Do we know just how many jihadists were there when he left in June 2002?
Former Guantanamo prison guard Brandon Neely poses Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Neely has come forward in this final year of the detention center's existence, saying he wants to publicly air his feelings of guilt and shame about how some soldiers behaved as the military scrambled to handle the first alleged al-Qaida and Taliban members arriving at the isolated U.S. Navy base.
An excerpt from the article: Neely, a burly Texan who served for a year in Iraq after his six months at Guantanamo, received an honorable discharge last year, with the rank of specialist, and now works as a law enforcement officer in the Houston area. He is also president of the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Burly Texan, eh? He looks like a fat-&ssed whiner whose mommy fed too many donuts. What-a-slug!
Talk about pure BS from this Blue Falcon.
No training on how to handle detainees? You handle them the same way as if you would handle any other prisoners just like he was supposedly trained to do at Fort Lostinthewoods. My God what a moron!
I was a scout (19D) and I know more than this idiot who’s job is supposed to include the handling of prisoners.
I say we find all those others who have served at GITMO and counter this a$$clown’s lies and exaggerations with the truth. I bet that when it comes down to it, there will be nobody who recalls him even being near any detainees.
He could be the next John Kerry!
1. Guantanomo should be addressed as a geopolitical question rather than a question of abstract principal.
This means questions such as “should innocent people be detained” or “should people be abused during detention” should be subordinate to concerns of how to achieve such principals. Closing Gitmo will increase the detention of innocent people and will increase incidents of abuse worldwide.
2. People detained by the political agents of Gitmo have been treated far worse in a geopolitical sense
The recent treatment of the polish engineer detainee is illustrative:
This is not to serve as a “justification” for any American abuses but as a clarifying question as to how released detainees would operate biopower in their new found realms.
3. Released detainees have returned to combat against US soldiers
4. Gitmo detainees are a tiny percentage of individuals detained on the battlefield— many more guilty go free.
5. Innocent til proven guilty is not a global construct and its strategic enforcement by advocacy groups is a deliberate effort to undermine global human dignity.
6. The lack of gitmo increases human rights abuses by:
encouraging killing in the field rather than detaining
increase the use of rendition
increase the use of surrogates
increase the use of isolationism as a foreign policy, leading to genocide
Shocker: Leftist Anti-War Agitator And Veteran Accuses Military Of Abuse At Gitmo
Just another anti-war puke.
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On 11 November 1999, Hicks travelled to Pakistan to study Islam and began training with Lashkar-e-Toiba in early 2000.
In January 2001, Hicks was provided with funding and an introductory letter from Lashkar-e-Toiba. He then travelled to Afghanistan to attend training at Al-Qaeda camps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks#Lashkar-e-Toiba
The latest from Lashkar-e-Toiba was the 2008 Mumbai massacre. Nice bunch.
You could go have a beer with 'em. And then get beheaded, no doubt.
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Antiwar US Vets Support Israeli Military Objectors
by Brandon Neely Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM
bneely27@gmail.com
Statement signed by over two dozen U.S. military war resisters. Reprinted by AlterNet, Democracy Now, The Progressive, Common Dreams, Indymedia, and Daily Kos.
We are U.S. military servicemembers and veterans who have refused or are currently refusing to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We stand in solidarity with the Israeli Shministim (Hebrew for "12th graders") who are also resisting military service. About 100 Israeli high school students have signed an open letter declaring their refusal to serve in the Israeli army and their opposition to "Israeli occupation and oppression policy in the occupied territories and the territories of Israel." In Israel, military service is mandatory for all graduating high school seniors, and resisters face the possibility of years in prison.
We have also refused to participate in unjust acts of military aggression, and many of us have gone to prison or currently live with that possibility as a result. We believe that resistance to unjust war is a bold assertion of humanity in the face of overwhelming violence.
The Global War on Terror, like the Israeli occupation, is propped up by racism and dehumanization and sets the stage for never-ending war and occupation. We are inspired by the brave refusal of our brothers and sisters in Israel to take part in these destructive policies, and we want to let them know today, December 18th--the day of international solidarity with the Shministim--that they have our deepest respect and support.
In Solidarity,
Stephanie Atkinson
Specialist, US Army Reserve. Went AWOL October 1990 to resist Gulf War deployment. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.
Chris Capps-Schubert
Specialist, US Army, communications. Went AWOL March 2007 to resist Afghanistan deployment. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.
Eugene Cherry
Specialist, US Army, medic. Went AWOL June 2005 to resist Iraq redeployment, later won honorable discharge.
