Gitmo Detainees Get Russian Propaganda From U.S. Military
Source: The Daily Beast
The detention facilitys most notorious terror suspects have only one option for English-language television news: RT, the Kremlin-backed network.
SPENCER ACKERMAN
07.03.17 1:00 AM ET
The secretive wing of Guantanamo Bay reserved for the highest-priority terrorist suspects is an unlikely place for Russian propaganda.
But letters from one of its long-term residents indicate that for at least two years, the only English-language news accessible to these survivors of CIA black sites is RT, the Kremlin channel that loves to broadcast whatever makes America look terrible.
Guantanamo officials would not comment on why RT, which U.S. intelligence considers a key component of Vladimir Putins global messaging, gets shown in Gitmos Camp 7. Inmates there include confessed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Another one of those cellmates is Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani. Apprehended by the CIA in Pakistan in 2007, Afghani has written to his attorney voluminouslydisplaying a Seinfeld-esque sense of humor unexpected from a man who was once forced awake for so long he hallucinated. But among Afghanis observations is that he and the 14 other Camp 7 detainees are fed a media diet heavy on RT.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)under the "leadership" of their freaking republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, the notorious Comrade Casino.
Shameful Velveeta-noshing, vodka-swilling republican Surrender Monkeys.
Weird.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)I read something not too long ago about Fox News being the preferred news source for many military installations. It's surprising that U.S. military chose RT for Guantanamo detainees, but why? This is not new so Trumpettes didn't choose it. I would really like to know who made this decision and why.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)I'm curious as to the reason. One would think Fox News or any of the American channels would be preferred. Or even PBS.
And I suppose many are still waiting for a plan to do something with the remaining detainees. Obama has transferred many of them out leaving the most difficult cases with Trump, to probably do nothing about.