Guantanamo Bay: With Children’s Facilities
by John Walker on May.28, 2006, under The Rest
Kim forwarded this to me.
More than 60 children have been held at Guantanamo Bay
The story has gone totally unreported by the BBC, and is buried on Yahoo.
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May 28th, 2006 on 22:38
Well, that’s just… wonderful.
I can only hope Reprieve are somehow wrong… or perhaps I should hope for the opposite. Though terrible for the minors involved, it could at least provide an extra nail with which to hammer the coffin lid shut on Guantanemo Bay.
Still, sad to say it barely surprises me. The US government, as seems par for the course these days, doesn’t seem to be trying to win itself many friends. Bah.
I just hope I’m somewhere safe when things go to shit.
Actually, I just hope that there will /be/ somewhere safe when that happens.
May 29th, 2006 on 07:25
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3175501.stm
Inaccessible from the main news page and the American News page…Three paragraphs…
May 29th, 2006 on 09:23
Erm. It’s a non-story. There’s absolutely no evidence for those claims, other than the fact that ex-inmates have made the claim. Part of the Al Quaeda training manual (yes, it exists, bizarrely) instructs one to make up damaging allegations on being released from custody, as it happens, as black propaganda. If, as the human rights organisations say, there is “credible evidence”, they should present it rather than be all coy about it. Until then, it’s a non-story, and rightly so.
May 29th, 2006 on 13:25
Then get somone to challenge the authenticity which equally bizarrely adds to the credence of the original and then sit back and bask in the publicity without any further effort.
May 29th, 2006 on 13:56
As long as the US continues to insist on the ridiculous premises that to maintain its security during this “war” Guantanamo’s detainees can’t be granted free access, even by their own Army appointed Lawyers. So people can make up any claims they feel like and who can judge whether they’re true either way? The whole things is an embarrassing mess and is another great example of what a bumbling catastrophe the Bush administration is.
May 30th, 2006 on 10:04
Dunno what you’re reading, but that link appears to go to a story about Guantanamo prisoners being on hunger strike.
Maybe they moved it?
May 30th, 2006 on 10:23
They had moved it. The link’s corrected now. They’ve changed the story a bit.