Monday, December 27, 2004
Just a Few Bad Apples
And what sexually twisted apples they are.
Who says winning the hearts and minds of the Arab world can’t be kinky, too?
WASHINGTON - At least 10 current and former detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have lodged allegations of abuse similar to the incidents described by FBI agents in newly released documents, claims that were denied by the government but that gained credibility with the reports from the agents, their attorneys say.Full article here.
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The detainees who made public claims of torture at Guantanamo Bay describe a prison camp in which abuse is employed as a coordinated tool to aid interrogators and as punishment for minor offenses.
They say military personnel beat and kicked them while they had hoods on their heads and tight shackles on their legs, left them in freezing temperatures and stifling heat, subjected them to repeated, prolonged rectal exams, and paraded them naked around the prison as military police snapped pictures.
In some allegations, the detainees claim they have been threatened with sexual abuse. British detainee Martin Mubanga, one of Mickum's clients, wrote his sister that the American military police were treating him like a "rent boy," British slang for a male prostitute.
A group of released British detainees claim that several young prisoners told them they were raped and sexually violated after guards took them to isolated sections of the prison.
They said an Algerian man was "forced to watch a video supposedly showing two detainees dressed in orange, one sodomizing the other, and was told that it would happen to him if he didn't cooperate."
Remember, people, it’s about the moral values.