Guantanamo force-feeding sketch censored

[DogPoundPup]

Source: AP

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The United States has censored a gruesome drawing by a Guantanamo Bay detainee depicting him as a skeleton and being force-fed at the military prison, the man's lawyers said Monday as they released a recreation of the sketch.
The detainee, Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese cameramen for the Al-Jazeera TV network, marked his 431st day on hunger strike Monday at Guantanamo, the American base in Cuba where the U.S. holds some 275 men suspected of terrorism or links with al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

"My picture reflects my nightmares of what I must look like, with my head double-strapped down, a tube in my nose, a black mask over my mouth, with no eyes and only giant cheekbones," al-Haj said in a statement released by the British legal rights group Reprieve.

The lawyers said they commissioned a political cartoonist, Lewis Peake, to recreate four of al-Haj's drawings, based on descriptions of the censored originals, to reveal "aspects of the prisoners' suffering in U.S. custody."


Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-03-17-guantanamo-sketch_N.htm

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[Sam Ervin jret]

1. absolutely disgraceful

The behavior being done in our name by this administration is reprehensible.

If you had a soul or a heart Mrs. Bush and Cheney, I would admonish you and say shame. Shame on you and all those who stand with you and to those who could have and should have stopped you but chose not to.

I know it falls on deaf ears, dead hearts and souls bought and paid for.

[NanceGreggs]

2. "Dead hearts and souls ...

... bought and paid for."

Amen.

[freefall]

3. I am so ashamed and feel so completely powerless. n/t

[Supersedeas]

4. winning the hearts and minds