The Federal War on Freedom

Jules Siegel on Guantanamo, What the World Should Know:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/siegel1.html

'If I run will you shoot?' he asked. He ran. The guard shot him dead:

Vietnam draft-dodgers, Guantanamo, Iraq — why do armies abuse their prisoners? A former runaway soldier describes his ordeal in the stockade...

http://207.44.245.159/article7899.htm

The official wall of silence surrounding the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) so-called 'ghost prisoners' who are being held at secret locations has sparked legal concerns among human rights groups that denounce the practice as abusive.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1291449.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4qgl2


From Information Clearing House

There is one tiny corner of Cuba that will for ever America be. It is a place where innocent people are held without charge for years, beyond international law, human decency and the mythical glow of Lady Liberty's torch. It is a place where torture is common, beating is ritual and humiliation is routine. They call it Guantanamo Bay.

http://207.44.245.159/article7900.htm

by Robert Gaiek

Abu Ghraib and the torture of our enemies no longer light up cable news with that mind numbing repetition of perp walks and stacked nude bodies. The military, we are assured, is taking care of the problem and the slate will be wiped clean once again for a little while. The enlisted kids being punished now and in the future will take the rap for "getting caught." The career officers will escape accountability, just as they did in Vietnam over 30 years ago....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Gaiek0128.htm

Gitmo soldier details sexual tactics

Las Vegas Review-Journal

01/27/05

Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account. A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review for a planned book that details ways the U.S. military used women as part of tougher physical and psychological interrogation tactics to get terror suspects to talk...

http://tinyurl.com/6xdlt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Former Sergeant Major Richard Jackson allegedly told the soldiers that it was policy at Camp Bread Basket near Basra to punish Iraqi thieves.

http://207.44.245.159/article7846.htm

They strap the three to boards that pivot head-down into a trough of swill and excrement keep them there until they are gagging and wild with panic of drowning lever them briefly up to air down again. Torture yet?

http://207.44.245.159/article7837.htm

Guardian [UK]

01/27/05

While anti-terrorism police were yesterday interviewing the four Britons released from Guantánamo Bay further details emerged of the alleged treatment of the men by their US captors. The US lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, who saw his client, Moazzam Begg, in Guantánamo Bay this month, said the captive had alleged persistent beatings, death threats and psychological torture first at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, then at the Cuba base. The Pentagon is investigating the abuse and torture allegations after concerns about treatment of prisoners were raised by the FBI...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1399409,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp