Hicks getting worse: lawyer

[cal04]

The US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says his client's condition has deteriorated.

Major Michael Mori will address a candlelit vigil for Hicks in Adelaide tonight, and says his client has been in solitary confinement for about five months.

"He's not doing well, he's locked in a cement room, steel door, 24 hours a day where they leave the lights on 24 hours a day," he said.

(snip)
"David was in the category of the best behaviour at Guantanamo - he's never been a problem. There's no reason for it."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1722240.htm

[OnyxCollie]

1. That's sick.

But no bones were broken, or organs destroyed, so it's O.K.
:sarcasm:
Isn't that right, Gonzo?

[libhill]

2. Gee golly -

why does the entire world hate our wonderful country?

[Judi Lynn]

3. According to Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, Hicks should be on his knees

thanking the almighty for the fine privileges those wonderful people at Guantanamo have given him.



Congressman Duncan Hunter eats meal based on menu for Guantanamo detainees (VOA Photo D. Robinson)

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Displaying a plate of food based on meals detainees at Guantanamo regularly receive, he criticizes what he calls fictions being circulated by human rights and other groups about how prisoners are treated:

"The inmates in Guantanamo have never eaten better, they have never been treated better, and they have never been more comfortable in their lives than in this situation, and the idea that somehow we are torturing people in Guantanamo is absolutely not true, unless you consider having to eat chicken three times a week, real torture," Mr. Hunter said.
(snip/...)http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-06/2005-06-14-voa1.cfm?CFID=39333301&CFTOKEN=37121894

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Apparently there's no pleasing some people! :sarcasm:

[Vidar]

4. Bush & Howard should hang from the same rope.

[Kailassa]

5. No, they should be put in a space-capsule with BLiar.

Having to endure the company of each other
would be far worse punishment than hanging.

[Vidar]

6. Acceptable alternative, but I'd hate to have humanity judged on

the basis of first contact with those three.

[Kailassa]

7. Ohh, you're right.

Any intelligent aliens would wipe mankind out forever
if they met only those idiots. Especially if they
discovered they were all democratically elected
national leaders..
Well, 2 of the 3 were, anyway.