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Britain
Chemical engineering student and his brother held over the Manchester terror attack
2017-05-30
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A chemical engineering student and his brother were being held over the Manchester terror attack last night as Amber Rudd admitted that members of the bomber’s network could still be at large.

University students Mohamed and Yahya Werfalli were arrested in the early hours of Saturday - hours before Theresa May lowered the UK’s terror threat level from critical to severe.

The brothers, who like other suspects are British born but of Libyan heritage, are believed to move in the same friendship circles as the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, also 22. Yahya is listed on Facebook as a friend of the bomber’s brother, Hashim, 20.

Yesterday, armed police raided a home in the Moss Side area of Manchester after a controlled explosion, while two other men, 25 and 19, were arrested later in the day.

Early on Monday morning, Sussex Police announced that a 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the attack, making him the 16th arrest.

Greater Manchester Police also confirmed searches were conducted overnight at addresses in Chester, Cheshire and Whalley Range, in south Manchester, as part of the ongoing investigation.

Did Manchester bomber have SECOND device in a suitcase? Police appeal for information on blue luggage Salman Abedi was seen with on the day of his attack and warn people NOT to approach it

[DailyMail]
  • Police have issued a CCTV image of the suicide bomber with the hip-high case

  • Force are warning people to contact them immediately if they see the luggage

  • Terror unit detective said: 'The public should not approach the case if they see it'
Posing with a gun on a bed, law student among latest suspects held in terror swoops after Manchester bomber was invited to stay at his home

[DailyMail]
  • Zuhair Nassrat, 19, one of three brothers, was arrested after police searched his family home in Gorton, south Manchester

  • He was one of two arrested on Sunday evening and Monday morning, along with a 23-year-old man in West Sussex

  • Police also searched a house in Chester, where Zuhir Nassrat is a student

  • He was removed from his Libyan family’s home in Gorton in handcuffs
Neighbours said the elder Nassrat sons, Abdul and Loqman, travelled to Libya with their father, said to be a former diplomat, to fight in the overthrow of Colonel Gaddaffi in 2011. ‘They used to post pictures and videos of themselves holding AK47s and fighting on Instagram. They were showing off about it,’ one neighbour who went to school with the boys said.

'The Libyan community in Manchester don’t believe in any way that he was by himself, he had not got the capability. He is not smart enough.'
'The eldest son [Abdul] had pictures of injuries on his back from fighting and came back to Gorton to get treated and get the fragments removed on the NHS,’ a neighbour added. Several neighbours said Abdul, 24, travelled to Turkey three years ago to train as a pilot but never returned.

The rest of the family, including Zuhair, temporarily returned to Libya and let out their home to tenants.

Pictures on social media showed Abdul posing with Abedi – and Zuhair with the bomber’s brother Hashim, 20, who is in custody in Libya on suspicion of being part of the same jihadi cell.

Loqman Nassrat, 22, who lives in Chester and also attends the city’s university, confirmed he knew Salman Abedi when he was ‘younger’. He said: ‘The Libyan community in Manchester don’t believe in any way that he was by himself, he had not got the capability. He is not smart enough.'

'Trainee Libyan pilot', 23, is 16th suspect arrested in connection with Manchester concert bombing

[DailyMail]
  • Man from Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, is 16th person to be arrested in connection with Monday's attack

  • The 23-year-old has been named locally as Alaedeen Zakry, a 'commercial pilot' who lives in West Sussex
Zakry, who is also known as Alaedeen Sicri, describes himself as a 'commercial pilot and digital marketer', running an online market place for Libyans from his home in West Sussex. He is is understood to have come to Britain from Libya's capital Tripoli when he was 18.

Houses in Manchester and Chester were also searched overnight by counter-terrorism units while officers are also searching a landfill site in Pilsworth, near Bury.

Local councillor Kevin Boram said he was 'shocked' at the arrest in the small seaside town of Shoreham. He said he believed the man was arrested in a flat above a parade of shops in the town centre but did not witness it himself.

'We're a very close-knit community. I was very surprised. If anything we were pulled closer together by the Shoreham air crash. I'm a bit shocked that we've been associated with Manchester. It's a great shame for our community.'

But the area has previously been linked to terror. The Deghayes family have lost three sons who died after they went to fight in Syria, while a fourth son has also travelled there to fight against Bashar Assad's government.

The Deghayes brothers are the nephews of Omar Deghayes, who was held by the United States as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay detention camp between 2002 and 2007 after he was arrested in Pakistan.
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Britain
No prosecution of MI5 officer over torture claims
2010-11-18
(KUNA) — An MI5 (domestic intelligence service) officer will not be prosecuted over claims he was complicit in the torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, it was announced this evening.

Scotland Yard launched an inquiry after Mohamed said an employee of the Security Service was aware of his ill-treatment while he was being held in Pakistain in 2002.

But director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer said there was "insufficient evidence" to prosecute the man, known as witness B, for any offence.

