Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: Memoir of a Citizen Warrior author interview Part I

[MontgomeryJGranger]

I never admitted any such thing. The complete cover-to-cover is a real story, much more than you have to offer. Because I am a capitalist I applaud David Hicks ability to make a living for himself with his book; better that than trying to kill his own countrymen in Afghanistan like he tried to do in 2001. You can get a copy of my book (in this country, unlike Hick's) on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, gitmo.us, and you can see a review at War on Terror News, unless you fear reality

[MontgomeryJGranger]

YOur comment, "your facts don't add up" is meaningless without back up. I visited the detention hospital (Fleet Hospital 120) daily, and made frequent trips to Camp X-Ray at all hours, usually accompanying my boss, the camp commandant, with whom I shared a condo. Our personnel/logistics and JAG officer also shared the condo and office space. Believe me, I got the stories and could see for myself when the mood struck me. How many times were you there?

[MontgomeryJGranger]

Remember that there are two missions in a detention operation, one is incarceration (to which I was attached), and the other is interrogation (intelligence gathering). If you actually read my book instead of lying about it, you wold know I observed David Hicks being put into his new cell at Camp Delta in April of 2002. You really have to read it to know what happened!  Hicks was almost a daily topic of conversation, and someone who was shunned by other detainees.

[MontgomeryJGranger]

The ICRC told me we were the best in the world at detention operations when I was at Gitmo, which was repeated to me when I served in Iraq in 2004-2005. We know al Qaeda are trained to lie about their treatment, which they do. My story is from the inside of the incarceration mission, not the intelligence mission. Whether you like it or not, or whether or not it is PC, detainees are treated with dignity and respect in U.S. military prisons.

[yeejim90]

Major Granger's account of Guantanamo does not hold up against publicly released military and FBI documents of the operation. The International Committee of the Red Cross describe the treatment of Gitmo prisoners as "tantamount to torture." It's confirmed by military investigations like the Schmidt Report, and released FBI memos that prisoners were subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.  What's worse is that he is a US military office dishonoring the uniform by telling untruths

[PalestineOnMyMind]

Fuck you, Monty.