[Vision2020] Prisoner Alleges Torture bu U.S.

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Note to Nick
I was not going continue on this , but here are two book you should read and include in your articles for balance. You will not see these mentioned by the mainstream press.
Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials by Kyndra Rotunda, a former military lawyer, who was at Gitmo from 2002 to 2006. Excerpts- Detainees receive more privileges than American citizens receive in U.S. prisons. Australain Taliban member David Hicks demanded and received an $800 Brooks Brothers suit to wear in court. One detainee who was offered his freedom said "No Thanks" the weather was not vary nice in his country and that he would rather be released in the spring. The Red Cross met with camp commanders to request improvements- Their requests were trivial- they were asking for more skittles for the detainees
Inside Gitmo by Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu, He inspected every coorner of the camp and  interviewed dozens of personnel from guards, interrogators, cooks and nurses and concluded that it  a well run installation of which Americans deserves to be proud. He says that it is undoubtedly true that some prisoners were tortured in the early days when the camb was flooded with battlefield captures and fears of another 9/11 style attack ran high. These abuses were quickly corrected and treatment and oversight routines were instituted that exceed the standards of any maximum-security prison any where in the world. He describes , the treatment of prisoners and examines their experiences in detail, including the techniques used to interrogate them, the food they eat, their medical care,how they communicate with one another and many ingenious ways they contrive to assault their guards. 
HIS FINDING
The average detainee sees a physician four times a month
There is abuse- of guards by detainees, who often throw feces, semen, and spit at the guards. Guards are also on the receiving end of cursing,racial, and sexual slurs from detainees
Vigorous and prolonged investigations covering more than 24,000 interrogation sessions over a three year period revealed a total of three violations.
Roger
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From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:52:06 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Prisoner Alleges Torture bu U.S.

> Courtesy of today's (February 24, 2009) Spokesman Review.
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> Prisoner alleges torture by U.S.
> Man released to Britain after 7 years, most at Guantanamo Bay
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> Binyam Mohammed is shown Monday in London. He was recently freed from 
> Guantanamo Bay where he was held for more than four years.
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> http://tinyurl.com/BinyamMohammed
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> LONDON – A former British resident released after seven years in 
> detention, more than four of them at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, 
> arrived back in London Monday and issued a statement alleging that the 
> United States government had subjected him to years of “medieval” torture.
> 
> “It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from 
> one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways – all orchestrated 
> by the United States government,” Binyam Mohammed, 30, said in the 
> statement released by his lawyers at a London news conference.
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> Mohammed, 30, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee released during the Obama 
> administration, has become a symbol of international anger at the anti-
> terrorism practices of the United States following the Sept. 11, 2001, 
> attacks.
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> His arrival at Royal Air Force in London early Monday afternoon ended what 
> his lawyers call a seven-year odyssey of torture, “rendition” by U.S. 
> authorities to secret prisons in Morocco and Afghanistan and legal limbo 
> in a system where he was held without charge for much of his detention.
> 
> “He is a victim who has suffered more than any human being should ever 
> suffer,” said his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, who visited Mohammed a 
> half-dozen times in Guantanamo Bay.
> 
> U.S. officials initially charged Mohammed with a plot to detonate a 
> radioactive “dirty bomb” in the United States. All charges were eventually 
> dropped.
> 
> The government of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had been petitioning 
> the U.S. government for Mohammed’s return since August 2007.
> 
> British and European officials have been harshly critical of U.S. 
> treatment of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, although few European 
> governments have expressed willingness to take any of the detainees as the 
> Obama administration works to close the controversial facility.
> 
> “We very much welcome President Obama’s commitment to close Guantanamo Bay 
> and I see today’s return of Binyam Mohammed as the first step towards that 
> shared goal,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.
> 
> U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder – who was visiting Guantanamo Monday – 
> issued a statement that said, “The friendship and assistance of the 
> international community is vitally important as we work to close 
> Guantanamo, and we greatly appreciate the efforts of the British 
> government to work with us on the transfer of Binyam Mohammed.”
> 
> Mohammed, a native of Ethiopia who emigrated to Britain in 1994, was 
> arrested in Pakistan in April 2002 and turned over to U.S. authorities a 
> few months later. U.S. officials accused Mohammed of traveling to 
> Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban militia, which Mohammed has denied.
> 
> In accounts provided by his lawyers, Mohammed said U.S. officials flew him 
> to Morocco, and said he was tortured there for 18 months. Mohamed said he 
> was beaten and had his penis cut with a razor. He said he was then 
> transferred to a CIA-run site in Afghanistan and beaten at that site 
> regularly before being transferred to Guantanamo in September 2004.
> 
> U.S. officials have denied taking Mohammed to Morocco and Moroccan 
> officials deny having held him. U.S. officials have also repeatedly denied 
> using torture against terror suspects.
> 
> Mohammed apologized for not appearing in person at the news conference, 
> saying that for the moment he was “neither physically nor mentally capable 
> of facing the media.”
> 
> He said he wanted to speak out on behalf of the 241 Muslim prisoners he 
> said were still being held at Guantanamo, and the “thousands of other 
> prisoners held by the U.S. elsewhere around the world, with no charges and 
> without access to their families.”
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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