A Murder Mystery at Guantanamo Bay

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Murder-Mystery-at-Guanta-by-Ray-McGovern-Guantanamo-Prison_Murder_Torture-141010-347.html



President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney receive an Oval Office briefing from CIA Director George Tenet. Also present is Chief of Staff Andy Card (on right).

A Murder Mystery at Guantanamo Bay
By Ray McGovern
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/10/2014 at 18:40:22

There's more of a mystery to how three Guantanamo detainees died on June 10, 2006, than I realized when I described their deaths as suicides in a recent article about force-feeding methods at the notorious U.S. prison. Some very experienced investigators who have examined the evidence suspect the three were victims of homicides amid the torture regime employed by President George W. Bush's underlings.

Scott Horton, whose upcoming book Lords of Secrecy contains new insights into the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Tenet go-ahead on torture and other abuses, has supplied me with additional detail highly suggestive of foul play by CIA interrogators.

Horton noted that the three prisoners were scheduled to be released and repatriated, and that key details about the U.S. government's suicide claims have been disproved. For instance, the first reports said the inmates had hanged themselves with linens in their jail cells, but medical records, which the government sought to suppress, indicate otherwise.

The records "reveal that the three died not from strangulation (as would be the case in a hanging) but from asphyxiation resulting from having cloth stuffed down their throats -- precisely the same kind of cloth, it turns out, that was used by a similar interrogation team around the same time at the Charleston Brig, and which has been labeled by a University of California study as 'dryboarding,'" Horton wrote in an email.

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1. The suicide explanation was extremely suspect from the beginning. nt