Guantanamo Cell Tapes Turned Over to U.S. Officials

[TacticalPeek]

Guantanamo Cell Tapes Turned Over to U.S. Officials

Sun Jun 13, 2004 04:36 PM ET


The tapes were turned over to the military's Southern Command in Miami, which has jurisdiction over Guantanamo. They will be sent to the Pentagon in a few weeks, when they have been transferred to digital format, Hood said.

Before the tapes are made public, the images of soldiers faces and name tags will be blurred to protect their identities, he added.

The general, who took over the prison's operation two months ago, said he was confident military police guarding prisoners were adequately trained and that safeguards were in place to ensure detainees were treated humanely. He said he and visiting government officials regularly made surprise inspections and have found nothing awry.

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The unarmed IRF team members wear padded suits like police SWAT teams and each of four grabs one of the prisoner's arms and legs. The fifth handcuffs and shackles the prisoner, base officials said.

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http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5408667



The IRF team sounds like what Ambassador Wilson has in mind for KKKarl. :evilgrin:

[sally343434]

1. Are they kidding?

> the images of soldiers faces and name tags will be blurred to
protect their identities

Yeah, right. This is obviously tampering with evidence to conceal culpability. A congressional committee should have authorized a storming and seizing of the evidence before the tampering could be done. Instead, all we'll see just how "serene and happy" everyone is in Gitmo.

[dArKeR]

2. US to yield Guantanamo tapes

REUTERS , GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA
Tuesday, Jun 15, 2004,Page 7

Officers at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay have turned over to military authorities more than 500 hours of videotape showing guards "subduing" prisoners and forcibly moving them from cells, senior officials said.

The tapes are expected to be released in a few weeks to Pentagon and congressional investigators examining abuses of prisoners by US troops, and many will likely be made public, the officials told journalists visiting the base in the past week.

Most of the almost 600 prisoners at the base in Cuba were captured in late 2001 during the US-led war to oust al Qaeda and its Taliban protectors in Afghanistan; most have not been charged with a crime in the intervening years.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/06/15/2003175141

Where are the interogation tapes? Every interogation is taped and then cross referenced into a database. Just think of the clairity mumbling of a dying human, it would be put to tape for future study. The American interogators' Arabic I would say isn't that good and considering the many dialects of Arabic.

[w4rma]

3. Impending coverup? Where is the independant investigation? (nt)

[shraby]

4. Senator Leahy asked for

the interrogation tapes to be delivered to him immediately when he found out about them. Haven't heard what happened.