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Guantanamo’s Retirement Plan: You’re Here Till You Die

By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, October 30th, 2006, 10:08 am
Filed under: Human Rights, World: North America, Terrorism, Society/Culture: Law/Order, Society/Culture, World Issues, US Politics

It has been estimated that the majority of the 435 detainees held in Guantanamo could remain there until they die. The Pentagon has decided that about 120 of the uncharged suspects have the possibility of being released from the concentration camp. That leaves over 300 uncharged suspects that may eventually die in Guantanamo without ever having a trial.

Cully Stimson, the assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, confirm suspicions by remarking, “Yes, they could be held for the duration of their lives.” He continued by downplaying imprisonment by saying, “If US prisoners saw the detention regime these people are in, they’d be knocking down the door to get into Gitmo.” Sounds like a resort spa doesn’t it? With Habeas Corpus suspended, some US citizens may soon be lucky enough to live out that fantasy of retiring in Guantanamo.

Gitmo detention buildings are hidden behind rows of chain-link fences with spiral barbed wire. Watchtowers dot the perimeter, and guards without name tags have been known to abuse detainees on a regular basis. Detainees are separated by the color of their uniform. Fully compliant prisoners wear white, while tan and orange uniforms are reserved for more resistant detainees. In Gitmo, your level of compliance determines how many people you room with, what kind of toothbrush you have, or even how comfortable your sleeping mat is. However, regardless of your level of compliance, all detainees undergo a mandatory daily interrogation. Talkative prisoners are rewarded with fast food or coffee, but all are required to have at least one ankle shackled to the floor. Most of the uncharged prisoners are introverts when it comes to the “voluntary” interrogations, which may be a process they’ll have the rest of their lives to get use to.

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  3. […] Dodd’s bill would also provide for expedited review of the Military Commissions Act to determine the constitutionality of its provisions. Earlier this month, lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare the suspension of habeas rights unconstitutional. Incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin, said he too was concerned with the act. “I think that there’s been some significant abuses which have not made us more secure, but have made us less secure and have also perhaps cost us some real allies, as well as not producing particularly useful information.” Levin concluded, “So I think the system needs a thorough review, and as the military would say, a thorough scrubbing.” […]

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