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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 11:26 AM
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Camp Delta Sergeant Blows The Whistle: Gitmo "Suicides"-COVER-UPS At Unreported Gitmo BLACK SITE
Edited on Mon Jan-18-10 11:29 AM by kpete
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle

By Scott Horton

..............

This is the official story, adopted by NCIS and Guantánamo command and reiterated by the Justice Department in formal pleadings, by the Defense Department in briefings and press releases, and by the State Department. Now four members of the Military Intelligence unit assigned to guard Camp Delta, including a decorated non-commissioned Army officer who was on duty as sergeant of the guard the night of June 9–10, have furnished an account dramatically at odds with the NCIS report—a report for which they were neither interviewed nor approached.

All four soldiers say they were ordered by their commanding officer not to speak out, and all four soldiers provide evidence that authorities initiated a cover-up within hours of the prisoners’ deaths. Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman and men under his supervision have disclosed evidence in interviews with Harper’s Magazine that strongly suggests that the three prisoners who died on June 9 had been transported to another location prior to their deaths. The guards’ accounts also reveal the existence of a previously unreported black site at Guantánamo where the deaths, or at least the events that led directly to the deaths, most likely occurred.

more:
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 11:38 AM
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1. kick
nt
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 11:43 AM
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3. another kick.
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 11:43 AM
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2. K & R nt
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:02 PM
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4. K&R
:patriot:
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:04 PM
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5. Well *this* is certainly a shocking development..
Hoocoodanode?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:05 PM
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It's as we suspected
The Bush administration was full of war criminals, and by not prosecuting them and not reining in the CIA and escalating in Afghanistan, the Obama administration is tacitly condoning their actions.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 12:05 PM
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6. Mr. Obama, does this other black site exist? If it does, the buck stops with you. n/t
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DKRC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 02:30 PM
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7. K&R nt
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 04:22 PM
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8. CIA/DoD ran black site - Camp Zero - near Gitmo. One of 3 killed was close to Abu Zubaydeh, KSM
and a go-between to UBL.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ali Abdullah Ahmed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal on 1 November 2004.<17> The allegations it listed were:

The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee traveled from Sanaa, Yemen to Faisalabad, Pakistan via Karachi Pakistan.
2. "'The detainee worked directly for Usama Bin Ladin's family.
3. The detainee has been identified as an al Qaida courier directly associated with Khalid Shaykh Muhammad .
4. The detainee resided at the Issa safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
5. Abu Zubayda was the director at the safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan as well as one located in Peshawar, Pakistan.
6. Residents of a safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, routinely received endorsement letters from a known al-Qaida operative to attend terrorist training camp.
7. The purpose of the Khaldan camp was to train fighters for jihad.
8. A Khaldan camp weapons trainer was captured at an Abu Zubaydaa safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
9. The al Qaida weapons trainer from Tora Bora identified the detainee from his time in Kabul, Afghanistan as well as his time in al Qaida's camp Khalden .
10. The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida lieutenant as being associated with Khalid Shaykh Muhammad .
11. Senior Al Qaida facilitator Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri identified the detainee.



Another eye-witness eliminated.
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 07:12 AM
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9. K&R
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 07:56 AM
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10. K&R n/t
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-19-10 07:57 AM
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11. K&R
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