Posted on 08/17/2012 12:36:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What’s fluffy, has four paws and just might be the latest tool in the war against terror? A kitten!
We’ve heard of prisoners who cooperate with authorities being rewarded with cigarettes, better food, perhaps an upgrade in digs. But in Guantanamo Bay, we’re told that the military brass have added pet cats to the list of perks accorded particularly helpful detainees.
At least that’s what one detainee’s attorney thinks. Carlos Warner, a lawyer representing Muhammed Rahim, an Afghan who was a translator for Osama bin Laden, gave the Loop a brief letter from his client. That note, which was just declassified, consisted of one line: “Dear Mr. Warner — Majid Khan has a cat.”
Khan, an alleged member of Al Qaeda who has agreed to testify against one of the chief planners of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is considered a “high-value”detainee and was held by the CIA in a secret prison for several years before his transfer to Guantanamo.
Warner says the cat-as-reward is just an example of problems plaguing the system used to prosecute detainees, complaining that the military has shut down talks with detainees’ representatives. “I promise that the solution is not providing kittens to those who cooperate,” he told us. “The solution requires an open dialogue with those of us who have close relationships with the detained.”
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“The solution requires an open dialogue with those of us who have close relationships with the detained”
BS. Waterboard and torture them. Blowtorches & pliers. Then kill them. Maggots gotta eat, too.
No, but I’ve been poked by a kitten.
Cats are too short, these sand rats are used to sex with camels.
Do they cook them first?
I think they should have given each and every one of them a pot-bellied pig, to live in their cells with them.
How about the pot-bellied pigs?
Those would make great “pen pals”!
Muslim Bisexual - He has a kitten AND a goat.
“....the inmates trained cats....”
OK, I gotta say, I don’t know how ANYBODY can train a cat!
Those inmates’ talents are truly being wasted in jail. I need at least one of them to come here and by my kitteh-whisperer. We have one who is still a complete basket case. He just needs to train her to let us pet her, a little bit.
And I will say that the one good trait Muhammed seems to have had was that he liked cats.
I'm just sayin.......
Exactly...PETA are such hypocrits....
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