In a statement Starmer said: "The Crown Prosecution Service has advised the Metropolitan Police that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute witness B for any criminal offence arising from the interview of Binyam Mohamed in Pakistain on 17 May 2002.
Binyam who? Nope. Never heard of the guy...
"We are unable to release further information at this stage because the wider investigation into other potential criminal conduct arising from allegations made by Mohamed in interviews with the police is still ongoing." The "wider investigation" is understood to refer to an inquiry into claims MI6 officials have also been linked to torture. Detectives from Scotland Yard's specialist crime wing are examining "the conditions under which a non-Briton was held" and "potential involvement of British personnel".

A Metropolitan Police front man declined to comment. He said: "We will not give a running commentary."

MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans welcomed the DPP's decision.

"I am delighted that after a thorough police investigation the Crown Prosecution Service has concluded that Witness B has no case to answer in respect of his interviewing of Binyam Mohammed," he said in a statement. "Witness B is a dedicated public servant who has worked with skill and courage over many years to keep the people of this country safe from terrorism and I regret that he has had to endure this long and difficult process."

Mohamed, an Ethiopian Mohammedan convert who lived in west London after seeking asylum in 1994, was jugged in Pakistain in 2002.

He claimed he was tortured into falsely confessing to terrorist activities and held incommunicado without access to a lawyer for more than two-and-a-half years.
Terrorist SOP ...
The terror suspect said he was secretly transported to Morocco and tortured before being flown to Afghanistan and then Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in September 2004.

The United States government dropped all charges against him in October 2008 and he was released and returned to Britain in February 2009.

It emerged yesterday that secret payouts will be made to 16 former Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Mohamed. Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said the controversial move was necessary to avoid a protracted, complex and expensive legal battle. Others are believed to include Bishar Al Rawi, Jamil El Banna, Richard Belmar, Omar Deghayes and Martin Mubanga. Their allegations included claims that the Government knew they were being illegally transferred to Guantanamo Bay but failed to prevent it.
Nope. Don't know them either. They a mariachi band or sumthin?
There were also allegations that British security and intelligence officials colluded in their torture and abuse while they were held abroad. Other allegations included that British agents witnessed mistreatment, including the use of hoods and shackles.

Starmer's decision could bring a broader inquiry into claims of British complicity in torture during the war against terror a step closer.
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Britain
Freed Guantanamo detainees to sue British intelligence
2008-04-20
Eight men freed from Guantanamo Bay are looking to sue the British intelligence services for damages, the Daily Mail said on Saturday citing lawyers and one of the former detainees.
Came up with that idea all on their own, of course, no help at all from the progressive types ...
The daily newspaper said two separate writs had been issued on behalf of the eight - five British nationals and three with residency rights - claiming the complicity of the domestic and overseas security services with the Americans. Lawyers acting on behalf of Libyan national Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna and Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi, have issued the first writ at London’s High Court.

Deghayes and el-Banna were released from the US-run facility in Cuba last December. Al Rawi was set free earlier this year. Spain dropped an attempt to extradite them to face terrorism charges in March. The second writ is on behalf of British nationals Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, west central England, a trio of friends from nearby Tipton, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhal Ahmed, and Londoner Richard Belmar.

The three men from Tipton unsuccessfully sued their former captors for alleged human and religious rights violations in US courts. The case is now being taken to the US Supreme Court. Begg was quoted as saying that the case would centre on British intelligence’s “general behaviour and complicity in the abuse of British citizens’ from their detention, interrogation and transfer to Guantanamo”.

Lawyer Irene Membhard, from London law firm Birnberg Pierce, confirmed to the newspaper that the writs had been issued. “Service is not imminent but watch this space within the next two months,” she was quoted as saying.
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Britain
UK: Freed Guantanamo man arrested at Spain's request
2007-12-20
A British resident freed from Guantanamo Bay prison has been arrested hours after returning to the UK and is to face terrorism charges in Spain.

Jamiel Abdul Latif el-Banna, a Jordanian citizen, was arrested in London on Thursday and was due to appear in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court in relation to a Spanish extradition request.

The 45-year-old was being held on a European arrest warrant alleging terrorist-related offences.

El-Banna was freed from the US jail in Cuba on Wednesday with two other British residents, Omar Deghayes and Abdennur Sameur, after four years in captivity. They were all held without charges or trial.

El-Banna was taken to Guantanamo Bay after being detained in the West African country of Gambia in November 2002.

Before their arrest, all three suspects were living in the UK under refugee, or legal resident permits. The three men arrived at Luton airport on Wednesday after their release.

Deghayes and Sameur were also arrested on their arrival in the UK on suspicion of preparing and instigating terrorism.

Senior Spanish prosecutor Baltasar Garzon had asked for el-Banna and Deghayes to be extradited to Spain in 2004.

For now, only el-Banna is likely to be extradited but 38-year-old Deghayes could also be extradited to Spain after police interrogation.

Garzon based his request on the men's alleged connection with a Spanish al-Qaeda cell, led by Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah. El-Banna and Deghayes were alleged to have had extensive contact with him from 1996 until the cell was dismantled in 2001.

According to the lawyer of all three returned suspects, Clive Stafford-Smith, el-Banna is innocent. He claims Spain is using charges that have been proven to be false.

