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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Guantanamo Bay staff sergeant claims three men believed to have committed suicide were actually tortured to death Staff Sgt. Joseph Hickman, a Marine veteran who reenlisted in the Maryland National Guard after 9/11, contradicts the military version of events in his new book, 'Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay.' Three men the Pentagon says killed themselves were actually tortured to death by the CIA claims a Guantanamo Bay staff sergeant. Three men the Pentagon says killed themselves were actually tortured to death by the CIA claims a Guantanamo Bay staff sergeant. It was murder. A staff sergeant at Guantanamo Bay claims to have solved one of the military prison’s greatest mysteries: Three men the Pentagon says killed themselves were actually tortured to death by the CIA. The official government line was that Yasser Talal al-Zahrani of Yemen, and Salah Ahmed al-Salami and Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, both of Saudi Arabia, killed themselves in 2006 in a suicide pact. Rear Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo, called the deaths “an asymmetric warfare committed against us.” The men were said to have hanged themselves. Staff Sgt. Joseph Hickman, a Marine veteran who reenlisted in the Maryland National Guard after 9/11, contradicts the military version of events in his new book, “Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay.” And he paints a sinister picture of the government’s use of the prison as a “battle lab” for cruelly inventive, experimental torture tactics. Staff Sgt. Joseph Hickman, a Marine veteran who reenlisted in the Maryland National Guard after 9/11, contradicts the military version of events in his new book, 'Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay.' Staff Sgt. Joseph Hickman, a Marine veteran who reenlisted in the Maryland National Guard after 9/11, contradicts the military version of events in his new book, 'Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay.' “It is my informed opinion that there were three wrongful deaths at Gitmo on June 9, 2006, while I was on duty,” Hickman wrote. The deaths of the three men — ages, 20, 30 and 37 — were a low point for Hickman, who was excited when his 629th Military Intelligence Battalion was deployed to Gitmo. “Finally, at 41, I had my chance to meet the enemy,” he wrote. Hickman proved his mettle early on in the deployment, leading a charge into a cell of rioting detainees who had soaped the floor and flung urine and feces at him and his men. When one of the prisoners came at them with a shank, he gave orders to fire a spray of 40-mm. rubber rounds that ended what had become a vicious fight. No Licensing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. dpaarchive FR VOLKER SKIERKA/FR VOLKER SKIERKA/PICTURE-ALLIAN Hickman wrote that he was already disturbed by conditions at the prison where Navy guards would routinely taunt the prisoners into a frenzy. It was possibly the first time such an order had been given at Gitmo, and it earned Hickman a commendation for “exemplary leadership.” But, Hickman wrote, he was already disturbed by conditions at the prison where Navy guards would routinely taunt the prisoners into a frenzy. While he harbored little innate sympathy for the detainees, whom he saw as America’s enemies, the “racism, the brutality, the chaos,” got to him. One night, he stumbled on what was later confirmed as a secret CIA holding center, a “black site” that he nicknamed Camp No. There was a definite “disconnect between stated procedures and actual practices at Gitmo,” he wrote. The night the prisoners died, Hickman headed the platoon guarding Camp Delta. At 6:30 p.m., standing in a north tower, he saw a prisoner escorted from Alpha Block into a white van with blackened windows. The van soon returned for another detainee. The deaths of the three men — ages, 20, 30 and 37 — were a low point for Hickman (pictured), who was excited when his 629th Military Intelligence Battalion was deployed to Gitmo. The deaths of the three men — ages, 20, 30 and 37 — were a low point for Hickman (pictured), who was excited when his 629th Military Intelligence Battalion was deployed to Gitmo. When the van returned a third time, Hickman raced to a vantage point where he could see where the van was going. Rather than turn right to the naval station, the van took the road leading to Camp No. At 11:30 p.m., the van returned, this time heading for the medical clinic. “Everything changed,” he wrote. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5.
#1. To: Ada (#0)
From: "Close Guantanamo — then give it back to Cuba" Col. Morris Davis was the chief prosecutor in Guantanamo from 2005 to 2007. He resigned, after an appointee of George W. Bush overrode his decision forbidding the use of evidence collected under torture. Davis later told me, “I was convinced we weren’t committed to having full, fair and open trials, and this was going to be more political theater than it was going to be justice.” Obama did create a special envoy for Guantanamo closure, although the person who most recently held the position, Cliff Sloan, abruptly resigned at the end of December without giving a reason. In a just-published opinion piece in The New York Times, Sloan wrote, “As a high-ranking security official from one of our staunchest allies on counterterrorism (not from Europe) once told me, ‘The greatest single action the United States can take to fight terrorism is to close Guantanamo.'”
I disagree. As a recommendation, the United States of America should simply mind its own business as a single nation, truly working for its own citizenry as opposed to all this non-nonsensical international intrigue.
Sure. I think there's a bit of hyperbole in that statement. There are a number concrete actions we could take that would take us off the target list of extremists - like pulling our troops out of places where they don't belong and withdrawing our militant support for Shittylittlestan. But closing down that hell hole and ceding that bit of territory back to Cuba would be acts of immense symbolic significance. BTW, I was in Miami last week and I saw a 737 parked at the terminal in "Havana Air" livery. There are regular flights to Havana and Santa Clara now, though there's no straight tourism from US soil yet. I won't hold my breath of course, but it will be interesting to see how the Guantanamo card is played by both sides now as Washington seeks some sort of accommodation with Havana.
Hyperbole? There hasn't been any prisoner admissions into US Guantanamo restraining facilities for years. The place is blemished not by prisoner admissions into the facilities but by prisoner releases through a US President that is otherwise out of control by not just a derelict Congress but also supported by an apathetic, and over-taxed People.
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