Crazy talk -Al-Qaeda might attack Guantanamo, claims US attorneys
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Los Angeles, United States of America - Al-Qaeda may attempt to attack the Guantanamo Bay prison and free the men who are detained there - if the US government is compelled to reveal certain details regarding the genital searches of prisoners, the Justice Department has said in court documents.
In a 13-page brief filed on Friday in federal court in Washington, DC, government lawyers assert that a June 3 declaration signed by Guantanamo prison warden Colonel John Bogdan, which sought to justify the rationale behind the genital search policy, contains details about "operational-security and force-protection procedures" that, if made public, "would better enable our enemies to attack the detention facilities at Guantanamo or undermine security at the facility
"Protecting these operational-security and force-protection procedures from the public remains critically important, as evidenced by the recent al-Qaeda attacks on prisons at Abu Ghraib and Taji in Iraq," the Justice Department's brief says.
"Those attacks killed 16 Iraqi guards and released hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners. Of note, Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's leader, identified the [Joint Task Force-Guantanamo] detention facilities as a target during a 22-minute video posted July 31, 2013, stating: 'The terror network will spare no effort to free prisoners held at the US military-run detention centre in Cuba.'"
The government made these claims in response to a motion to intervene filed by this reporter in federal court last month which sought to unseal Bogdan's six-page declaration. Journalists can intervene in court cases and argue for the release of certain materials on the grounds that the public has a right of access to judicial records.
http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/08/2013851618340986.html
These Genital searches will
wait wtf?
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