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Ongoing Guantanamo News

By possum

Delays, delays, and obfuscation continue to rule in the Guantanamo Bay detention center these days. nbsp;According to a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7789005.stmBBC News/ablockquoteBarack Obama has said he aims to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and put a clear end to torture in the US within two years of becoming president./blockquoteAt the same time outgoing Vice-President Cheney continues to claim the detentions cannot end before the end of hostility.blockquoteHe also justified using water-boarding on some detainees during interrogation. /blockquote br / img src="http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l176/sedalia066/FLIKR%20Creative%20Commons/Guantanamo/wwwbloombergcom.jpg" br /www.bloomberg.com pMustafa Ait Idir is one of several Algerians recently released from Guantanamo when a U.S. judge found their detention illegal. nbsp;Idir, in an a href=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24816310-5005961,00.htmlinterview/a in a Bosnian newspaperblockquotedescribed the US "war on terror" camp as the worst place on Earth./blockquoteOther a href=http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=27195reports/a offer more graphic details of Idir's treatment at Guantanamo.blockquoteLooking frail after his years in detention, Ait Idir said he had been denied medication he needed in prison. The 38-year-old displayed a broken finger he said he had suffered there./blockquoteblockquotehe was kept for four months, lightly dressed, in a very cold refrigerated container. For short periods of the day he was taken outside, where it was very hot. Other prisoners were subjected to long periods in total darkness or very bright light/blockquotePentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a href=http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=27195denied/a the allegations sayingblockquoteWe treat all detainees humanely./blockquoteGiven the continuing reports of detainee abuse and the conditions in which they are being held in Guantanamo one must wonder why the lengthy delay is being offered by the new administration. nbsp;Will this never end? nbsp;Must we live through two more years of abuse and torture? nbsp;Are we a nation that is willing to allow torture in our names forever? pimg src="http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l176/sedalia066/FLIKR%20Creative%20Commons/Guantanamo/EndGuantanamoanajemstaht.jpg" br /jemstaht, Flickr, Creative Commons pPeace.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/NionRssFeed?a=QUguO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/NionRssFeed?i=QUguO" border="0"/img/a /div

Full post as published by Never In Our Names on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).