Detainees Charges Dubious
There is well-worn maxim which acknowledges that, if asked, all prisoners say they are innnocent of the crime for which they were sentenced. Criminals, afterall, are not the most credible among us.
It seems there is a parrallel when it comes to how the detainees at Guantanamo descibe their treatment; they say that the guards are abusive. What a revelation? Prisoners claim they are being mistreated, and they are innocent too. Right (heavy sarcasm).
It may be that the Newsweeak story about a Koran being flushed down a toilet is a case of a captive blaming the guard for an action of the captive.
Pentagon officials have said recently that the public claims by released detainees were not credible and that the terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay had been trained to make such false claims.Indeed, the FBI records cite at least one instance in which a detainee is said to have falsely claimed that a guard had dropped a Quran. "In actuality the detainee dropped the Quran and then blamed the guard. Many other detainees reacted to this claim," the FBI document said, and that sparked an uprising "on or about 19-20 July 2002."
How big should that headline be in your local newspaper? Very big, indeed.
Comments
You've got to be kidding me. Sorry to troll your post, but this entry is pretty far out. How, as a Republican, can you actually justify the detention of anyone without due process? Newsflash: the majority of prisoners in Gitmo are innocent, including the two murdered prisoners cited in the recent NY Times article.
It's one thing to espouse conservative values (whatever those are these days); it's quite another to make excuses for anti-American, anti-constitutional behavior.
Shame on you.
Posted by: GN | May 26, 2005 01:42 PM
Thanks, GN. I've been looking for the right occasion to use this.
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May 26, 2005 02:59 PM
GN, they were given due process, they were duly found to be enemy combatants, out of uniform, and endangering our citizens in uniform.
As such they are not guaranteed rights you wish them to receive, neither under our constitution, nor even under the international standard known as the Geneva Conventions.
Where is your proof that the majority of the prisoners in gitmo are innocent, (insert Chris's laughtrack here), and where is the link to the NYT article you reference? Nowhere that I can see.
Oh, and btw, I can live with the kind of shame you wish upon me; it is as empty as your rhetoric. (re-insert Chris's laughtrack)
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May 26, 2005 11:50 PM
Oookay. Let's see if we can wrap our minds around this liberal leap of illogic.
Our uniformed men come across people not wearing a uniform, who are either holding an AK-47, a Grenade, or a bomb harness, and instead of simply killing said people (Which I would have done, since they were pointing a weapon at me,) they arrested them, took them to Guantanemo Bay Naval Base and interrogated them. While in said prison, they get to pray five times a day, read their Koran, eat better than they've eaten before, and are occassionally kept up all night, while having to listen to Twisted sister or Metallica and that is considered torture?
What would the mighty liberals have us do? Let them go, and personally walk them to their next bomb sight?
Here's a clue for liberals..if they aren't in uniform, and aren't from a country that has signed the Geneva Conventions, they should have been shot as spies.
Posted by: Joe Wiess | May 27, 2005 06:47 AM