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Gitmo Prisoners Say Troops Force-Fed Them
AP ^ | 10/19/5 | BEN FOX

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U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay say troops force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment, according to declassified notes released Wednesday by defense attorneys.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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bleedingheartattack; cheeriosinatube; detainees; gitmo; guantanamo; hungerstrike; lawyers; ohthehumanity; upyournose; waaaahhhh; whinyterrorists; witharubberhose
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1 posted on 10/19/2005 9:26:21 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Lemme guess, torture?


2 posted on 10/19/2005 9:28:06 PM PDT by whenigettime (they decapitate, we feed.... hmmm which side do YOU wanna be on?)
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To: SmithL

well, of course the prisoners are going to say that


3 posted on 10/19/2005 9:28:42 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)
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To: SmithL

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.


4 posted on 10/19/2005 9:30:08 PM PDT by Meef
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To: SmithL

I guess Terri Schiavo would have had a better chance in Gitmo.


5 posted on 10/19/2005 9:30:41 PM PDT by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: SmithL
force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment

Awwwww, poor tangs.

Tissue alert!!!!
6 posted on 10/19/2005 9:30:42 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: whenigettime

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).


7 posted on 10/19/2005 9:31:50 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: SmithL

"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.


8 posted on 10/19/2005 9:31:52 PM PDT by FairOpinion (CA Props: Vote for Reform: YES on 73-78, NO on 79 & 80, NO on Y)
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To: SmithL

good thing. the last thing we want is for them to starve to death under our watch. MSM would maul President Bush....


9 posted on 10/19/2005 9:33:10 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Meef

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.


10 posted on 10/19/2005 9:33:37 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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Prisoners said they were taunted by troops

Oh, how terrible....being taunted. A trooper probably said something like, 'Your Mama!'

I'm sure that's a violation of the Geneva Convention. Yep, Page 82, paragraph B 20 says specifically that a trooper cannot taunt a prisoner by saying "Your Mama!"
11 posted on 10/19/2005 9:33:42 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: SmithL

I just added my new tagline in honor of this thread.


12 posted on 10/19/2005 9:34:10 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (I could care less if the Gitmo prisoners got force-fed.)
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"Oh, how terrible....being taunted. A trooper probably said something like, 'Your Mama!' "

Isn't that "Yo" mama?


13 posted on 10/19/2005 9:36:23 PM PDT by no dems (43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, 2 to pull a trigger: I'm lazy and tired of smiling,)
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To: SmithL

14 posted on 10/19/2005 9:36:36 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: JustaCowgirl

Works for me!


15 posted on 10/19/2005 9:37:19 PM PDT by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: TomGuy
force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment

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?

16 posted on 10/19/2005 9:37:39 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: SmithL

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.


17 posted on 10/19/2005 9:38:26 PM PDT by therut
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To: SmithL

I fully support their right to starve, myself.


18 posted on 10/19/2005 9:40:32 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: SmithL

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."

19 posted on 10/19/2005 9:41:33 PM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: SmithL

I hope it was a "bacon slushie."


20 posted on 10/19/2005 9:41:54 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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