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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 11:32 AM Jan 2015

Breaking: Gitmo Guard on Alleged CIA Murder of Hunger Strikers (Video)

If You Only News website has posted a video by Vice News with the If Only thread "GUANTANIMO GUARD SAYS CIA MURDERED PRISONERS, MADE IT LOOK LIKE SUICIDE (VIDEO)"

In the interview and book purportedly being released by Gitmo guard Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman, there are details of alleged murders of the 3 parties who were the leaders behind the Gitmo hunger strikes.

As stated on If Only;

Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman has made some serious allegations against CIA agents operating at Guantanamo Bay prison camp Delta.

Hickman, who was a guard at the camp in 2006, says the CIA murdered three inmates who were notorious for inciting hunger strikes and made their deaths look like suicides.

In a video interview with Vice News, Hickman describes the motive as well as the methods that he believes were used to justify and murder three people who were slated for release that had never been charged with a crime.


This is the "excerpt" video by If Only


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As the If Only further notes - the (purported) suicides are being covered up due to fear and worse;

They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose and hung themselves simultaneously.
Hickman believes other guards from Delta haven’t come forward for fear of repercussions, as the cover-up of these murders reached as high as Rear Admiral Harry Harris, who attacked the men in an interview with Reuters after their deaths:

They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not


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Errant - If Only notes a Reuters interview; but links to a BBC/ UK article on the case that quotes a Rear Admiral saying the suicides were an actual plan of warfare against America;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5068228.stm

'Warfare'

Rear Adm Harris said he did not believe the men had killed themselves out of despair.

"They are smart. They are creative, they are committed," he said, quoted by Reuters.

"They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."


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Vice News notes that Sgt. Hickman has written a book;

https://news.vice.com/video/the-vice-news-interview-joseph-hickman

According to the US government, three detainees — all imprisoned as part of the global war on terror — hung themselves in their cells that night. But Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman, who was on guard that night at Camp Delta, came to believe something very different: that the three men were murdered in a secret CIA black site at Guantanamo.

After leaving the Army, Hickman spent years looking into the deaths. His investigation has led him to write a new book, Murder at Camp Delta.

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This is video, with more details, from Vice News
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SPECIAL NOTE: - The 3 detainees were reportedly "Cleared" to be transferred OFF Gitmo!

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Breaking: Gitmo Guard on Alleged CIA Murder of Hunger Strikers (Video) (Original Post) laserhaas Jan 2015 OP
Sounds like our "security forces" doing what they do which is lie, murder, and feed entropy. TheKentuckian Jan 2015 #1
Sad state of affairs. laserhaas Jan 2015 #2
Sad indeed. SamKnause Jan 2015 #5
I know what you mean. laserhaas Jan 2015 #6
K&R G_j Jan 2015 #3
Neat BP thingy laserhaas Jan 2015 #4
40's era Germans lobodons Jan 2015 #7

TheKentuckian

(24,949 posts)
1. Sounds like our "security forces" doing what they do which is lie, murder, and feed entropy.
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 11:40 AM
Jan 2015

Look forward my ass.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
2. Sad state of affairs.
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 11:42 AM
Jan 2015

Hard to be proud of what we are supposed to stand for

when stuff like this - is what we are actually doing.

just sayin...

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
5. Sad indeed.
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 11:49 AM
Jan 2015

Exactly what does the U.S. stand for ?

I don't have a clue.

I think the U.S. is a rogue nation.

It does what it wants, where it wants, to who it wants with zero consequences.

Our politicians, including presidents, continue to protect the guilty.

It is sickening and dangerous.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
6. I know what you mean.
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 12:27 PM
Jan 2015

Consider it a miracle I'm still breathing.

And more concerned that Mitt can't permit me to do so;
if he is still at his POTUS run come Sept...

 

lobodons

(1,290 posts)
7. 40's era Germans
Sat Jan 17, 2015, 02:29 PM
Jan 2015

You start to get a feeling of what it must have like for the Germans during/after WWII when the news started coming out what their country did during the war.

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