Government - COVER-UP- “We have three dead bodies and no explanation."

[kpete]

From the press release:

This report highlights the derelictions of duty by officials of multiple defense and intelligence agencies who allowed three detainees to die and elected not to conduct a proper investigation into the cause of the deaths.
http://law.shu.edu/ProgramsCenters/PublicIntGovServ/policyresearch/upload/gtmo_death_camp_delta.pdf

COVER UP

Professor Denbeaux commented, “An investigation was promised. The promised investigation was a cover up. Worse still, given the gross inadequacy of the investigation the more compelling questions are: Who knew of the cover up? Who approved of the cover up, and why? The government’s investigation is slipshod, and its conclusion leaves the most important questions about this tragedy unanswered.”

Taking the military investigation’s findings as truthful and complete, in order to have committed suicide by hanging, the detainees had to:

1. Braid a noose by tearing up their sheets and/or clothing
2. Make mannequins of themselves so it would appear to the guards they were asleep in their cells
3. Hang sheets to block the view into the cells, in violation of SOPs
4. Stuff rags down their own throats
5. Tie their own feet together
6. Tie their own hands together
7. Hang the noose from the metal mesh of the cell wall and/or ceiling
8. Climb up on to the sink, put the noose around their necks and release their weight, resulting in death by strangulation
9. Hang dead for at least two hours completely unnoticed by guards

Seton Hall Law student, co-author of Death in Camp Delta, and former Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division, Paul W. Taylor added: “We have three dead bodies and no explanation. How is it possible that all three detainees had shoved rags so far down their own throats that medical personnel could not remove them? One of the dead detainees was scheduled for release from Guantanamo Bay in 19 days. Instead he died in custody. The American public and the families of the dead deserve to know the truth.”

Death in Camp Delta is the Center’s Fifteenth Guantanamo Report; previous reports have been introduced into the Congressional Record by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and as part of a Resolution by the European Parliament. The Guantanamo reports have also been cited by media throughout the world. Death in Camp Delta and all previous reports, may be found at http://law.shu.edu and will be included in the Guantanamo Archives, a joint project between Seton Hall Law and New York University to document, preserve, and make accessible the legal records and the human stories of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.

more:
http://law.shu.edu/about/news_events/releases.cfm?id=79165

[BeFree]

1. This is why

No One should show any support for any more of this war on terror.

It really is that simple.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Kick

Article on the same story from Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/law-school-study-finds-ev_n_382085.html

Edited to ponder why law students are the ones doing this research.

[mcablue]

3. k&r

[Solly Mack]

4. kick

[malaise]

5. K & R

Important

[vinylsolution]

6. The war IS terror....

... and those directing and profiting from it are terrorists.

[midnight]

16. In a nut shell.... Good explaination...

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

7. kpete, still

Documenting the Atrocities

[JDPriestly]

8. Where is the Justice Department? The military justice system?

What are they doing?

The term "terrorist" is not very clearly defined. That means that virtually anyone could be labeled a terrorist and treated in this fashion by the American government. I hate to say that, but that is really what this means.

[Hissyspit]

9. Seton Hall again proves what DU'rs said at the time.

Too bad there is no accountability.

[Usrename]

10. .

[chill_wind]

11. !! "All three detainees had shoved rags so far down their own throats that medical personnel

could not remove them."

Our government continues to harbor and protect such heinous actors from accountability and justice.
WHY? How can we believe our country, our children, or grandchildren will not pay for this one day?
Do we really think the world will forget?

[aquart]

14. So not suicide.

[chill_wind]

19. No way!

The barbaric way that mankind can treat one another-- what medievil evil--

[gratuitous]

17. You're right, and I hate to say it . . .

But when the chickens come home to roost, as they almost inevitably will, American exceptionalism will once again come roaring back to wonder why "they" hate us, and we'll conclude again that it's because of our freedoms. When someone intemperately points out that other people might hold a justifiable grudge against us (citing a few chapters and verses of American atrocities and crimes against humanity), they will receive the very same treatment meted out this last time to the likes of Ted Rall, Ward Churchill and Cindy Sheehan.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Why on Earth would they want to tie their own hands and feet!?

:shrug:

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[chill_wind]

20. And how could they-

after the description of the rags down their throats...

[pleah]

13. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

15. Thanks, kpete. Unbearable info. Kicking.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[Delphinus]

18. Sometimes,

there are simply no words. :cry: