Gitmo policy--making us more vulnerable

[spindrifter]

*'s and Dickie bird's play book need revisions before we get shunned by everyone:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1646305,00.html

UN team denied free access to Guantánamo detainees

Owen Bowcott
Saturday November 19, 2005

UN human rights investigators yesterday condemned the US for denying them free access on fact-finding visits to the Guantánamo Bay base, where hundreds of detainees are being held without trial.

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"There has been an alarming deterioration in the health and mental health of the inmates," said Paul Hunt, one of the five UN special rapporteurs. "There's been sleep deprivation, other coercive methods and suicide attempts. The best way to check on these allegations is to visit, to talk privately to detainees and to talk to military staff. International human rights do not stop at the gates of Guantánamo. The rule of law cannot be turned on and off like a tap."


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Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general, called for full disclosure to expose the US "globalised network of torture and ill-treatment". She said: "Guantánamo is just the visible tip of an iceberg of abuse, the most notorious link in a chain of detention camps, including Bagram air base in Afghanistan, prisons in Iraq and secret facilities elsewhere."

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"If this continues ... violence and terrorism will only proliferate. Part of the denial that Tony Blair has taken since the July 7 bombings has to do with Guantánamo. He is not in tune with the political reality of how people feel."

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[methinks2]

1. Shameful

These men can't be allowed to continue this treatment. WE must continue speaking out everywhere we are. The bank, the grocery store, everywhere. The sheep will follow our lead.