April 30, 2006
'The Worst of the Worst"
In 2002, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld famously referred to Guantanamo prisoners as "the worst of the worst."
...there are the British men who were detained for nearly three years and who have sued the US government, alleging torture and other human-rights violations. In a 115-page dossier, the men allege that they were beaten, stripped, shackled and deprived of sleep during their detention. They charge that guards threw prisoners' Korans into toilets and attempted to force them to give up their religious faith. There say detainees were forcibly injected with unidentified drugs and intimidated with military dogs. And they claim they were subjected to abuse and beatings during their detention.
Each said they eventually gave false confessions that they appeared in a video with al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Atta, one of the September 11 hijackers, despite the fact that they could prove they were in Britain when the video was made.
After they were freed last March, the men were questioned by British police but quickly released without charge.
[Then there are at least three children, ages 13 to 15.]
article by William Fisher | TruthOut
[Guanatanamo detainee]
~There are no recent photos of detainees in the new Guantanamo prison.
Posted by Stubbornson at April 30, 2006 04:47 PM