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Gitmo Prisoners ‘Thought It Was the End of the World’ on Election Night, Asked for Tranquilizers
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Posted on 12/01/2016 9:20:53 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Gitmo Prisoners ‘Thought It Was the End of the World’ on Election Night, Asked for Tranquilizers

BY: Chandler Gill December 1, 2016 10:53 am

Prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba “thought it was the end of the world” the night of the presidential election and asked their guards for tranquilizers and sleeping pills, CBS correspondent Margaret Brennan reported Thursday.

David Remes, the lawyer of one of the prisoners at Guantanamo, recounted to Brennan what his client told him about election night.

“He said that many detainees thought that it was the end of the world and felt terrible and that many detainees asked for tranquilizers, sleeping pills because they were so distraught,” Remes said.

Remes said he is afraid that once Donald Trump officially becomes president, the doors will “slam shut” and remaining detainees will not be able to be released.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: guantanamo; trumpstillwinning; trumpwinsagain
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To: Squidpup

Part of the guards “torture” between the waterboarding sessions was allowing them to watch the mainstream media’s talking heads weep on live tv.


41 posted on 12/01/2016 11:09:44 AM PST by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: Billthedrill

They should hand out kool aid.

Jonestown vintage.


42 posted on 12/01/2016 11:12:44 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: smileyface

You’ll never be President if you use that kind of language!

... unless it’s in the Conservative Locker Room, FreeRepublic.com


43 posted on 12/01/2016 1:22:31 PM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: All

They’re able to get their drugs of choice? That’s Club Gitmo.


44 posted on 12/01/2016 8:23:06 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought their highest calling was to die for Allah! Now that it looks (to them) like they might do so, they’re whining?


45 posted on 12/02/2016 12:48:07 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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