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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
GitMo - wheels of justice grind blindly
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_suicide
From the article:
"The apparent suicide Wednesday came despite the military's best efforts.
The military tightened security at the prison camp following the previous suicides and an uprising last spring, removing access to light fixtures and other possible makeshift weapons and taking away bed sheets in the daytime.
About 380 men are held at the isolated prison camp on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many have been held for five years.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is conducting an ongoing investigation into the three previous suicides.
The former commander of the detention facilities, Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, described those suicides as acts of "asymmetric warfare" — an effort to increase condemnation of the prison."
No, sorry, dear Admiral. Asymmetric warfare is when we pay warlords to give up "taliban or al qaeda" personnel, and maybe the warlord's daughter's lover gets caught up in the dragnet, with a fully paid ticket to Gitmo.
In Legal Limbo
Prisoners should have rights too
All hope is lost there
From the article:
"The apparent suicide Wednesday came despite the military's best efforts.
The military tightened security at the prison camp following the previous suicides and an uprising last spring, removing access to light fixtures and other possible makeshift weapons and taking away bed sheets in the daytime.
About 380 men are held at the isolated prison camp on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many have been held for five years.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is conducting an ongoing investigation into the three previous suicides.
The former commander of the detention facilities, Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, described those suicides as acts of "asymmetric warfare" — an effort to increase condemnation of the prison."
No, sorry, dear Admiral. Asymmetric warfare is when we pay warlords to give up "taliban or al qaeda" personnel, and maybe the warlord's daughter's lover gets caught up in the dragnet, with a fully paid ticket to Gitmo.
In Legal Limbo
Prisoners should have rights too
All hope is lost there
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