Lawyers call Gitmo uprising 'rubbish': Inside story of Guantanamo

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Breaking point: Inside story of the Guantanamo uprising
The camp commander's claims of a co-ordinated revolt are challenged by new details of the violence.

The prison camps at Guantanamo Bay were gripped by a series of uprisings and disturbances last week which suggest a state of near revolt, it emerged yesterday. Reports from within the controversial detention centre in Cuba claim the base's military commanders believe there were links between a series of suicide attempts, medical emergencies and the violent clashes between 20 inmates and guards on Thursday.

It was "probably the most violent outbreak" in the camp's four-year history, claimed Rear Admiral Harry Harris, the detention and interrogation centre's commander. "These are dangerous men and determined jihadists," he said.
The base's authorities suspect the incidents were co-ordinated and fed off each other, but one former inmate and two lawyers raised substantial doubts about the US military's account of the disturbances.

Moazzam Begg, the Birmingham bookshop owner released from the camp last year, said the detention cells were too closely monitored and controlled for inmates to organise a revolt so well. Clive Stafford Smith and Brent Mickum, defence lawyers who regularly visit clients in the base, said they suspected the official accounts were "rubbish".

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Mr Stafford Smith and Mr Mickum, who represent detainees with close ties to the UK, said these unusually detailed and immediate accounts by the US authorities confirmed the Bush administration had begun a public relations offensive to rebuild support for the camp.

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[mr_hat]

1. They hate us for our hygiene!

[Peace Patriot]

2. Ah! The truth comes out! If men, randomly kidnapped from their

countries, conveyed under brutal conditions thousands of miles from their homes, blindfolded, stripped, kept in cages, beaten and tortured without mercy, and imprisoned without charge or hope of release for five years now, in THE tightest security prison on earth, are "dangerous men and determined jihadists," is that not a colossal failure of those who are imprisoning them? They should be blithering idiots by now, unable to organize getting a cup of water--and automatically saluting every time they see an American flag.

On the other hand, if I'd been treated like that, I think I might be a bit dangerous, too. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A JIHADIST TO HATE UNJUST IMPRISONMENT AND TORTURE!

Dangerous, my ass. We KNOW who's dangerous!

Thank God for Mr. Smith and Mr. Mickum, and all truth-tellers!

[Disturbed]

3. Guantanamo Gulag is an American Shame.

Imagine what those secret prisons are like.

Is there a stronger word than disgust? If so that's how I feel about the Neo Fascist Regime that has taken over the USA.

[radwriter0555]

4. Those dangerous jihadist sheep herders are a menace to society and it's

the US's duty to protect the world from them.