Posted on 10/19/2005 9:26:20 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay say troops force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment, according to declassified notes released Wednesday by defense attorneys.
The repeated removal and insertion of the tubes has caused striking prisoners to vomit blood and to experience intense pain that they have equated with torture, the lawyers reported to a federal judge after visiting their clients at the U.S. base in eastern Cuba.
Prisoners said they were taunted by troops who said the treatment was intended to persuade them to end the hunger strike that began Aug. 9, the lawyers wrote in affidavits filed as part of a lawsuit in federal court in Washington seeking greater access to inmates at the high-security jail for terror suspects.
Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin, a military spokesman for the Guantanamo detention center, said all detainees in the hunger strike are closely monitored by medical personnel and mistreatment is not tolerated, though he did not know the specific procedures for handling the feeding tubes.
"Detainees ... are treated humanely," Martin said. "Claims to the contrary are wholly inaccurate and blatantly misrepresent the excellent work being done here by honorable military and civilian professionals."
Guantanamo officials have said this latest hunger strike began with 76 detainees protesting their confinement. Defense lawyers have cited other reasons as well, including complaints about food and water, alleged abuse by guards and interrogators and their desire to either face trial or be released.
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Lemme guess, torture?
well, of course the prisoners are going to say that
I don't think it counts as torture if they are doing it to themselves. It's a really silly thing to do when you know they can't in good concious let them starve.
I guess Terri Schiavo would have had a better chance in Gitmo.
A Carter or Clinton judge will buy the lies. Let them starve if they want but keep them porked up for their meeting with Allah (pork rinds be upon him).
"Prisoners (TERRORISTS) said "
And MSM is taking their word, without any question. Obviously our US military is lying and the terrorists are telling the truth -- according to the MSM belief system. Never mind that the terrorist manual is specifically instructing terrorists to lie and claim torture in prison.
How far is the MSM going with all this. It's beyond belief.
good thing. the last thing we want is for them to starve to death under our watch. MSM would maul President Bush....
That is so cruel, when our troops have been captured in our last few wars they are often treated to a fine forced starve situation. This as we all know has the added benefit of being low in carbs and not yet being linked to cancer.
I just added my new tagline in honor of this thread.
"Oh, how terrible....being taunted. A trooper probably said something like, 'Your Mama!' "
Isn't that "Yo" mama?
Works for me!
Um, gee, I wonder if that sharpened plastic comb that one terrorist used to stab the prison guard in the eye was properly cleaned before being violently inserted and withdrawn [or was it left in?] as a way to leave a guard permanently brain damaged?
Getting a tube placed through your nose to your stomach is no fun. It is lets say uncomfortable. However, I guess we could let them starve to death and get blamed for that also. I imagine the tube was removed after each feeding so they could not use it to hang themselves. I hate lawyers. They care nothing for the truth.
I fully support their right to starve, myself.
Prisoners Say Troops Force-Fed Them
Ask any inmate in a U.S. prison why they're in here. "I'm innocent."
"Didn't you know, everybody in here is innocent."
I hope it was a "bacon slushie."
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