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I thought they were "enemy combatants"? Precision in language is at the core of the art of spin.
They are ing terrorist prisoners. THis is not supposed to be a resort. They complain about everything.
Poster of Hussein at Guantánamo Draws Detainee Complaints
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By DAVID ROHDE
Published: February 2, 2007
Military officials have removed a poster of Saddam Hussein from the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after complaints from a detainee that it was intended to intimidate the prisoners there.
Lawyers for the detainee said the 7-by-3-foot poster, in a small recreation area for prisoners, featured images of Mr. Hussein being sentenced to death and a heading in Arabic that stated, “Because Saddam chose not to cooperate and not to tell the truth, because he thought by lying he would get released, for that reason he was executed.”
The chief military spokesman in Guantánamo, Cmdr. Robert Durand, said the lawyers’ description of the statement on the poster was inaccurate, but he declined to give its exact wording.
“A recent poster showed Saddam Hussein’s capture, court appearances and sentencing,” Commander Durand said in an e-mail message. “The intent of this poster was to show that the Iraqi people are making progress and have delivered justice.”
Commander Durand said that the poster had been removed and that the military regretted that the “language of this poster appeared insensitive.”
Lawyers for the detainee who complained, David Hicks, an Australian who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, said news articles about Mr. Hussein’s execution were also displayed in the recreation area. Other articles described the accidental decapitation of a Hussein co-defendant in a subsequent hanging.
“I have no doubt that those were put up for a particular reason,” said Joshua L. Dratel, one of Mr. Hicks’s lawyers. “For psychological warfare and for mental torture and intimidation.”
Commander Durand said the articles had not been intended to intimidate prisoners. “The news photos that appear in the stories are neither graphic nor sensational,” he said. “A BBC news article describing Saddam Hussein’s execution, with a photo of him prior to his hanging, was included in the camp news.”
Since the camp’s opening, American military officials have displayed posters they created in Arabic and other languages that conveyed news events. Lawyers for the detainees said they focused on the arrests of terrorism suspects and the deaths of Iraqi and Afghan insurgents. Military officials described the posters as balanced.
In the past, military officials barred lawyers for the prisoners from describing outside events to them or giving them news articles.
The articles on Mr. Hussein were displayed under a new policy in which the American military posts a weekly collection of news reports in recreation areas around the prison, Commander Durand said.
I thought they were "enemy combatants"? Precision in language is at the core of the art of spin.
omg... polotics suck
^at polotics
they aren't terrorists until they are convicted, and Puto doesn't have enough evidence to convict unless before a military kangaroo court.
Puto Gonzalez just lost the conviction of two alleged Hamas financers:
"Two Men Acquitted of Conspiracy To Fund Hamas Activities in Israel
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 2, 2007; Page A01
A federal jury in Chicago acquitted two men yesterday of charges that they were part of a long-running conspiracy to finance Hamas activities in Israel -- marking the latest defeat for the Justice Department in cases involving support for radical Palestinian groups. ...."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020101377.html
Poor dubya, choosing lapdog loyalist Puto over competence bites dubya in the ass.
Or cooperate or get shipped to pakistan and die in their prison.
not so funny.
They've had plenty of time to ship them somewhere else to be tortured.
How do you know the intricacies of the interrogation program?
You don't know how many detainees we have there, or the situation.
All i know is that if the detainees don't cooperate, they can be shipped of to pakistan or anyother country who wants to toy with them.
You can write a lenghty post on who and who shouldn't be kept in Guantanamo or any other facility.
Provide their name, age, sex, weight, their hobbies, or favorite soap and why they're here, and how important of info they posses that can help the US.
Otherwise spare us all the jackass remarks and smart alec questions to which you yourself can't awnser.
I know they are resorting to putting up lame posters of Saddam.How do you know the intricacies of the interrogation program.A little over 400.You don't know how many detainees we have thereWhat is there to know?or the situation.How do you know that? The usual MO in extraordinary rendition was to take them to those places to be tortured right off the bat.All i know is that if the detainees don't cooperate, they can be shipped of to pakistan or anyother country who wants to toy with them.
Otherwise spare us all the jackass remarks and smart alec questions to which you yourself can't awnser.I just answered one of your unknown unknowns, bag.
Good, pat yourself on the back.
Elementary my dear watson. submit an application to the military if you have the handle on this.How do you know that?
vague? explain yourself.The usual MO in extraordinary rendition was to take them to those places to be tortured right off the bat
I'm glad you can paste a sentence and add a smiley.
Clever.
Explain what? If you don't know the basic facts about extraordinary rendition, find it out yourself.
all u smart ass mother ers shut the up stop acting like you have a stick up your ass and speak english. u guys make me sick talking this and that speak mother ing english and politics and u
I've already explained it.
Read asshole.
NorCal is just overtired.
You told me to explain myself. You must be drink.
how can you be "drink"? in re
I'm drink.
smart ass
Yes i did. and?
You told me to explain myself. You must be drink.
Right, and I said "those places" and you said "explain yourself" and I asked you what you needed explained to you. If you don't know where "those places" are, look them up. I want to see if you can do it.
Ok,... I'm glad you're going out of your mod duties by encouraging people to google, but i just wanted to know if by places you meant anything besides other governments, like other facilities in europe or different sister intel agencies, since i never heard anything like that was part of e.r.
I've already explained e.r. hint my first post in this thread. so looking up the definition of extraordianry rendition would be as time savy as arguing over semantics.
If it is so lame why are they crying?
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