UNSHACKLE OUR MARINES NOW. THEN EXECUTE THE TERRORISTS.
Posted on 06/07/2006 3:00:28 PM PDT by The Blitherer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Guantanamo Bay detainee who participated in a clash with U.S. military guards last month said it was sparked when guards tried to search prisoners' Qurans, contradicting the military's account of the melee, his defense attorney said Wednesday.
The detainee also denied the contention by military officials that prisoners in the May 18 clash in Guantanamo Bay lured guards into a cell by staging a suicide attempt, defense attorney Kristin Wilhelm told The Associated Press.
The military, in its account soon after the clash occurred at the prison in southeast Cuba, said 10 prisoners used makeshift weapons to battle 10 guards. It was one of the most violent incidents at Guantanamo Bay, where the U.S. holds about 460 men on suspicion of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Wilhelm said the detainee, a Yemeni whom she could not further identify because of Pentagon rules, told her the guards demanded that prisoners turn over their Qurans so they could be searched for hoarded medicine, which the military said had been used in two suicide attempts earlier in the day elsewhere at the prison camp.
One detainee offered to collect the Qurans and search them in front of the guards, but the military guards refused and entered the cell block, setting off the fight, she said. She said the prisoners used only a floor lamp against the guards and that it quickly ended when one detainee succumbed to pepper spray used by military police.
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Did you ask your client how many prisoners in a Yemen prison are allowed to have a personnel copy of the bible?
We should force-feed them their Korans, sideways.
... a Navy corpsman being held in the Camp Pendleton brig ..... is under more restrictions than "known terrorists in military facilities around the world."
"During the one brief period per day he is allowed to utilize the recreational yard, my client remains shackled at the hands, waist, and ankles," Sullivan wrote. "Anytime he walks within the recreational yard he is escorted by at least one military prison guard who grasps onto his waist shackles at all times. This balance of his time is spent in solitary confinement."
First, let's kill all the lawyers.
Next time I'm carrying illegal contraband, I'll be sure to hide it in a hollowed-out Koran. I'm sure the police won't search, confiscate, or otherwise molest it, since that might offend the ROP.
Why do these effing pukes even have access to the press in the first place!!??
What's wrong with searching the Quran? If they had trouble previously with suicide, they should have checked. But I'll bet McCain (Or someone) will say this is a rights violation...
Would we have allowed Nazi's to keep copies of Mein Kampf in their cells? The ROP's instruction book is no different.
good point.
The guards were only checking the toilet paper supply.
What? Where was Ramsey Clark?
A further corollary to the point is that none of these people would be in Gitmo other than their belief in that nonsense they call a religion. Why allow this? Freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom to practice a religion that is patently dangerous to others. We don't allow cultures who practiced cannibalism as a religious sacrament to practice this. Why allow a religion that has a stated purpose to enslave all people not of their religion. We fought a war to stop slavery and we do a damn good job in this country marginalizing people who are members of the KKK. We should marginalize the Muslims the same way. Why is there not an organization like the Southern Poverty Law center that tracks studies and legal persecutes Muslim groups. Only because they are Brown skinned racists thats the only reason they can get away with this nonsense.
Just take the damned Korans away from them. Problem solved.
LOL
Funny how a handful of paper means more to muslims than a human life.
Then again, a handful of Scott filled with yesterday's repast means more to me than any of the detainees at GTMO.
He's way too busy defending Saddam. Gitmo is SOOO last year's scandal
Let me get my Kleenex.....this sounds like a very sad story from Gitmo.
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