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Title: Military Force Feeding 10% of Guantamo Detainees
Source:
Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Milit ... percent_of_Guanatamo_0108.html
Published: Jan 9, 2009
Author: John Byrne
Post Date: 2009-01-09 06:43:34 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 144
Comments: 3
Ten percent of captives at the US Guantanamo Bay prison -- many of whom have never been charged of a crime -- are having their heads velcroed to chairs and forced to take in nutritional supplements by a tube forcibly inserted through their noses by US guards. Twenty-five captives who've starved themselves for weeks are being fed through tubes in their noses, the US military admitted Thursday. Thirty detainees are currently on a hunger strike. A lawyer for 17 Yemeni men told a Miami Herald reporter Thursday that the hunger strike was partly in response to the US decision to release Osama Bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan in November. Hamdan was charged with supporting terrorism and was held just shy of his 66-month sentence; many of those on the hunger strike have never been charged with a crime. ''They've actually gone ballistic at the fact that Hamdan, who was convicted of supporting terrorism, was released and they, who have been charged with nothing, continue to languish there,'' Washington lawyer David Remes told Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg. The Pentagon considers hunger strikers as detainees who've refused nine meals in a row. Detainees are force fed after fasting for 21 days or weight less than 85 percent of their weight upon arrival at the camp. "The forced-feeding regime has guards and medical staff strap a captive into a chair, Velcro his head to a metal restraint, then tether a tube into the man's stomach through his nose to pump in liquid nourishment twice a day," Rosenberg writes. "A military commission this summer convicted Hamdan, 40, of supporting terror for working as bin Laden's $200-a-month driver in Afghanistan until his capture in November 2001," she added.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Didn't Limbaugh call this "Club Gitmo"? As an aside, I've read that Limbaugh consummated none of his three marriages. Interesting, considering his mentor in radio was a homo who, if I remember correctly died of AIDs. I once met some lisping homosexual who had a cat named "Pumpkin," Limbaugh also has a cat named Pumpkin.
Have pug, will laugh.
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Ezekiel 17:7-10 www.blueletterbible.org/B...fm?b=Eze&c=17&v=7&t=KJV#7 - 10 Ezekiel 17:1-6 "vine", verse 6; I AM the TRUE vine... John 15:1-2, 4-6 www.blueletterbible.org/B...fm?b=Jhn&c=15&v=1&t=KJV#1 Matthew 15:13 www.blueletterbible.org/B...&x=69&y=9&b=Mat&c=15&v=13 Anytime now, Lord, would be ok by me.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
#2. To: Ada (#0)
USRAHELL
#3. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#2)
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