'Animals treated better' than Guantánamo prisoners

[Lori Price CLG]

'Animals treated better' than Guantánamo prisoners

The latest batch of prisoners to be released from the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay arrived in Kabul in Afghanistan yesterday, with several complaining they had been unfairly detained and treated worse than animals.

The 23 Afghans were freed along with three Pakistanis, having been held at the base in Cuba for up to 30 months without charge or representation.

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"We don’t know what our crime was," said one of the former prisoners, Lall Gul. "They just arrested us and took us to Guantánamo prison."

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-Lori Price

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. And that's the way the voting class wants it

The Guantanamo project is very popular, and everything looks good for stateside expansion!

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3. KBR got $33M for Guantanamo Bay; I am *sure* more will follow.

Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor

Bush deputy gets up to $1m from firm with Iraq oil deal

Robert Bryce in Austin, Texas and Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday March 12, 2003

Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president (sic) Dick Cheney.

The payments, which appear on Mr Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure statement, are in the form of "deferred compensation" of up to $1m (£600,000) a year.

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The defence department contract awarded to the Halliburton subsidiary, Kellog, Brown & Root (KBR), to control oil fires if Saddam Hussein sets the well heads alight, will put the company in an excellent position to bid for huge contracts when Iraq's oil industry is rehabilitated.

KBR has already benefited considerably from the "war on terror". It has so far been awarded contracts worth nearly $33m to build the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for al-Qaida suspects.

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-Lori Price

[shanti]

6. exactly

and they are the same people who would push for u.s. world domination. we live in a competitive society. look how many people like "professional" wrestling, they've even pushed this on the kids. sick....these are some sick puppies.

[teryang]

2. "They are no longer a threat?"

What legal criterion was that? Orwellian statement denies that these men were determined not to be "illegal combatants" and therefore were released, and at the same time denies that they were held unjustly and without sufficient cause.

[orwell]

4. Mirror Time

So remind me again how we are different from those we overthrow?

O

[demdave]

5. I believe they were made examples of.

I think they did it just to try to send the message "we will do this to you". Whether it works or not, will the number it inspires be greater than the number it deters, is yet to be seen.

[jus_the_facts]

7. This kind of thing is still happening to many here in the US as well....

....I've personally known people who weren't arraigned for 6 months then wasn't sentenced for over a year...in this particular jail they were NEVER allowed to go outside and there weren't any windows so this person didn't even SEE the sunshine for A YEAR...the only reason he was eventually sentenced is because he chipped through the wall of his cell and escaped as he'd even written several letters to the state and they told him since they weren't written with legal jargon it wasn't acceptable eventhough his rights were bein' VIOLATED all kinds of ways....soooo after he was caught and brought back and finally sentenced he did an EXTRA 2 years for escaping.....wonder where the OUTRAGE is for the local and state systems who treat people this same way for only stealin' a pack of cigarettes or some other piece of someone elses property that's not worth a measly hundred dollars? :grr:

also a good friend of mine is having to take her husband to receive a thrid surgery on his face because she had him locked up for non support of child care and he was attacked and his eye socket and nose were CRUSHED because there wasn't a guard on his cell block...only one DAY from bein' released. :(