Media access to Guantanamo blocked altogether
USA Today
06/15/06
More than 1,000 journalists have visited Guantanamo Bay since the U.S. military began locking up suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants there 4 years ago. But access has been severely restricted: Journalists could not talk to detainees, they had to be accompanied by a military escort and their photos were censored. Now, the Pentagon has shut down access entirely -- at least temporarily -- expelling reporters this week and triggering an outcry from human rights groups, attorneys and media organizations even as the prison comes under renewed criticism for the suicides of three detainees last weekend...
http://tinyurl.com/rw4ao
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
06/15/06
More than 1,000 journalists have visited Guantanamo Bay since the U.S. military began locking up suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants there 4 years ago. But access has been severely restricted: Journalists could not talk to detainees, they had to be accompanied by a military escort and their photos were censored. Now, the Pentagon has shut down access entirely -- at least temporarily -- expelling reporters this week and triggering an outcry from human rights groups, attorneys and media organizations even as the prison comes under renewed criticism for the suicides of three detainees last weekend...
http://tinyurl.com/rw4ao
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 16. Jun, 15:01
