Scott Horton of Harper’s has a great piece online on how three detainees at Gitmo were killed during interrogations. The military responded with an elaborate coverup that claimed the three men committed suicide as an “act of asymmetrical warfare.”
The military’s story has been blow to bits in large part by former Gitmo guards who have courageously put themselves at risk by coming forward with the truth.
Horton, a lawyer, has done some of the best and most courageous writing on the torture scandal. He is one of the most credible critics of Bush era abuses.
I assume there will be far more revelations coming out in the coming weeks and months on this case.
Let's see – they kidnapped, tortured, killed and lied to the American people. Gitmo was said to house the sum of all our fears, and whatever happened there, stayed there. Simultaneously with the revelations of these deaths, a movement among complicit medical bigwigs grew to "deal with the problem" of this "asymmetrical warfare" (i.e. suicide) – to save the captives from themselves by force-feeding to prevent that very form of "warfare". It looked like way to wash the hands of doctors of the very blood they were enabling to be spilled, by shifting the focus away from the captors onto the captives. I wrote to Andy Worthington about what I had seen and heard in Washington, about this political kabuki being performed at the National Academy. Am not sure now that it wasn't instigated by Pentagon types, suggesting the doctors could cover up their own complicity by "helping them" with asymmetrical warfare questions. Think the Brits had a long history of this in Ireland. Be that as it may, we aren't part of the British Empire yet. We still have our own identity, but it is eroding fast, as is the tradition of "first do no harm." This is something ripe for an investigative journalist. As an interesting post script, some scared people of largely Jewish Newton, MA are proposing a resolution before their Board of Alderman that no former Gitmo detainee ever be allowed to live in the city. Talk about covenants.
There is an error in my postscript. In fact Newton's board has actually got a proposal to welcome a former detainee to Newton, but the overwhelming public response has been so negative that it has taken on a life of its own, and opens the possibility of a counter-resolution. I think the hysteria mounted against the slim possibility of any former detainee being able to afford the pricey suburb says more about the tensions within the community than without. At the moment, the right wing is gaining ground in Massachusetts (see the Senate special election to fill the seat of Ted Kennedy). I apologize for the initial inaccuracy, but I believe that while this curious proposal was made by two members of the Board of Alderman (to welcome), this is a very polarizing proposal which can only bring out the worst in people. But you have only to look at the attitudes in Newton on the subject of pit bulls…
The Other Scott Horton will be on the show tomorrow to discuss. My first interview of him on the subject here: http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/12/11/scott-horton-…
–AWC Scott
And you can bet any investigation into this will go no where.
Certainly those high up will face no consequences for this.
Why?
Because the Amerikan Government is a government of the criminals, by the criminals, for the criminals and is the greatest criminal enterprise the world as ever known.
Damn straight.
The U.S. Government is–well, a rogue government. There's simply no other way to describe it. It attacks other countries on the basis of lies. It flouts international law and conventions at will. It props up a certain criminal Zionist state in the Middle East.
The rest of the world knows it, too.
What the CIA and the FBI understand as an acquisition solution, however, others see as a human-rights debacle. Just as thousands of political dissidents, suspected criminals, and enemies of the state were “disappeared†from Latin America over the course of several decades of CIA-funded dirty wars, so too have hundreds of “persons of interest†around the world begun to disappear as a consequence of the global war on terror, which in many ways has become a globalized version of those earlier, regional failures of democracy.
Many individual cases are well known. Binyam Mohamed, an alleged conspirator in Jose Padilla’s now debunked “dirty bomb plot,†was arrested in Karachi in 2002 and flown by the CIA to Morocco, where he was tortured for eighteen months. He eventually emerged into the non-covert prison system, as a detainee at Guantánamo, and was released earlier this year without charge. Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was arrested at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport in 2002 while on his way home from a vacation, flown by the CIA to a Syrian prison, held in a coffin-size cell for nearly a year, and then released, also without charges. Saud Memon, a Pakistani businessman rumored to own the plot of land where the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered, was arrested in 2003, held by the United States at an unknown location until 2006, then “released†to Pakistan, where in April 2007 he finally emerged, badly beaten and weighing just eighty pounds, on the doorstep of his Karachi home. He died a few weeks later.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
This is just another Brit-type mega cover up by the Mafia that now runs the USofBLOODYISRAEL.
Cover-up: Grounds for Obamanible IMPEACHMENT, and war crimes prosecution of Cheney/Bush!
And the only way this would ever become a story is if it were made so via some inter agency turf conflict and one wanted to bat the other one over the head with these maybe murders- and then it would only briefly appear and quickly fade as the bureaucratic battle fades.
If our media does expose a "scandal"- it was approved in advance and the scapegoats already lined up.
It seems that James Bovard is responsible for this piece. Sorry James,…you start with
Scott Horton of Harper’s has a great piece online on how three
detainees at Gitmo were killed during interrogations.
And I have to object, and it's by no means a minor point.. The three murder victims had been at Gitmo for years. You have to assume that they had already been utterly and completely, thoroughly and comprehensively interrogated. The results of those interrogations showed them to be completely innocent — likely "sold" for bounty. So innocent that even the military commissions/tribunals had come to accept that fact, and had ordered their imminent release. I suspect that it was these two facts — their confirmed innocence and their imminent release — that so outraged the deep "dark-siders", and prompted them to torture the three to death. In the minds of the killers it would have been something like "These terrorists are not going to get off, they are not going home, because we're going to send them to Allah first."
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