"According to the NCIS [U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service] documents, each prisoner had fashioned a noose from torn sheets and T-shirts and tied it to the top of his cell’s eight-foot-high steel-mesh wall. Each prisoner was able somehow to bind his own hands, and, in at least one case, his own feet, then stuff more rags deep down into his own throat. We are then asked to believe that each prisoner, even as he was choking on those rags, climbed up on his washbasin, slipped his head through the noose, tightened it, and leapt from the washbasin to hang until he asphyxiated. The NCIS report also proposes that the three prisoners, who were held in non-adjoining cells, carried out each of these actions almost simultaneously."
"You can't handle the truth!" (But Col. Jessep was convicted.)
[This is from a January 18, 2010, article by Scott Horton in Harper's Magazine entitled The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle. The three men who died at Guantanamo on the night of June 9, 2006, had been held for years; none of them had been charged with a crime. Horton's article recounts the horrifying details.]
"This is the official story, adopted by NCIS and Guantánamo command and reiterated by the Justice Department in formal pleadings, by the Defense Department in briefings and press releases, and by the State Department. Now four members of the Military Intelligence unit assigned to guard Camp Delta, including a decorated non-commissioned Army officer who was on duty as sergeant of the guard the night of June 9, have furnished an account dramatically at odds with the NCIS report—a report for which they were neither interviewed nor approached."
0 comments:
Post a Comment