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Exclusive: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama
Reuters ^ | 2/25/09 | Luke Baker

Posted on 02/25/2009 7:56:09 AM PST by xtinct

Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees.

Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger strike.

The Pentagon said on Monday that it had received renewed reports of prisoner abuse during a recent review of conditions at Guantanamo, but had concluded that all prisoners were being kept in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.

"According to my clients, there has been a ramping up in abuse since President Obama was inaugurated," said Ghappour, a British-American lawyer with Reprieve, a legal charity that represents 31 detainees at Guantanamo.

"If one was to use one's imagination, (one) could say that these traumatized, and for lack of a better word barbaric, guards were just basically trying to get their kicks in right now for fear that they won't be able to later," he said.

"Certainly in my experience there have been many, many more reported incidents of abuse since the inauguration," added Ghappour, who has visited Guantanamo six times since late September and based his comments on his own observations and conversations with both prisoners and guards.

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


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuse; agitprop; ahmedghappour; alreuters; duplicate; enemedia; genevaconvention; gitmo; guantanamo; lies; mediawar; military; proterrorist; usefulidiot
I don't believe this maggot lawyer... Additionally, he is careful to place blame on the military and not THE ONE...

BUT if true THE ONE is responsible just like the media made G.W. responsible for Abu Garab...

1 posted on 02/25/2009 7:56:10 AM PST by xtinct
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To: xtinct

Al Qaida’s handbook (as can been seen on The Smoking Gun) tells agents of AQ to file bogus complaints when in prison.


2 posted on 02/25/2009 7:58:05 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Chicago is so corrupt... an autopsy can list "'cause he wouldn't listen" - Lenny Bruce)
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“according to a lawyer who represents detainees”

according to leftoid terrorist supporter. yeah. not worth an ounce of p*ss.


3 posted on 02/25/2009 7:58:49 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: xtinct

I don’t recall Al Qaeda being a signatory to the Geneva Conventions. Where does it say that AQ is allowed to kidnap civilians and make snuff films of their deaths?


4 posted on 02/25/2009 8:00:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Chicago is so corrupt... an autopsy can list "'cause he wouldn't listen" - Lenny Bruce)
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"Certainly in my experience there have been many, many more reported incidents of abuse since the inauguration,"

Because their gravy train is about to end and they will have to find some other tactic to generate favorable press from Al Reuters.

5 posted on 02/25/2009 8:01:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Chicago is so corrupt... an autopsy can list "'cause he wouldn't listen" - Lenny Bruce)
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"According to my clients, there has been a ramping up in abuse since President Obama was inaugurated,"

IF true, I guess that's one good thing done on The One's watch.

6 posted on 02/25/2009 8:01:24 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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This is at least the third time this story has been posted this motning.


7 posted on 02/25/2009 8:01:45 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama. But them folks are white boys at Gitmo.

IT’S all Obama’s fault.


8 posted on 02/25/2009 8:01:48 AM PST by chainsaw (The Democrat Party=The Party of Corruption,tax evasion & Racism.)
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