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Titolo: [Guantanamo] Sergeant says Guantanamo jail has changed his view of US

http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/19/int7.htm
Sergeant says Guantanamo jail has changed his view of US
By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 18: The number of detainees who tried to kill
themselves inside the US prison in Cuba is much higher than what
prison officials admit, says a new book on life at Guantanamo Bay. Sgt
Erik Saar, who volunteered for Guantanamo in 2002, says what he saw at
Guantanamo had changed his attitude towards the camp and his country.
The sergeant, a former member of the US military intelligence who
worked at the prison for six months, writes in the book that official
statistics showed there had been only 32 suicide attempts at the camp,
but the actual figure was much higher.
“The device of labelling most attempted suicides as ‘manipulative
self-injurious behaviour’ kept the numbers low.”
His book, Inside The Wire, is a damning expose of what he describes as
the brutal, degrading treatment meted out to prisoners at Guantanamo
Bay. The book comes at a time when the US military’s treatment of
prisoners is already in the spotlight due to the Newsweek report on
desecration of the holy Quran at Guantanamo Bay and court hearings
over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
“Few issues were as weighty or generated as much agitation within the
cellblocks and among camp personnel as the handling of the Quran,”
writes Sgt Saar. “The detainees fervently objected to non-Muslims
handling the Quran. This presented a huge quandary since the guards
needed to inspect the cells regularly for security reasons … sometimes
an MP (military police) inspected a Quran himself, which would stir
the detainees into a near riot, complete with spitting at the guard
and loud choruses of Allaho Akbar.”
Sgt Saar recalls that when one of the MPs dropped a copy of the holy
Quran, ‘he detainees went nuts’. “They were throwing so much water at
the guards that they decided to shut it off for the afternoon. Their
chow holes were open, and they all bunched up their mattresses and
pushed them through into the wet hallway.”
The sergeant argues that despite attempts to right wrongs at
Guantanamo, the camp still defiles the values the US is fighting for
in the ‘war on terror’. He said stormtrooper-like IRF (initial
reaction force) teams were involved in numerous beatings of captives.
And of the 600 or so prisoners there, no more than a few dozen were
‘hardcore terrorists’, says Erik Saar, adding that there were many
among the interrogators and translators who believed a large number of
prisoners were ordinary civilians.
He notes that after the ouster of the Taliban government in 2001,
Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance handed over a large number of
civilians to the US military, labelling them as terrorists because
they (Alliance) were paid $5,000 for each Al Qaeda suspect they
caught.
“The US government portrays Guantanamo as a place where we are sending
the worst of the worst, but this is not true.
“Guantanamo was the beginning of a mistake. It set a precedent in
labelling people as enemy combatants, blurring the line between right
and wrong.
“You can see it as the seed that may well have led to the naked human
pyramids in Abu Ghraib.”
Sgt Saar says that often interrogations at Guantanamo were ‘staged’
for visiting inspectors.
“Guantanamo has become a symbol of everything wrong with America’s
image. If we are trying to build a bridge to the Muslim world, what
sort of face are we portraying,” asks Erik Saar.
He also observes in the book that the treatment meted out to the
prisoners only increases the hatred some of them have for America and
strengthens their faith in ‘extremist beliefs’.
Sarà anche lui un comunista?

says a new book on life at Guantanamo Bay.
Azz.... Cosa non si fa e si dice per soldi :)
-Stefano

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tu invece sei l'unico puro che spara cazzate senza remunerazione alcuna: 
rimani cosě 

alcuna:
...disse il bue all'asino... :)
-Stefano

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senza remunerazione alcuna
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e di questo tu hai le prove, ma non le vuoi mostrare al mondo, vero?!
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no miriam, come al solito processo indiziario senza ulteriori elementi di 
riscontro  eheheheh