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"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Guantanamo detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for men held in isolation 22 hours a day."
"Make no bones about it, these are very dangerous men," Vargo said, citing incidents in which detainees splashed guards with bodily fluids, and head-butted, kicked and bit them. "But at the same time, you have to provide them with some type of out."
Attorneys for detainees say the assaults are partly triggered by frustration among men who, more often than not, were captured far from any battlefield and have been locked up for as many as six years with no real chance to confront accusations that they are enemy combatants."
"Zachary Katznelson, an attorney representing detainees, said he welcomes planned changes.
"Right now the men in Camp 6 sit in steel boxes without windows for at least 22 hours a day," he said. "They have no mental stimulation, nothing to do.
"But the real issue remains the fact that the men are being held without charge or trial," Katznelson added. "English lessons do not equal a return to American values like due process. It's just putting lipstick on a pig."
It goes on and on and on with apparently no end to it anytime soon.Held with no trial as long as 6 years in some cases.
Land of the free, home of the brave, are just hollow words as the US apparently is so scared we have chucked everything we claim we once stood for by having such a situation.Cause Bush and his minions say your guilty you are ,who needs those annoying things like trials,due process.Just lock em up forever,sounds like the things people have said all those bad ole dictatorships have done and do,is it really any different when a "Democracy" does the same things?
EDIT: Here is a related story on how "secret evidence" is making prosecutions difficult,how convienent is that?
"Secret evidence bogs down Gitmo hearings"
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"GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated Guantanamo detainees, the commander of the prison camps has instituted language classes, a literacy program and wants to open communal areas for men held in isolation 22 hours a day."
"Make no bones about it, these are very dangerous men," Vargo said, citing incidents in which detainees splashed guards with bodily fluids, and head-butted, kicked and bit them. "But at the same time, you have to provide them with some type of out."
Attorneys for detainees say the assaults are partly triggered by frustration among men who, more often than not, were captured far from any battlefield and have been locked up for as many as six years with no real chance to confront accusations that they are enemy combatants."
"Zachary Katznelson, an attorney representing detainees, said he welcomes planned changes.
"Right now the men in Camp 6 sit in steel boxes without windows for at least 22 hours a day," he said. "They have no mental stimulation, nothing to do.
"But the real issue remains the fact that the men are being held without charge or trial," Katznelson added. "English lessons do not equal a return to American values like due process. It's just putting lipstick on a pig."
It goes on and on and on with apparently no end to it anytime soon.Held with no trial as long as 6 years in some cases.
Land of the free, home of the brave, are just hollow words as the US apparently is so scared we have chucked everything we claim we once stood for by having such a situation.Cause Bush and his minions say your guilty you are ,who needs those annoying things like trials,due process.Just lock em up forever,sounds like the things people have said all those bad ole dictatorships have done and do,is it really any different when a "Democracy" does the same things?
EDIT: Here is a related story on how "secret evidence" is making prosecutions difficult,how convienent is that?
"Secret evidence bogs down Gitmo hearings"
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