Post by Sneltrekker on Jun 11, 2006 8:37:57 GMT
I guess we all know what this is about. Anyone seen the movie The Road to Guantanamo yet? Still have to see it myself, but looked the story up.
That's the story that stands out most to me, showing exactly how sick, disgusting, twisted, and inhuman, the US Government is. Three prisoners they've been torturing for several years now kill themself to be free of the living hell they were put into by those bloated, capitalist, sociopathic Americans; and now those same disgusting shitfaced US armypeople call this suicide an act of war??
Even the Nazis had more humanity than this.
Anyone saw "The Road to Guantanamo"? That movie that's been out for a while?
www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996679
That kinda sums up the story. Four (non-practicing) muslims who live in the UK travel to Pakistan for one guy's marriage. They are there in Pakistan, and in a Mosque they hear about trouble in Pakistan, so the four get on a bus to go there and give humanitarian help.
Right over the border they end up in an American airstrike, one of the four presumably dies. He's never heard of again at least. The other three get arrested, treated as if they are terrorists, and abused in Guantanamo for years.
The three Britons are eventually flown to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where they are held in detention for over two years, systematically tortured and accused of all sort of crimes. A female interrogator shows them bad video footage of an old rally attended by Bin Laden and Mohammed Atta and insists she can see all three sitting in the crowd. This is another of those laugh/cry moments.
Ironically, a police record back in England clears them. Two of the youths were on parole for minor offenses while Shafiq was working at an electrical superstore at the time they supposedly were in Pakistan cheering Bin Laden. The men were freed in England in March 2004.
Three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have died in what appears to have been a suicide pact.
The inmates, two Saudis and a Yemeni, hanged themselves in their cells.
The camp commander said the deaths - the first at the camp - were planned in "an act of warfare". Rights groups said they were driven by despair.
President George Bush expressed "serious concern" over the suicides at Guantanamo, which holds about 460 men captured in the US "war on terror".
There have been dozens of suicide attempts since the camp was set up four years ago - but none successful until now.
The men were found unresponsive and not breathing by guards on Saturday morning, said officials.
They were in separate cells in Camp One, the highest security section of the prison.
They hanged themselves with clothing and bed sheets, camp commander Rear Adm Harry Harris said.
"The guard force and medical teams reacted quickly to attempt to save the detainee's life," he said, referring to the first suicide victim to be found.
A military investigation into the deaths is now under way.
'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."
Some detainees have been involved in on and off hunger strikes since last August to protest at their continued detention and conditions, although according to authorities the number dropped to 18 last weekend from a high of 131.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said Mr Bush "expressed serious concern" at the deaths.
"He also stressed that it was important to treat the bodies humanely and with cultural sensitivity," he said.
A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair described the suicide as a "sad incident", adding that everyone should wait for the results of the investigation before making further comment.
Mr Blair has in the past described Guantanamo as "an anomaly that has to end".
The deaths will increase pressure on the US from human rights groups and several European countries who have been calling for Guantanamo to be closed, says the BBC's James Westhead in Washington.
'Lawless detention'
Human rights group condemned the suicides. Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, told the BBC they were probably spurred by despair.
"These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly," he said.
"There's no end in sight. They're not being brought before any independent judges. They're not being charged and convicted for any crime."
On Friday, President Bush responded to growing calls for the prison to be shut down, saying: "We would like to end Guantanamo - we'd like it to be empty."
"There are some that, if put out on the streets, would create grave harm to American citizens and other citizens of the world. And, therefore, I believe they ought to be tried in courts here in the United States," he added.
The inmates, two Saudis and a Yemeni, hanged themselves in their cells.
The camp commander said the deaths - the first at the camp - were planned in "an act of warfare". Rights groups said they were driven by despair.
President George Bush expressed "serious concern" over the suicides at Guantanamo, which holds about 460 men captured in the US "war on terror".
There have been dozens of suicide attempts since the camp was set up four years ago - but none successful until now.
The men were found unresponsive and not breathing by guards on Saturday morning, said officials.
They were in separate cells in Camp One, the highest security section of the prison.
They hanged themselves with clothing and bed sheets, camp commander Rear Adm Harry Harris said.
"The guard force and medical teams reacted quickly to attempt to save the detainee's life," he said, referring to the first suicide victim to be found.
A military investigation into the deaths is now under way.
'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."
Some detainees have been involved in on and off hunger strikes since last August to protest at their continued detention and conditions, although according to authorities the number dropped to 18 last weekend from a high of 131.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said Mr Bush "expressed serious concern" at the deaths.
"He also stressed that it was important to treat the bodies humanely and with cultural sensitivity," he said.
A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair described the suicide as a "sad incident", adding that everyone should wait for the results of the investigation before making further comment.
Mr Blair has in the past described Guantanamo as "an anomaly that has to end".
The deaths will increase pressure on the US from human rights groups and several European countries who have been calling for Guantanamo to be closed, says the BBC's James Westhead in Washington.
'Lawless detention'
Human rights group condemned the suicides. Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, told the BBC they were probably spurred by despair.
"These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly," he said.
"There's no end in sight. They're not being brought before any independent judges. They're not being charged and convicted for any crime."
On Friday, President Bush responded to growing calls for the prison to be shut down, saying: "We would like to end Guantanamo - we'd like it to be empty."
"There are some that, if put out on the streets, would create grave harm to American citizens and other citizens of the world. And, therefore, I believe they ought to be tried in courts here in the United States," he added.
That's the story that stands out most to me, showing exactly how sick, disgusting, twisted, and inhuman, the US Government is. Three prisoners they've been torturing for several years now kill themself to be free of the living hell they were put into by those bloated, capitalist, sociopathic Americans; and now those same disgusting shitfaced US armypeople call this suicide an act of war??
Even the Nazis had more humanity than this.
Anyone saw "The Road to Guantanamo"? That movie that's been out for a while?
www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996679
That kinda sums up the story. Four (non-practicing) muslims who live in the UK travel to Pakistan for one guy's marriage. They are there in Pakistan, and in a Mosque they hear about trouble in Pakistan, so the four get on a bus to go there and give humanitarian help.
Right over the border they end up in an American airstrike, one of the four presumably dies. He's never heard of again at least. The other three get arrested, treated as if they are terrorists, and abused in Guantanamo for years.
The three Britons are eventually flown to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where they are held in detention for over two years, systematically tortured and accused of all sort of crimes. A female interrogator shows them bad video footage of an old rally attended by Bin Laden and Mohammed Atta and insists she can see all three sitting in the crowd. This is another of those laugh/cry moments.
Ironically, a police record back in England clears them. Two of the youths were on parole for minor offenses while Shafiq was working at an electrical superstore at the time they supposedly were in Pakistan cheering Bin Laden. The men were freed in England in March 2004.