked out?  Were any of those pairs of glasses issued to people whose faces were kicked in?

Just like all of the other facts about Guantanamo, torture, rendition, secret CIA prison camps and well, pretty much everything else that these liars and war criminals have done over the past six years.

[Blackthorn]

3. "High-top sneakers are provided. "

Well it's all fucking fine and dandy then. I'm packing my bags now. I mean, playing basketball WITHOUT high tops is torture.

[stillcool]

4. more psy-ops leakage....

or was this targeted?

[Generic Other]

5. They want Harry Potter? Well, hell they've been converted...

I'm supposed to believe that they traded their korans for Harry's magic wand?

Piffle.

Did this come from the Pentagon's creative writing group?

[mmonk]

6. !

:rofl:

[CarlVK]

7. They contradicated themselves in their first point.

- The detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility include bin Laden’s bodyguards, bomb makers, terrorist trainers and facilitators, and other suspected terrorists.

I may not have graduated Law School, but if you are sure you have the guilty parties already incarcerated ("bin Laden’s bodyguards, bomb makers, terrorist trainers and facilitators") then why in the world would you later refer to them as SUSPECTS?

Which is it?

[Jcrowley]

8. It's Club Med

If we put aside your astute point, that pesky report from Amnesty Int'l and Reality.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. So I bet all the rightwingers who are going to be sending this around

as spam would JUST LOVE to be incarcerated 10,000 miles from home without trial and with no idea of when they'll be released, yah? What would they have to complain about, what with Harry Potter videos and free dental care?

[mmonk]

10. Or

55% of the detainees are not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the US or its coalition allies.

Only 8% of the detainees were characterized as Al Queda fighters. Of the remaining detainees, 40% have no definitive affiliation with either Al Queda at all and 18% have no affiliation with either Al Queda or the Taliban.

Only 5% of the detainees were captured by US forces; 86% of the detainees were captured by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance and handed over to the US when the US was offering large bounties.

Camp Iguana-For juveniles. Some as young as 7 and 10 years old when brought in.


Sources: The Case for Impeachment-The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, St Martin's Press, by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky (who is litigating for Habeus Corpus for 300 detainees).

Discussions on Book TV (C-Span) by the authors.

[notadmblnd]

11. it sounds like a regular country club...

i'm sure the detainees are enjoying themselves immensely :sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

12. Thanks, Karen. I'm glad I asked. n/t

[Eric J in MN]

13. If they're guilty, give them a real trial in our federal courts.

If they're innocent, set them free.

[Eric J in MN]

14. "has hosted more than 1,000 journalists"

None of whom were allowed to spead to the prisoners.

[madokie]

15. straight out of kkkarl's mouth

what a crock