Life at Guantánamo Bay

During the last six years, the U.S. Administration has held nearly 800 alleged terror suspects without trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 500 of these men have now been released, but their stories - and the stories of those who remain - are largely unknown. Fragments have emerged in books and interviews, and in declassified accounts from the detainees' lawyers, but until now there has been no comprehensive overview of all their cases.

In The Guantánamo Files, based on a detailed analysis of over 8,000 pages of transcripts released by the Pentagon, Andy Worthington, a London-based historian and journalist, brings to life Guantánamo's largely anonymous detainees.

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[Wouldman2]

BTW,all those Socialist Unions in canada love to vacation in Cuba while the locals there starve to death and some rummage through the GITMO garbage heaps for food scaps. I'd have more respect for you if you just told the truth and said you're in it for the money and don't give a $hit about the poor Globally. All the pollution and wasted energy to go on TV is one heluva Carbon footprint. Go back to your mansions in the Limo or Suv's. Al Gore has 5 House,see if he will take in the GITMO guys.

[Wouldman2]

GITMO is Leased to the USA from Fidel and Cuba. Why not focus your energy on protesting the Communist thugs complicit in this maltreatment and demand that Cubans rise up and force the Government to terminate the Lease and remove the US base??? Or is there too much NGO money for Lawyers and career whiners to bilk from the slave labour workers around the World that make the protest T-Shirts or even make all their clothes and shoes. Thank God you are in aa Nation that tolerates tripe.

[ikekll]

An Innocent Man In Guantanamo: Five Years of My Life, Part III

Today we hear excerpts... Years of My Life. That's the title of the memoirs recently released by Murat Kurnaz who was detained at Guantanamo for five years.

Kurnaz is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, he traveled to Pakistan to learn more about his Muslim faith and was later arrested at a checkpoint, handed to the United States and eventually taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

[ikekll]

"James Yee - the former US Army Muslim Chaplain of Guantanamo Bay. His book, For God And Country, Faith and Patriotism Under Fire, tells the story about being wrongly accused of espionage and imprisoned by the U.S. military. In 2004, the government dropped all charges against him and he received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army."

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[ikekll]

As many, maybe more than 120 of Gitmos prisoners had been living in Pakistan, some

were working jobs in humanitarian aid charities. They weren't captured in battle, by "coalition forces," as we were led to believe.

The US military offered bounty payments to Pakistan in return for AlQueda and Taliban members. These Pakistanis were rounded up by their own allies & sold for bounty to the US military. They became the warm bodies to be flaunted as "terrorists" to support the "war of terror."

[ikekll]

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files

His research on the individuals being detained and their circumstances, is based on files released by the Pentagon. Info was released ONLY after the AP filed a law suit in response to the Pentagons denial of the AP's FOI request.

The author also spent time at the prison with detainees.

THIS is sad and disgraceful.

All my doubts are dispelled that top brass making decisions in this admin have ZERO integrity and less credibility.