Jumana Musa, a lawyer, .. a muslim ?
Posted on 06/28/2005 9:19:09 AM PDT by Ramonan
Senators from both sides of the aisle competed on Monday to extol the humane treatment of detainees whom they said they saw on a weekend trip to the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. All said they opposed closing the center.
"I feel very good" about the detainees' treatment, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said.
That feeling was also expressed by another Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
On Monday, Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, said he learned while visiting Guantánamo that some detainees "even have air-conditioning and semiprivate showers."
Another Republican, Senator Michael D. Crapo of Idaho, said soldiers and sailors at the camp "get more abuse from the detainees than they give to the detainees."
Mr. Wyden and Mr. Nelson were in Cuba primarily to discuss new agricultural trade and visited Guantánamo on Sunday. They ran into Mr. Bunning, Mr. Crapo and Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, who traveled to Guantánamo for the day on Sunday "to see for ourselves what all the so-called fuss is about down there," as Mr. Bunning put it.
After the trip, Mr. Wyden argued that Congress should establish treatment standards for detainees like those at Guantánamo who are neither uniformed members of foreign military forces under the Geneva Conventions nor citizens under the United States justice system.
In contrast, Mr. Crapo praised the current military procedures.
An official of Amnesty International, Jumana Musa, dismissed the visits as "this little Congressional show and tell." Ms. Musa said the statements did not address what she called the inadequate investigation of reported abuses.
"Whether or not people are being fed orange chicken," Ms. Musa said, "does not get at the heart of the issue."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sort of like "fake but accurate?" Amazing, the way a liberal "mind" works.
Hear me now, believe me later:
As far as the MSM is concerned, if a given story does not advance the agenda, it is not news.
(steely)
That's rhetorical, btw.
I feel mild physical torture to extract needed intel is okay, and acute mental torture should be SOP for all of these prisoners.
Dang! These murdering terrorists need to treated commensurate with their crimes not mollycoddled.
Realistically, we shouldn't even have Gitmo. If we followed the Geneva Convention to the letter, we would have to execute - on the spot - all these detainees because they are unlawful combatants, and they do not fight under a country's flag, and don't wear the uniform. Therefore, they are terrorists, and subject to field justice.
Someone needs to set up an Internet chart showing --the story, --the MSM news source and, --the page number, if reported!
ping
If Musa wishes to remain one-sided and remain on the side of the enemy (Al-Qaeda believes and supports the same motives as she does), then so be it. This will only make Amnesty International appear more ridiculous.
ANOTHER CLUE:
http://www.peacecouncil.net/pnl/04/735/735guantanamo.html#jumana
Jumana, a native Syracusan who volunteered with Syracuse PEACE Council during high school, is a lawyer and staff member of Amnesty International.
GREAT!
I'm actually suprised that they printed this at all.
So I reckon she's either a Turkish or an Arab descent. Hence a good possibility that she's a muslim.
Someone had to come along to replace Helen Thomas.
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