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Guantánamo: What the World Should Know

Posted by Narco News - February 7, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Guantanamo: What the World Should Know on Narco News
By Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray
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Introduction

Chapter 1: Guantánamo Bay and Rule by Executive Fiat

Chapter 2: Abuse and Torture

Chapter 3: Testimony and Case Details

Chapter 4: Military Comissions and the Supreme Court

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Rumsfeld Lies Without Even Being Tortured

Submitted February 17, 2005 - 12:01 pm by Benjamin Melançon
At a Senate hearing Wednesday Senators questioned US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about a proposal to spend $42 million on the Guantánamo Bay detention center, reported on AlJazeera.net:

"The detention facility upgrades, I am told, that you see in the budget for Guantanamo, are to meet Geneva Convention standards," Rumsfeld said.

"And since," Rumsfeld continued, "it's not knowable how long they will be there, what we are doing is carrying out a US government policy that exists and trying to do it to the best extent it can be done," he said.

Now that's a tortured statement if I ever saw one.  The Geneva Conventions, which the U.S. government still argues does not apply to the people it is holding at Guntánamo, are now being used to ask for more money to pour into the hell-hole to hold people (without trial) for unknown periods of time.

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