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2006-12-07 Terror Networks

Big Doins at the Gitmo Biograph & Burger Emporium

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Posted by .com 2006-12-07 03:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 .com, just knew that was your headline.

Posted by phil_b 2006-12-07 07:57|| 2006-12-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Fast foods? Dou you know how much trans-fats they contain?

Posted by Mayor Bloomberg 2006-12-07 09:09|| 2006-12-07 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 It is well known that the two most effective methods of obtaining information, by a very wide margin, are coffee and cigarettes.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-07 09:28|| 2006-12-07 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Last year, military investigators, responding to complaints made by FBI agents assigned to Guantanamo, found that a detainee had been threatened with dogs, kept in solitary confinement for 160 days...

The FBI had no problem holding Wen Ho Lee in solitary for nine months. Guess its ok when they do it and Billy Boy was the CinC.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-07 09:48|| 2006-12-07 09:48|| Front Page Top

#5 most held at the prison for nearly five years without charges

Technically, being an unlawful enemy combatant is a species of charge against them. It's not a criminal charge, but then they're not mere criminals.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-12-07 13:04|| 2006-12-07 13:04|| Front Page Top

#6 It's been found that certain viruses can cause profound obesity in humans, even if the victims have a low-calorie diet. If they have a high calorie diet already, well, they just balloon up.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-07 13:40|| 2006-12-07 13:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Those who cooperate have been allowed to eat sandwiches from a Subway restaurant on the base and watch movies and soccer games in the interrogation rooms. While detainees are typically allowed to keep only one book a week from the prison library, a letter from their interrogator can qualify them for a second, he said.

Nothing described here is any worse than a bad night of fraternity hazing at your local college campus. But, I noted the quote above, and wondered....maybe these guys aren't hardcore really. How many can read, much less need a 2nd book. I mean, what other book do you need besides the KO-ran, right? /sarc

Posted by BA 2006-12-07 15:00|| 2006-12-07 15:00|| Front Page Top

#8 phil_b - :-) I wuz channeling Fred, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-12-07 15:04|| 2006-12-07 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 most held at the prison for nearly five years without charges

A number of German, Italiand and Japanese were detained without charges for years. They were called prisonners of war.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-12-07 15:50|| 2006-12-07 15:50|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't see any illegal activity anywhere in this article. I've suffered worse "abuses" in training, and on more than one occasion. Wonder what these guys would say to marching in 20-degree weather for three or four hours, back and forth on a windswept parade ground. Sounds like we're holding a bunch of wimps to me.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-07 16:20|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-07 16:20|| Front Page Top

#11 most held at the prison for nearly five years without charges

Moroccan draftees captured by algeria were held in dire secret underground or desert prison camps, without any kind of communication with the outside world, for more than 25 years (the last ones were released between 2002-2004 IIRC). They were mistreated, undernurished, were used as forced blood donors, chained day and night,...

There was NO international, and even less muslim, outcry about this. Compare to gitmo-the-gulag-of-our-times thingie.

And I won't even mention the french civilians made prisoner made AFTER the "independence" war has ended, with the women sent to brothels, and the men literally enslaved to work in mines.

There literally are two kinds of humans beings : the Good ones, as decreted by the Forces of Progress, and the others, who just don't matter. Not a new feature, that was already the case with the Ukrainian famine, and hasn't changed a bit since.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-07 16:26|| 2006-12-07 16:26|| Front Page Top

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