National Geographic film goes ‘Inside Guantanamo’

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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/National_Geographic_film_goes_Inside_Guantanamo.html?siteSect=143&sid=10534606&cKey=1238761449000&ty=ti

April 3, 2009 - 12:06 PM

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo military prison guards call it a "cocktail," the mix of faeces, urine and spit that inmates hurl at them and that dramatizes the soldiers' view that they are serving on a battlefield.

The inmates talk of their years behind steel doors, many held without charges, and denounce their American jailers as "attackers of Muslims ... with blood on your hands."

The day-to-day tensions between inmates -- some of whom charge torture -- and the troops who guard them are vividly depicted from both perspectives in a new National Geographic documentary, "Explorer: Inside Guantanamo."

"This is still an integral part of the war on terror," Guantanamo's "warden," Col. Bruce Vargo said in the movie. A former inmate agrees, calling Guantanamo a physical and psychological "war zone."

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1. Saw a preview on TV last night - looks very powerful and very disturbing...

I'm glad this film was done ~ imo we have to expose the Bush legacy for what it is and prosecute asap.

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2. "when the prison doors fly open the real dragon will fly out"

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3. I was just going to post this.

Thanks.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/41318