Posted on 07/27/2015 7:31:57 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEW YORK--The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among personnel working on the trials of detainees there.
At least seven civilians and military members who worked on detainee trials at Guantanamo Bay have been diagnosed with cancer, according to the complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General. The complaint calls on American military officials to remove personnel from court facilities on the base and test them and the base itself for carcinogens.
The complaint claims that an unusually large number of relatively healthy and young people who worked at the base have been diagnosed with cancer. Over the past decade, roughly 200 prosecutors, defense lawyers and other court personnel have worked on the base.
The complaint says that the patients may have been exposed to carcinogens when they lived and worked in a location at Guantanamo that was formerly used to dispose of jet fuel, adjacent to an abandoned runway. The patients may also have been exposed to toxins such as asbestos in an older building that initially hosted military trials, according to the complaint.
“The Department of Defense is aware of concerns about possible carcinogens around the DOD military commission site located at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay,” said Kelly Wirfel, spokesperson for Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. “Working together with the Navy Marine Corps Public Health Center and other environmental and health officials, Navy Region Southeast is looking into this to identify whatever steps may be necessary to address these concerns.”
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Well, Muslims are a malignant cancer IMHO. Being around them very long can shorten your life.
/sarc
Obama’s trial balloon to shut it down
FROM ARTICLE:
“Two doctors consulted by Reuters said it would be difficult to determine whether the cancer rate at the base was abnormal without much more detailed information. They said seven cases would be unusual among a group of 200 younger people, particularly if all of them developed the same type of cancer. But seven people in a group of 200 developing different forms of cancer could be normal, particularly if the group’s members were older.”
More like a Cluster F&*@
Highly believable.
Probably because of cluster fornication at the White House..
Yep...exactly...he wants to return Guantanamo to Cuba [no doubt with a huge infusion of cash to the dictatorship]and to do that he has to shut the prison down.
[Highly believable.]
Especially when you consider the complaint is coming from lawyers who make a living litigating alleged liabilities like environmental cancer.
I’ve seen this cancer cluster stuff used as a reason to make radical changes before. I am 65 so I’ve seen plenty.
It’s almost always baloney...and green baloney at that.
And we’ll have to give Cuba a few billion bucks to take it back since it now causes cancer
And seven got some sort of cancer...excuse me while I LOL.
Maybe Cuba has been dumping nucular waste there secretly for 50 years. Or maybe not!
Exactly what I thought.
7 out of 200 adults over 10+ years wouldn’t be that uncommon.
Some folks are wanting a major lawsuit and to close Guantanamo. This is just their deceit to try to do that.
Erin Obamavich is on the case.
Yup!
I saw it immediately....it’s like a poker tell.
Dang. I’ve had it twice in ten years. Does I count as one or two. Glad I’ve never been to Guantanamo!
king Obama trying to create a reason for closing GITMO.
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“There appears to be a cancer cluster surrounding the military commissions at Guantanamo,” said J. Wells Dixon, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has represented dozens of Guantanamo detainees. “And the Centers for Disease Control should be brought in to investigate the matter thoroughly.”
Obama knows our lease has expired. He will give Guantanamo back to Cuba before his term is over
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