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The Definitive Guantanamo
The intrepid Andy Worthington has published an update on his four-year project to record the stories of all 779 prisoners ever held at Guantanamo - at least 93 percent of whom, he notes, were completely innocent, seized as a result of dubious intelligence, or part of an inter-Muslim civil war unrelated to terrorism. Especially in the wake of the Christmas plane bomb scare and the resulting scaremongering, he adds, his goal is the same: to close Gitmo.
It is my hope that this project will provide an invaluable research tool for those seeking to understand how it came to pass that the government of the United States turned its back on domestic and international law, establishing torture as official US policy, and holding men without charge or trial neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects to be put forward for trial in a federal court, but as "illegal enemy combatants."
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Show Alladmirable effort...well done, mr. worthington, sir...
scapegoat city...
mr worthington deserves all the praise available for his dilligent work in documenting these 'tortured' prisoners..............
In the future intractible issues will be known as being in need of a good ole' worthington.
Good on ya Andy Worthington! There is no 'thank you' big enough. May you live long and prosper and may the book go into millions of hands and minds and raise the standard.
I must say i am very glad to see CD post this, as Worthingon's files are a tremendous store of information towards exposing the great lie that is the "War on Terror." What these men's stories tell, like the stories of the American men who handled them and who gave the orders, is yet more light thrown on the dark truths that other investigation and guerilla journalism have also helped to reveal, findings not always given equal airing by the directors of this forum. It seems the documentation of this terrible era will be perhaps its one saving grace. The horrible truth will, more or less, be one day revealed, when those in power no longer have a political stake at risk from its exposure. This is the task thus far being fulfilled by these independent researchers and us, their audience. What the mainstream still pales to admit will overwhelm it by its sheer mass. Truth has a way of doing that.