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Sparkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 11:50 AM
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GREAT Thomas Wilner article on U.S. gulag on Cuban soil, GUANTANAMO!
In case we forget just who our GLORIUS military really is...from Thomas Wilner's Sunday article in todays LA Times, "Current" section.

"Another prisoner, Fawzi Al Odah, 25, is a teacher who left Kuwait City in 2001 to work in Afgan, then Pakistani, schools. After 9/11, he and four other Kuwaitis were invited to dinner by a Pakistani tribal leader and then sold by him into captivity, according to their accounts, later confirmed by Newsweek and ABC News." <The U.S. has been paying $5K to $25K for Muslim "terrorists">

"On Aug. 8, 2005, Fawzi, in desperation, went on a hunger strike to assert his innocence and to protest being imprisoned for four years without charges. He said he wanted to defend himself against any accusations, or die. He told me that he had heard U.S. congressmen had returned from tours of Guantanamo saying that it was a Caribbean resort with great food. "If I eat, I condone these lies," Fawzi said.

"At the end of August, after Fawzi fainted in his cell, guards began to force-feed him through tubes pushed up his nose into his stomach. At first the tubes were inserted for each feeding and then removed afterward...when he tried to pull out the tubes, he was strapped onto a stretcher with his head held by many guards, which was even more painful."

long story short, Fawzi Al Odah went from 140 lbs to 98 lbs. The use of comfort items, towel, blanket, long pants is used on hundreds of men, who are not charged with any crimes and who are not allowed to have contact with family or legal representation..all to GET a handle on TERRORISM in the middle east, amerikan gulag style.

be proud, amerika, our tax dollars at work.
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 11:53 AM
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1. nauseating.
When will the world demand an end to this? Will we ever get to see the bush administration hauled in to the Hague for crimes against humanity?

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