Red Cross Says "Torture" Occurring At Guantanamo Bay

[TheGeneral+]

The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the tactics used on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the US military as "tantamount to torture," The New York Times reported this week.

In June of this year, the Red Cross inspected the facilities at Guantanamo Bay and reported the US military used psychological and at times, physical coercion on prisoners.

The Red Cross refused to confirm or deny the NY Times report. However, a spokesman at the Pentagon confirmed the Red Cross report contains details the refer to "torture" reported by the Times.

Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strongly dismissed the Red Cross allegations. “We certainly don’t think it’s torture,” Myers said.

Myers indicated interrogations at Guantanamo Bay had been done, “according to all the laws and treaties that we signed up to, and for basic human decency and human rights.”

The confidential Red Cross report was sent in July to the White House, Pentagon and State Department, however, the NY Times broke the story when it obtained a memo outlining the report.

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[docmercer--banned]

according to Limbaugh ...

probably just a "college fraternity prank"

 

[GAMEFACE]

More of nothing...

Were any heads lopped off?

 

[eek.]

I'm surprised the Iraqis havent kept a few yanks in dogcages over the last couple of years.

The trend seems to be more towards anarchy.
Two Italian women and a Pole get released while a western woman married to an Iraqi and in-country for 30 years gets executed.

Sounds to me like there's a kidnap & ransom culture, but the media won't even go there.

I notice troop levels are being upped to 150k now, and a whole bunch of military are getting their tours extended....again.

 

[GAMEFACE]

More bombs less troops, the pc shakles must be shed or we can't win.

 

[eek.]

The Iraq invasion must be one of the shortest lived liberations in human history.

 

[PatPatriot]

Gee I wonder when the Red Cross report on N Korea is going to come out on their prison conditions...or how about Castro and Cuba itself prison conditions,or how about Irans prison conditions.

Did anybody see the report from Sudan?....or gee I must have missed the other one in Iraq that Zarawacky runs...anybody see that report?.

Another America bashing outfit that would be bumming money from the salvation army if it wasn't from America.

 

[GAMEFACE]

Gee I wonder when the Red Cross report on N Korea is going to come out on their prison conditions...or how about Castro and Cuba itself prison conditions,or how about Irans prison conditions.

Did anybody see the report from Sudan?....or gee I must have missed the other one in Iraq that Zarawacky runs...anybody see that report?.

Another America bashing outfit that would be bumming money from the salvation army if it wasn't from America.

100% correct.

Some ol sh!t different day.

 

[GAMEFACE]

If you give these terrorist the choice to relocate to a Cuban prison or stay put 99 out of 100 stays put.

 

[eek.]

If you give these terrorist the choice to relocate to a Cuban prison or stay put 99 out of 100 stays put.

Hey. You could give the Guantanamo political prisoners that option.

:>Grin> :>Grin>

Bet you a dollar there would be a huge dust cloud as they scampered en-masse for the Cuban frontier and Papa Fidels Cuba.

heh. For some, even Cuba is more appealing than US soil.

 

[GAMEFACE]

eekster,

ya like the cubans that attempt the milk carton floats to florida. i'm still waiting for the first americans that try to make it to cuba, it just doesn't happen.

 

[kayaman+]

I love righties.