Closing Guantanamo

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The pictures in this video were taken from the promotional website for the movie "Road to Guantanamo". They are, apparently, re-enactments of events which happened to three Gitmo detainees who have been released.

http://www.roadtoguantanamomovie.com/

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A New York Times description of the movie:

While political fiction is often used to disguise real-life identities, one of the festival's strongest works is an amazing hybrid. Michael Winterbottom combines fact and fiction in "The Road to Guantánamo" (opening commercially on June 23), recounting the story of the Muslim men from Britain now known as the Tipton Three. In 2001 they set off for a wedding in Pakistan, took a side trip to Afghanistan and were captured by the Northern Alliance, held at an American military camp and later shipped to Guantánamo. They remained imprisoned there for two years, until evidence emerged that they were still in Britain at the time they were accused of having been at a rally with Osama bin Laden.

The real Tipton Three tell their stories in interviews throughout the film. (Most of those segments were handled by its co-director, Mat Whitecross.) But the work's strengths come from juxtaposing those segments with dramatic episodes in which actors play out the men's confusion and captivity in brutal detail.

Mr. Winterbottom (the master director of works like "Welcome to Sarajevo" and "Tristram Shandy") places viewers in a world where one man at Guantánamo is kept outdoors in a chain-link cage, and another is shackled in a painful posture in a dark room and bombarded with loud noise. The film doesn't question the men's version of events, but it creates a believable story with staggering force.

Because "The Road to Guantánamo" is in English, it may not seem foreign at all, but Mr. Winterbottom's British perspective is quite precise. Early on, the film shows a clip from a joint news conference that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair held in 2003.

Mr. Bush says of Guantánamo prisoners: "The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people, and we look forward to working closely with the Blair government to deal with the issue." The American military may be the film's great villain, but Mr. Winterbottom makes it clear that the Blair government is complicit.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• gitmo
• guantanamo
• detention
• terrorism

[raffles70]

act like monkeys you will be treated as monkeys end off

[Ralphdraw3]

@raffles70 Geneva convention - treat prisoners humanely

[Izzah0106]

who's actually the terrorist??

[Ralphdraw3]

@combatcommand Obama said he was going to close Gitmo and he tried to close Gitmo but the Republicans in the Senate (and some Democrats) threw a huge fit and stopped it.

[kincaid05]

6mins for 12 photos? please use flickr next time

[Ralphdraw3]

@liamjfriel oops

[Lone2011Wolf]

Shit Happens

[liamjfriel]

@shadyshamu27272 "Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.", the times newspaper.

[liamjfriel]

@shadyshamu27272 Idiot, something like 50% of the people held there are "harmless" or innocent. If your being honest your a nazi cunt.

Also if your a troll 0/10

[shadyshamu27272]

Dont give a shit if these assholes get a trail..they tried to harm America therefor they don't need a trail USA USA