158 Innocent Men Held At Gitmo - U.S. Media Indifferent?

[HolyCity2012]

Run time: 06:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpSJrCeOus   Posted on YouTube: April 26, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 305   Posted on DU: April 26, 2011 By DU Member: HolyCity2012 Views on DU: 940

 
Wikileaks documents show that 158 innocent men were held at Gitmo. Does the American media care? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

http://www.theyoungturks.com/
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Guantánamo Bay files: Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time
Almost half of 212 Afghan prisoners either innocent or forced to fight for Taliban, while foreigners were simply rounded up
Monday 25 April 2011

Among the most dismaying stories to emerge is that of three hapless Tajiks caught up in a roundup of foreigners in Karachi in 2002.

The trio appear to have spent almost two years being interrogated and maltreated, first at the notorious Bagram airbase, and then at Guantánamo, before being released.

The prison files reveal that they were listed as "enemy combatants" on arrival , but turned out to be entirely innocent.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-wrong-place-time
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Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison
• Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts
• Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held
• 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release
• Interactive guide to all 779 detainees
Monday 25 April 2011

More than 700 leaked secret files on the Guantánamo detainees lay bare the inner workings of America's controversial prison camp in Cuba.

The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called "worst of the worst", many prisoners were flown to the Guantánamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, or on the basis of lurid confessions extracted by maltreatment.

The 759 Guantánamo files, classified "secret", cover almost every inmate since the camp was opened in 2002. More than two years after President Obama ordered the closure of the prison, 172 are still held there.

The files depict a system often focused less on containing dangerous terrorists or enemy fighters, than on extracting intelligence. Among inmates who proved harmless were an 89-year-old Afghan villager, suffering from senile dementia, and a 14-year-old boy who had been an innocent kidnap victim .


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-lift-lid-prison
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'Guantanamo files': Dozens held were innocent

Leaked files reveal details of interrogations of "high-risk" detainees, but suggest many innocents were also rounded up.
25 Apr 2011

The United States released dozens of so-called "high-risk" detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military documents.

The more than 700 classified military files, part of a massive cache of secret documents leaked to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks , were made available to select US and European media outlets and made public on Sunday.

It was not clear if the media outlets published the documents with the consent of WikiLeaks - and it was not immediately possible to independently verify all of the leaked documents.

The files are reported to reveal new information about some of the men held at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including details of the more than 700 detainee interrogations and evidence the US had collected against the "terror" suspects.

The files - called Detainee Assessment Briefs or DABs - describe the security intelligence value of the detainees and whether they would be a threat to the US and its allies if released.

'High-risk' threat

To date, 604 inmates have been transferred out of Guantanamo while 172 remain detained.


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/04/201142561524783918.html
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[Democracyinkind]

1. The US media is indifferent to the issue and so are the American people.

We just don't care and we never did care what goes on down there. That's why we've got such facilities and others don't.

[HolyCity2012]

3. I am unable to argue with that assessment.

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[markpkessinger]

8. They are indifferent. Yet . . .

. . . God forbid even one American working for Halliburton or Blackwater/XE -- a person whose entire reason for being there is to profit off the misery our own country has inflicted -- gets his ass kidnapped, then the media are all on top of it. Disgusting.

[HolyCity2012]

2. Orwell Rolls in his Grave

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE provides a vital forum for ideas that will never be heard in mainstream media. From Globalvision’s Danny Schechter: “We falsely think of our country as a democracy when it has evolved into a mediacracy – where a media that is supposed to check political abuse is part of the political abuse.” NYU media professor Mark Crispin Miller says, “Goebbels said that what you want in a media system – he meant the Nazi media system - is to present the ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity.”

From the very size of the media monopolies and how they got that way to who decides what gets on the air and what doesn’t, ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE moves through a troubling list of questions and news stories that go unanswered and unreported in the mainstream media.

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE reminds us that 1984 is not just a date in the future.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x559676

[L. Coyote]

5. "Indifferent" is not the apt adjective. The M$M is a bought and paid for "propaganda machine."

HUGH difference that!

[HolyCity2012]

7. well put

Maybe you could take a moment of your time to send Cenk Uygur an email with your astute critique.


"HUGH difference that!" to you too my friend.


p.s. You did notice the question mark following the word "indifferent"...?

[NCcoast]

6. 'Maybe I'm the sucker who belived in America'

Exactly... maybe I'm that guy too. 'Who thought that we cared about human rights, who thought that we cared about rule of law.' We've thrown it all away while the corporate media distracted us with Jack-o and missing cheerleaders. This country is toast. Maybe the whole collapse has been engineered so that those left with money and power can usher in a new age of feudalism.

[ejbr]

9. k & r n/t