Tag: Guantanamo Bay

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

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2008-06-18 In the USA, Physicians for Human Rights released a report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using waterboarding, beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.

The group examined 11 men who had been freed without charges after being held for three years in the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba,
2007-12-11 The Justice Department and National Security Council reportedly approved waterboarding and other "alternative" interrogation techniques in June 2002.
"It was a policy decision that came down from the White House."
-- John Kiriakou, former CIA agent who participated in interrogations of terror suspects, in a CNN interview
2007-07-24 top Pakistani militant commander Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up to avoid arrest when he was cornered by security forces in southwestern Pakistan.

Mehsud, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, was believed to be linked to the wave of suicide and other militant attacks that has claimed more than 200 lives since the siege of the capital's Red Mosque began on July 3.
2007-06-10 "Guantanamo has become a major, major problem ... in the way the world perceives America and if it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon ... and I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system"
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission. We don't need it and it is causing us far more damage than any good we get for it"
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told NBC's Meet the Press.
2007-06 A Saudi man became the fourth prisoner to take his own life at Guantanamo Bay
2007-04-27 The Central Intelligence Agency held a captured Qaeda leader, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, an Iraqi Kurd, in a secret prison since last fall and transferred him last week to the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Friday.
2007-01-12 “I think the news story that you’re really going to start seeing in the next couple of weeks is this: As a result of a FOIA request through a major news organization, somebody asked, ‘Who are the lawyers around this country representing detainees down there?’ and you know what, it’s shocking.”
“I think, quite honestly, when corporate C.E.O.’s see that those firms are representing the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001, those C.E.O.’s are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms, and I think that is going to have major play in the next few weeks. And we want to watch that play out.”

Charles D. Stimson, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs in an interview on Thursday with Federal News Radio, a local Washington-based station that is aimed at an audience of government employees.
2007-01-11 The fifth anniversary of the first detainees arriving at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
2007-01-11 Amnesty International USA Executive Director Larry Cox condemned Guantanamo as "a symbol around the world for human rights abuse and for wrongheaded policies enacted in the name of the war on terror."
2007-01-11 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "I understand that today is the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo's prison," Ban said at a news conference in New York. "Like my predecessor, I believe that prison at Guantanamo should be closed."












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