Remember now - Gitmo is a Vacation Paradise - now throw those garlands for Rummy

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/-sp-guantanamo-diary-exposes-brutality-us-rendition-torture
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The groundbreaking memoir of a current Guantánamo inmate that lays bare the harrowing details of the US rendition and torture programme from the perspective of one of its victims is to be published next week after a six-year battle for the manuscript to be declassified.

Guantánamo Diary, the first book written by a still imprisoned detainee, is being published in 20 countries and has been serialised by the Guardian amid renewed calls by civil liberty campaigners for its author’s release.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi describes a world tour of torture and humiliation that began in his native Mauritania more than 13 years ago and progressed through Jordan and Afghanistan before he was consigned to US detention in Guantánamo, Cuba, in August 2002 as prisoner number 760. US military officials told the Guardian this week that despite never being prosecuted and being cleared for release by a judge in 2010, he is unlikely to be released in the next year.

The journal, which Slahi handwrote in English, details how he was subjected to sleep deprivation, death threats, sexual humiliation and intimations that his torturers would go after his mother.

[daleanime]

1. Kick....

because we're the good guys.

[abelenkpe]

2. We're never gonna be able to live down this shame. nt

[daleanime]

3. No, even if we started a sane foreign policy right now....

it would take generations to fix the damage.

[malaise]

6. Listen to the hacks

They don't even acknowledge that this was done - don't you hear them - 'we civilized, everyone else barbarian'; we freedom and democracy - everyone else terrorist - radical islamist.

So either you STFU and let us invade, occupy, overthrow, or we will torture or slaughter you - for our freedoms.
I give up for humanity/

[Vattel]

4. Bush should be on his knees weeping and begging for the forgiveness of his countless victims.

But that would require basic human decency on his part.

[malaise]

7. Don't hold your breath

They're working on the brother now

[Jefferson23]

5. Recommend. n/t