The Pentagon paid $370,000 to rent an MRI for Guantanamo. It doesn't work.

[TexasTowelie]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- There’s a problem with a mobile MRI unit being leased by the Pentagon for $370,000 to scan a suspected terrorist’s brain as a prelude to his death-penalty trial, a prosecutor announced in court Tuesday.

Army Col. John Wells disclosed the issue during pretrial hearings in the case against Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 52, a Saudi man awaiting a death-penalty trial as the suspected architect of the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors.

Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the trial judge, ordered the forensic scan in 2015. Wells told Spath that the magnetic resonance imaging equipment “is not functional and operational,” and requires maintenance.

The equipment has been parked for about a month outside the base’s Navy hospital.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article184624408.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. rental company needs to fix it -pretty simple

[lpbk2713]

2. Did anyone try kicking it?

Maybe a few whacks with a heavy hammer will fix it right up.

[area51]

4. Maybe they could call in these guys, I hear they're cheap.

[sharedvalues]

3. If we actually had them in a real US federal prison, they'd already HAVE an MRI machine.

Or one nearby.

This extra-constitutional bullshit about holding prisoners in Cuba is wrong.