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To: MrB

Detainees Eat Well, Gain Weight on Camp Delta’s Muslim Menu

http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=43686

“”We have to make sure that the food is halal approved,” said Schonhoff, overseer of the galleys at Guantanamo Bay that feed the detainees and U.S. service members. “Meats for the detainees have to be handled a certain way under Muslim requirements. When I order meat for military people, I just say I want 50 pounds of chicken, and it doesn’t matter how that chicken has been handled as long as it’s USDA approved. For the Muslims, I have to have a certificate from the company that says it’s halal approved. I’m required to keep the certificate on file in case I’m ever questioned.”

A typical breakfast consists of pita bread, rice, curried eggs and peas, milk and fresh fruit, or hash browns, pita bread, a boiled egg, milk and fresh fruit. A typical dinner consists of rice, pita bread, meat and vegetable curry, milk, fresh fruit and margarine. A variant is rice, baked fish, stew sauce, spinach, orange or orange juice, milk and bread and margarine. JTF 160 provides the lunch vegetarian MREs.

“We serve them two special meals per year,” Schonhoff noted. “For example, we served them lamb stew, rice, loaf bread, baklava and tea at the end of Ramadan in April. The Joint Task Force tells us when to serve the special meals.”


33 posted on 10/10/2013 7:15:15 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Good lord, just put them all on a boat and torpedo it. This country is insane. Is the entire nation suffering Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? Its the only answer for what has happened in the past 12 years.


50 posted on 10/10/2013 8:49:30 AM PDT by Colehill1999 (Revolution is a dish best served cold)
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