Posted on 06/03/2005 7:36:10 AM PDT by smoothsailing
The Truth About Gitmo that Islamist Sympathizers Don't Want You to hear
by Michelle Malkin
Posted Jun 3, 2005
The mainstream media and international human rights organizations have relentlessly portrayed the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as a depraved torture chamber operated by sadistic American military officials defiling Islam at every turn. It's the "gulag of our time," wails Amnesty International. It's the "anti-Statue of Liberty," bemoans New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. Have there been abuses? Yes. But here is the rest of the story -- the story that the Islamists and their sympathizers don't want you to hear.
According to recently released FBI documents, which are inaccurately heralded by civil liberties activists and military-bashers as irrefutable evidence of widespread "atrocities" at Gitmo:
A significant number of detainees' complaints were either exaggerated or fabricated (no surprise given al Qaeda's explicit instructions to trainees to lie). One detainee who claimed to have been "beaten, spit upon and treated worse than a dog" could not provide a single detail pertaining to mistreatment by U.S. military personnel. Another detainee claimed that guards were physically abusive, but admitted he hadn't seen it.
Another detainee disputed one of the now-globally infamous claims that American guards had mistreated the Koran. The detainee said that riots resulted from claims that a guard dropped the Koran. In actuality, the detainee said, a detainee dropped the Koran then blamed a guard. Other detainees who complained about abuse of the Koran admitted they had never personally witnessed any such abuse, but one said he had heard that non-Muslim soldiers touched the Koran when searching it for contraband.
In one case, Gitmo interrogators apologized to a detainee for interviewing him prior to the end of Ramadan. Several detainees indicated they had not experienced any mistreatment. Others complained about lack of privacy, lack of bed sheets, being unwillingly photographed, the guards' use of profanity, and bad food.
If this is unacceptable, "gulag"-style "torture," then every inmate in America is a victim of human rights violations. (Oh, never mind, there are civil liberties chicken littles who actually believe that.)
Erik Saar, who served as an army sergeant at Gitmo for six months and co-authored a negative, tell-all book about his experience titled Inside the Wire, inadvertently provides us more firsthand details showing just how restrained, and sensitive to Islam -- to a fault, I believe -- the officials at the detention facility have been.
Each detainee's cell has a sink installed low to the ground, "to make it easier for the detainees to wash their feet" before Muslim prayer, Saar reports. Detainees get "two hot halal, or religiously correct, meals" a day in addition to an MRE (meal ready to eat). Loudspeakers broadcast the Muslims' call to prayer five times a day. Every detainee gets a prayer mat, cap and Koran. Every cell has a stenciled arrow pointing toward Mecca.
Moreover, Gitmo's library -- yes, library -- is stocked with Jihadi books. "I was surprised that we'd be making that concession to the religious zealotry of the terrorists," Saar admits. "[I]t seemed to me that the camp command was helping to facilitate the terrorists' religious devotion." Saar notes that one FBI special agent involved in interrogations even grew a beard like the detainees "as a sort of show of respect for their faith."
Unreality-based liberals would have us believe that America is systematically torturing innocent Muslims out of spite at Guantanamo Bay. Meanwhile, our own MPs have endured little-publicized abuse at the hands of manipulative, hate-mongering enemy combatants. Detainees have spit on and hurled water, urine and feces on the MPs. Causing disturbances is a source of entertainment for detainees who, as Gen. Richard Myers points out, "would turn right around and try to slit our throats, slit our children's throats" if released.
The same unreality-based liberals whine about the Bush administration's failure to gather intelligence and prevent terrorism. Yet, these hysterical critics have no viable alternative to detention and interrogation -- and there is no doubt they would be the first to lambaste the White House and Pentagon if a released detainee went on to commit an act of mass terrorism on American soil.
Guantanamo Bay will not be the death of this country. The unseriousness and hypocrisy of the terrorist-abetting Left is a far greater threat.
Copyright © 2004 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.
Since they're going to be blamed for meeting out sadistic treatment they might as well get in some real licks.
And so, slammite terrorists all lie about this kind of shit because that's part of their religion/doctrine. Except when they're making these kinds of accusations against Serbs of course, and then they're all telling the truth...
Is it just me or is something wrong with the story here??
99% of those that are prisoners are confirmed self admitted jihadists-they just claim they are not part of al-Qaeda. Whatever. Let them rot.
BTTT
These are among the common (and numerous) complaints made by AMERICAN prisoners in every jail in the United States..
Bedding, clothing, Food, are all complaints that every jailhouse lawyer files paperwork complaints on..
Additionally, insufficient time in the Law Library, lack of exercise time, (outside/recreation) confiscation of contraband items, handling of "personal" effects, (often contraband) search procedures, television time, telephone calls, mail, lack of or improper medical attention, or failure to recieve meds, aspirin, tylenol, ibuprofen, etc, etc, ad nauseaum..
It is not unusual for prisoners to coordinate minor "riots" or disturbances, usually to cover some activity taking place elsewhere in the facility..
Throwing of urine and feces is also a common pastime, but this usually is restricted to higher security areas, often called "administrative segregation", where prisoners with behavioural problems are kept..
This includes violent or aggressive, suicidal, actively gay, etc..
The Gitmo prisoners are apparently well versed in typical US prisoner behaviours and tactics..
A more accurate title would be: "The Truth about Gitmo that the TERRORIST Sympathizers Don't Want You to hear"
Leftists - Bush-haters - in this country have taken to heart the old Arabian proverb: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Their enemy - George W. Bush and his Administration - is an avowed and demonstrated enemy to Iraqi and Afghan terrorists (oops, to be p.c., I mean "insurgents"). Therefore, in their twisted but unspoken logic, the terrorists fighting against the policies of President Bush have in fact become the "friends" of the left. This simple concept explains most of the behavior that the outspoken enemies of George Bush (from Newsweek to the Democrap party) have been demonstrating toward the enemies of America and Freedom.
Go figure.
top of the morning...
bttt
"And so, slammite terrorists all lie about this kind of shit because that's part of their religion/doctrine. Except when they're making these kinds of accusations against Serbs of course, and then they're all telling the truth...
Is it just me or is something wrong with the story here??"
I guess if there were mass graves in Gitmo and there wasn't an ETHNIC CLEANSING going on in Kosovo, something might be construed as wrong.
In Gitmo you are talking about a group of terrorists that have been captured trying to kill Afghans, Iraqis and Americans and you are lumping this in with a people that were being systematically exterminated. I think this is comparing apples and oranges.
We have to do all in our power to support Ws efforts and expose the treason of the Left.
Sorry,I realize you know all that, but I just have to rant now and then.
Unfortunately it will take another 911 type attack before something thoughtful like that would happen.
It's all about abortion and gay rights. Nothing more.
(Libs can't promote those to a majority so their only path to power is to tear down and discredit everything else about America.)
You've been sold a bill of goods.
There was never any "ethnic cleansing" going on in Kosovo
and
there was never anything remotely like genocide going on.
It was all made up. The most fabulous of the many lies the west has been told about the Balkans is probably the thing about the Bosnian Serb "death camp" at Trnopolja which turned out to be a refugee hostel.
The question is, after that one, which part or parts of this BS are we supposed to go on believing?
There is ethnic cleansing in Kosovo...the Serbs are being cleansed in full view of and with the assent of the governments of the world.
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