Guantanamo Bay Rant #2

The CIA water boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times and Obama gave immunity to those responsible. That apparently is American justice, the kind of justice they want to spread in the Middle East. Apparently torture is acceptable if its a western government (Gadaffi and Mubarak should have taken notes!) 


America has got away with kidnapped 779 men and taking them to Cuba, thats rights ladies and gents, CUBA! Rather than hold them in the country they were found and arrested in, they took them far far away...why? The answer is pretty darn simple, they do not have to abide by the Geneva Convention. They can do what they want with these human beings, regardless of what crimes they MAY have committed surely nothing justifies such a violation of human rights. Most of these victims of the American "justice" system  have been released without charge. 

Here are some stats as of January 17th 2011 :

• 779 acknowledged prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay to date (there are indications that various prisoners were held in Guantánamo Bay in secret from 2003 until June 2004 when the US Supreme Court ordered that the prisoners be allowed access to courts, but these prisoners have never been identified.
• 535 men reviewed by Combatant Status Review Tribunals.
• 497 men designated Enemy Combatants by CSRTs.
• 38 men designated No Longer Enemy Combatants by CSRTs.
• 173 men left in Guantánamo.
• 89 of these men cleared for release by the US authorities.
  
• 14 British nationals and residents released to date.
• 38 habeas petitions granted (one subsequently reversed by DC Circuit Court).
• 20 habeas petitions denied (one susbsequently vacated by DC Circuit Court).
• 6 prisoners who have died at Guantánamo, one from cancer, five suspiciously.
• 16 Guantánamo prisoners who are known to have been held at CIA-run facilities. 

Omar Khadr

 There are known cases of sexual, physical and psychological abuse. Omar Khadr was only 15 years old when he was captured, but 8 years later he still resides there. In the early spring of 2003, Khadr was told "Your life is in my hands" by a military interrogator, who spat on him, tore out some of his hair and threatened to send him to a country that would torture him more thoroughly, making specific reference to an Egyptian Askri raqm tisa ("Soldier Number Nine") who enjoyed raping prisoners.
Everything about his story suggests he SHOULD have been tried as a minor, however the US had no mercy. What does this sentence mean for other child soldiers? Why is the United Nations so quiet about such a ridiculous sentence? Why is the world silent on the blatant torture this child has been through??????

I leave you with this question - The crimes that Gadaffi/Mubarak committed, are they really that different to the crimes that the US has committed? Ask the mother in Iraq who lost her entire family because soldiers were bored, ask the man who was arrested by US forces and sexually humiliated, ask the Palestinian father who witnessed his son being blown to bits by weaponry supplied by the US...