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'I'd Rather Return to Guantanamo'(Barf alert)
Der Spiegel ^
| September
Posted on 09/06/2007 9:52:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
When two Tunisian men were sent home after five years in Guantanamo, they thought they would be free. Instead, they faced imprisonment, abuse, threats and solitary confinement. Now they say things were better back in the US prison camp.
Many of the detainees sitting in Guantanamo Bay hail from countries with a terrible record of torturing and abusing prisoners. While they may want to see an end to their ordeal in the US prison camp, they also have reason to dread the treatment they could face back home.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the US government is not doing enough to ensure that prisoners sent back home are not subjected to ill treatment, despite diplomatic assurances from their home countries. The US is continuing to repatriate prisoners, sending home 16 Saudis on Thursday. But in their haste to reduce the numbers at Guantanamo, it seems they are being less than thorough in ensuring that the former prisoners are not mistreated.
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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; humanrightswatch; sourgrapes
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:52:25 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Now they say things were better back in the US prison camp. Bush ordered them to say that.
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:53:30 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Kaslin
the US government is not doing enough to ensure that prisoners sent back home are not subjected to ill treatment So, we ARE the world's policeman, officially now.
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:54:19 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Kaslin
Dear Human Rights Watch,
- Go to those countries and tell them how to tread terrorist...See how long you keep your heads.
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:55:57 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: Kaslin
A jujitsu move to get us all to say "yay, close Gitmo and send these mutts back to some real imprisonment?"
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:56:04 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: Izzy Dunne
Did’t you forget this? /sarcasm>
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:57:05 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(The Surge has worked and the li(e)berals know it)
To: Kaslin
I have an idea HRW. If we need to respect their humaman rights,
Let’s invade Sovereign despots and destroy their governance.
Oh wait, your opposed to that too.
Why? Because HRW is a moral sham and a great friend to dictators.
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posted on
09/06/2007 9:57:08 AM PDT
by
lonestar67
(Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
To: Kaslin
the US government is not doing enough to ensure that prisoners sent back home are not subjected to ill treatment Ok now I am confused, the Libs of this country and others want us to send them home and when we do it is our fault when their people and their government's treats them poorly.
Dam it must be good to be a lib and can never be wrong or responsible.
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posted on
09/06/2007 10:01:40 AM PDT
by
Rogle
To: Kaslin
But, but, but... we torture those poor prisoners don't we? We force feed them lemon chicken and they get to lift weights and sniff the ground 5 times a day.
Maybe we should send them back and let them experience a real prison.
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posted on
09/06/2007 10:08:58 AM PDT
by
BigFinn
(Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
To: Kaslin
Human Rights Watch, of course we aren’t JackSquat either.
To: Kaslin
I thought folks could tell, but maybe not.
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posted on
09/06/2007 10:15:14 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Kaslin
It’s probably Bush’s fault if any of those men convert away from Islam while at Gitmo (where they have a protected FREEDOM OF RELIGION) and are sent back to Saudi Arabia where only Islam may be practiced.
The world hates the US because “we are”, not because “we are wrong”. Where is the public criticism of these nations these terrorists came from?
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posted on
09/06/2007 10:21:33 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: Kaslin
"But in their haste to reduce the numbers at Guantanamo,..." Oh! So now we are being hasty? LOL!!!! Liberals are born whiners.
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posted on
09/06/2007 10:42:47 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: Izzy Dunne
Dear Dictator,
I’m sorry Mohammi has been absent for three years, but he just couldn’t come to the Jihad. Please treat him nicely, and let him make up the work. He prayed every day and ate only Halal food. Contrary to rumors floating around, he did NOT laugh at the “Pigs in Space” episode of the Muppet Show that was accidentally aired during recess time. Or, if he did, I’m sure he was laughing at the Swedish chef, and not Miss Piggy, Link Hogthrob or Dr. Strangepork.
Sincerely,
“Dolphie” Eichmann
Director of Guest Services
Club Gitmo
“Git Mo’ or git home”
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posted on
09/06/2007 11:36:24 AM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Kaslin
Back when leftards were still working themselves into a lather over a bunch of "abuses" at Gitmo that proved to be complete and utter fabrications from the usual media suspects and other leftard traitors working for the terrorists, I remember amusing myself with the thought of how some of those terrorist prisoners would probably find their situation better at Gitmo than they would back in some of the crummy cesspit countries that sent them against our troops in the first place if they ever went back there. (In some places, such as Iran, a failed martyr is treated much the same as the Soviet POWs in Germany were treated in the USSR when they got home.) Then, a few days ago, I happened to think about this one great song Spinal Tap did about going from the frying pan into the fire.
The girls are flirty
With menstrual blood;
Feel like a eunuch, not a man.
The meals from McDonalds,
They make me fat.
Somebody spit on my Koran.
This place is noisy;
That Christine* chick--
They blast her music in my face.
They're pouring water
Over my head.
They trimmed my beard--what a disgrace!
(Yeah!)
I'm living here at GITMO!
Don't want to stay here at GITMO!
I might just die here at GITMO!
Help get me out of this GITMO!
I played the courts and
They got me out,
But now I'm in this Muslim jail.
I'm taking floggings,
I'm getting raped;
This hot seat I'm in makes me wail.
(Oh!)
More tortures coming;
I had to split.
Hope I can get out of Iran.
I'll hitch a ride
And go to Baghdad,
And hail some nice American.
(Yeah!)
(That's just what I'll do!)
(Right now!)
It's better down at GITMO!
Night life ain't so bad down at GITMO!
Screw this jihad! I want GITMO!
Please get me back into GITMO!
*He's talking about Christina, of course, as in Aguilera. Can't blame a foreigner for not knowing the full name of every pop star skank in America. Allegedly, interrogators played her music at Gitmo to torture prisoners, which has me asking: what, was Vanilla Ice too busy to make a stopover or something? "Talk, or we'll make you listen to 'Ice, Ice, Baby' live again!" It also wouldn't have hurt (physically, at least) to fire up some Alanis Morissette CDs or any Polonia Brothers movie.
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posted on
09/07/2007 10:05:31 AM PDT
by
Parody
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posted on
09/07/2007 10:10:10 AM PDT
by
Califreak
(Go Hunter!)
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