Posted on 11/01/2009 2:36:09 PM PST by freespirited
As President Barack Obama's deadline to close Guantánamo looms, some occupants of the notorious detention centre would rather prolong their stay than be sent to maximum security prisons on the US mainland, according to camp officials.
Despite its reputation, the regime at the Pentagon facility on Cuba's southern coast offers privileges that would not be enjoyed at the federal "supermax" prison at Florence, Colorado, the likely alternative for the most dangerous al-Qaeda suspects.
Sensitive to criticism that the detention centre was not meeting international standards, the Pentagon has gradually improved living conditions at Guantánamo...
Peter King, a Republican congressman who visited earlier this year and wants the prison kept open, said that "if there's any scandal at Guantánamo, it is that the detainees are treated too well".
The 221 remaining inmates receive between four and 20 hours outdoor recreation in the Caribbean sun and anything from weekly to almost unlimited access to DVDs and receive three newspapers (USA Today, plus one Egyptian and one Saudi Arabian title) twice a week. Every bed has an arrow pointing towards Mecca and every cell a prayer rug....[snip]
The detainees' diet is exclusively Middle Eastern and halal, in observance of regional and religious sensitivities. Dates, olive oil and honey are provided daily and pita bread is baked on the premises. They drink the same bottled water as the prison's staff and have the same access as other prisoners to 16,000 books and 1,600 magazines held at the library. [snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Just damn.
This is simply really funny! Hello Obama - they want to stay in paradise...heh. (Oh, and by the way, the Cowboys won)...
This whole thing is a plot by the liberals to poison public opinion against the war on terror. They are hoping that the public will say, “If this is the way we’ve got to fight this war, then it’s better not to fight it at all.”
It is, absolutely hilarious.
ROFLMAO
Bu.. but.. but.. I thought Club Gitmo was a bad place. The ACLU said it was, and all of the DNC and the Media did too. How can this be??? < /sarc
We should have just put Sherrif Joe in charge of the prison.
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