Freed detainees cite rewards, beatings[GITMO}

ttp://www.boston.com ^ | 3/26/2003 | By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff

[luv2ndamend]

ABUL -- At the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, prisoners who argue with guards are persecuted and sometimes beaten, while those who obey are rewarded with good food, clothes, hygiene, and even video games, according to interviews with the largest group of detainees set free so far from the main facility for Taliban and Al Qaeda suspects.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I don't give a damn if every single accusation is true. If they don't have a bullet in their head, they're getting too good of a deal in my book.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

If the prisoner's testimony (those who recanted) was called for in a criminal court, they would be terrible witnesses, because they either lied when saying that they were treated fine, or lied when they said they were beaten.

[Jeff Chandler]

More lies, unchallenged by the news media.

[dts32041]

You know some people would complain if they were hung with a new rope.

[MEG33]

The UN should pass a resolution and Belgium could try us for war crimes.

[Texas_Jarhead]

oh the horror, the horror

[luv2ndamend]

''The conditions were even better than our homes. We were given three meals a day -- eggs in the morning and meat twice a day; facilities to wash, and if we didn't wash, they'd wash us; and there was even entertainment with video games,'' said Sirajuddin, 24, a taxi driver from Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban.

Sounds tough!! LOL

[Bogey78O]

'Seated cross-legged on a floor of the Kabul Police Department jail yesterday, nearly all of the former detainees enthusiastically praised the conditions at Guantanamo and expressed little bitterness about losing a year of their lives in captivity, saying they were treated better there than in three days in squalid cells in Kabul. None complained of torture during questioning or coerced confessions.'

Couldn't tell that by ther title.

Seems though we treat them as good as they want to be treated. If theymake a commotion and challenge the guards they get less than hospitable treatment.

You have to keep in mind we're trying to weed out who wants to kill us and who hates us but doesn't want to kill us.

[CrimeOf73]

''The conditions were even better than our homes. We were given three meals a day -- eggs in the morning and meat twice a day; facilities to wash, and if we didn't wash, they'd wash us; and there was even entertainment with video games,'

"If we are to be imprisoned, I want to go back to Guantanamo,'' he said, banging on a table.

Life in the American Gulag. ;-)

[martin_fierro]

Hell, that's better than I live!

[luv2ndamend]

LOL

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It's that pesky logic thing again! :)

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Do journalists minor in "circular reasoning"?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It's their bread and butter. In most cases, they don't report the news. They create it, then use half-truths and circular logic to "prove" it.

[CommandoFrank]

We are SOOOOOO mean...

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Straight and to the point, as always.

(BTW, that MI girl that was missing, that I mentioned to you, has been found, the creep was taken into custody, without incident.)

[SamKeck]

The men said they did not know of anyone having been beaten during interrogation.

Kinda belies the headline of the article, doanit.

[Professional]

Sounds like they were treated as good, if not better than prisoners in our every day US jail. If you plan on sending them back out, you may as well show them first hand that we are not the fanatical evil satans that they were brainwashed to believe.

[philetus]

I don't give a damn if every single accusation is true. If they don't have a bullet in their head, they're getting too good of a deal in my book.





I couldn't say it any better.