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A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle

By Scott Horton

General Al-Zahrani grieves for his son, but at the end of a lengthy interview he paused and his thoughts turned elsewhere. "The truth is what matters," he said. "They practiced every form of torture on my son and on many others as well. What was the result? What facts did they find? They found nothing. They learned nothing. They accomplished nothing."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24431.htm



Astonishing Report: We're Executing Gitmo Prisoners and Calling It Suicide

The three "suicides" in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men were killed during interrogations in a secret prison block and the murders were disguised to look like suicides.

http://snipurl.com/u4zpj



What Would Jesus Shoot?

U.S. Guns in Afghanistan and Iraq Bear Biblical Inscriptions Praising Christ.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/19/crimesider/entry6116032.shtml



Murders at Gitmo?

By Conor Friedersdorf

The official report issued by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service called the deaths suicides, implausibly claiming that the trio simultaneously hung themselves in separate, non-adjacent cells after binding their own hands and shoving rags down their own throats.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24460.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Guantánamo 'Suicides' Were at Secret 'Black' Site
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/19-2

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Too terrible to be true?

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

01/20/10

Some torture stories are just too horrible to contemplate, while others are too complicated to understand. But Scott Horton’s devastating new expose of the possible murders of three prisoners at Guantanamo in 2006 is neither: It’s simply too terrible to allow to be true. Which is why it has been mostly ignored this week in the mainstream American media and paid little attention by the usual crew of torture apologists on the right...

http://www.slate.com/id/2241948/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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