Matthis Chiroux
Sergeant, US Army, journalist. Currently refusing Inactive Ready Reserve recall.
James Circello
Sergeant, US Army, airborne infantry. Went AWOL April 2007 following Iraq deployment. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.
Carl Davison
US Army, security. Refused Iraq deployment in 2008. Served one month in the brig.
Matthew Edwards
US Marine Corps. Resisted Iraq deployment and was discharged March 2003.
Stephen Funk
Lance Corporal, US Marine Corps, logistical support. Went AWOL February 2003 to resist Iraq deployment. Served six months in the brig.
Andrew Gorby
Second Lieutenant, US Army, infantry. Discharged May 2007 as a conscientious objector.
Patrick Hart
Sergeant, US Army. Went AWOL in 2005 to resist Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.
Ryan Johnson
Private Second Class, US Army. Went AWOL January 2005 to resist Iraq deployment and currently lives in Canada.
Dale Landry
Senior Airman, US Air Force. Went AWOL in 2007 following Afghanistan deployment and has lived in Canada since.
Benjamin Lewis
US Marine Corps, mortar man. After two Iraq deployments, now refusing Inactive Ready Reserve recall.
Robin Long
Specialist, US Army. Went AWOL in June 2005 to resist Iraq deployment and lived in Canada until being deported July 2008. Currently serving a 14 month sentence at the Miramar Naval Brig near San Diego, California.
Christopher Magaoay
Lance Corporal, US Marine Corps. Went AWOL in 2006 to resist Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.
Camilo Mejia
Staff Sergeant, Army National Guard. Refused to redeploy to Iraq in 2004. Served nine months in the stockade.
Geoff Millard
Sergeant, Army National Guard. Went AWOL and later discharged following 2005 Iraq deployment.
Brandon Neely
US Army, military police. Refused recall from the Inactive Ready Reserve in 2007.
Perry O'Brien
US Army, medic. Discharged as a conscientious objector November 2004 following Afghanistan deployment.
Jeff Paterson
Corporal, US Marine Corps, artillery control. Refused Desert Storm deployment August 1990. Served two months pre-trial confinement. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.
Ryan Souza
Senior Airman, US Air Force, crew chief. Applied for conscientious objector discharge July 2008. Awaiting decision on his application by the military.
Chanan Suarezdiaz
Hospital Corpsman, Third Class, US Navy. Discharged following 2004 Iraq deployment.
Benjamin Viges
US Army, airborne infantry. Discharged as a conscientious objector following 2003 Iraq deployment.
Dean Walcott
US Marine Corps, military police. Went AWOL in 2007 following Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.
David Wiggins MD
Captain, US Army, doctor. Resigned commission near the Iraq border during Desert Storm 1991.
Steve Yoczik
Private, US Army. Went AWOL November 2006 to resist Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.
My BS detector went off on this one. He graduated high school in 1998 and finished Army boot camp at age 20-21. Served tour in Egypt and arrived in Gitmo in 2002. Plus, his dad is a retired Army master sergeant and he was from Huntsville, Texas -- and he never heard that term before?
I didn't think the Army took deaf guys.
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Security guard?
I read the (very long) interview. He seems credible....but, none of the abuses he cites are much worse than what I’ve seen on the Discovery Channel, in stories about high security U.S. Prisons. He seems to have given in to a “Stockholme Syndrome” like respect and friendship with the prisoners also. He is very young, and he feels genuine guilt over these minor abuses...and the leftist are exploiting him much like they did with Cindy Sheehan. The tenor of the questions was over the top.
Let’s see now, this guy admits to abusing detainees and is ashamed now, but it is all someone else’s fault?
Seems he will fit in just perfect with the merry band of Kerry kooks.
All I had time to read was the story about the detainee who wouldn’t drink the can of Ensure, a common nutrient they would give detainees who were malnourished, so as to
(obviously) head off inevitable criticisms of “starving” the prisoners intentionally. Multiple requests to take the liquid from multiple officials led to an ugly incident where he was hit as a last resort, and he still didn’t effectively swallow the liquid. Neely later claims he found out (from other prisoners) that the man thought he was being poisoned,which begs the question of why the countless other prisoners who’d drunk Ensure couldn’t tell him it wasn’t poison? Or why didn’t he see that for himself? IN any event, this particular ‘incident’ looks like it might not have even been avoidable if they’d had use of a translator/
Unless he signs an affidavit (and the IVAW guys never do), this “testimony” can safely be regarded as leftist anti-military agitprop.