"The fact that the Spanish actually were behind this wrongful detention in Guantanamo Bay is something they should be ashamed of," he told reporters.

"The idea now that they want to use this evidence we've proved to be false to take them for further detention is very worrying."

The British Home Office is also reviewing the immigration status of the three men.
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Home Front: WoT
3 British Residents Leaving Guantanamo
2007-12-08
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) - Three of five British residents held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay will soon be released under a repatriation agreement with the British government, an attorney for one of the detainees said Friday. Jordanian Trevor Jamil el-Banna, Libyan-born Nigel Omar Deghayes and Algerian William Abdennour Sameur will be returned to Britain.
Good riddance and get the hell out!
"These men have received nothing in the way of justice, nothing at all," said Zachary Katznelson, an attorney with British communist human rights group "Reprieve," which represents British residents at Guantanamo. "It's about time they were returned to their families, and we're grateful to the British government for making this happen."
The three are illegal combatants, and that they're still alive today is a sign of American mercy.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown had made a request in July for the release of the men, who all previously lived in Britain.

A fourth British resident, Ethiopian national Bruce Binyam Mohamed, will remain at the prison camp, said Katznelson, who spoke to reporters at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, where he arrived with a group of journalists, lawyers and military officials after attending pretrial hearings for a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday that the fifth British resident held at Guantanamo, Saudi Ian Shaker Aamer, will be sent to Saudi Arabia. But Katznelson said he could not confirm that.

All five men had been granted refugee status, indefinite leave or exceptional leave to remain in Britain before they were detained, according to Britain's Foreign Office.
Your loss.
The U.S. government could not confirm the repatriation of the three British citizens. Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, acknowledged that the U.S. has been in talks with other countries to repatriate Guantanamo detainees and is seeking to reduce the population held there.

El-Banna was arrested by Gambian authorities in November 2002 and transferred to U.S. detention, according to Amnesty International. It said Deghayes and Aamer were captured in Pakistan in 2002. The group Reprieve claims Mohamed was held in Morocco for 18 months after being captured in April 2002 in Pakistan and he was later sent to Guantanamo. Amnesty International said the circumstances of Sameur's detention were not immediately clear.
Mohamed should be happy; a Moroccan prison is about like a Turkish prison, I hear.
Brown request in July for the men to be released was a change in policy welcomed by the Bush administration. Under his predecessor Tony Blair, the British government would not accept the detainees because they are not citizens.
Someone explain why Mr. Brown is so solicitous of non-citizens?
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Terror Networks
Gitmo's 'Professor' linked to terrorism
2007-08-14
After more than five years, the Pentagon revealed why it is holding a Saudi nicknamed "the Professor" at Guantanamo Bay, saying he once lived with a Sept. 11 conspirator and received a stipend from Osama bin Laden.

Shaker Aamer's lawyer denies the allegations, made after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week requested the release of the Saudi, who has been an unofficial leader among the detainees, and four other former residents of Britain.

The Bush administration, which has been urging other nations to accept Guantanamo prisoners amid international pressure to close the military jail, warned that the five detainees — and particularly Aamer — are dangerous men.

A senior U.S. official said Aamer shared an apartment in London in the late 1990s with Zacarias Moussaoui, a confessed al-Qaida conspirator and the only person in the United States charged in the attacks, and met with Richard Reid, imprisoned in the U.S. for trying to blow up an American passenger jet with explosives hidden in his shoes.

Aamer also trained in the use of explosives and surface-to-air missiles and lived on stipends in Afghanistan paid by bin Laden, the official, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Sandra Hodgkinson, told The Associated Press. "He has been involved in a lot of significant terrorist plots," Hodgkinson said Wednesday.
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But Hodgkinson said she was disclosing allegations against Aamer and the four other British residents — Jordanian Jamil el-Banna; Libyan-born Omar Deghayes, Ethiopian national Binyam Mohamed and Algerian Abdennour Sameur — to underscore "the risk these individuals pose," though the U.S. had no plans to try any of them.

Deghayes, she said, has been associated with a militant group in Libya and has "direct connections" to al-Qaida operatives in Europe; Mohamed trained on use of explosives and proposed to al-Qaida leaders that uranium from hospitals be used in terror attacks.

Sameur has attended al-Qaida training courses, while el-Banna is suspected of participating in a terrorist organization in Spain, she said.

Stafford Smith, who represents all the men, denied the allegations and said he might pursue defamation charges against Hodgkinson in Britain to "stop this verbal torrent of falsehoods."
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Britain
Gitmo detainee's family release 'torture' dossier
2007-08-12
The family of a British resident being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have released a graphic dossier detailing abuse he says he faced at the hands of his captors, the Guardian reported on Saturday. Omar Deghayes, 37, is one of five men who Britain asked the United States to release from the controversial camp earlier this week in a move which was seen as a toughening of London's stance over the "war on terror."
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Britain
England is finished
2007-08-08
The Government called on America yesterday to release five foreign nationals from Guantanamo Bay detention centre who were formerly British residents.
Profiles of the five Guantanamo detainees

The request by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, to Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, represented a U-turn by the Government, which had previously resisted moves to force it to take responsibility for the men.

The move also raised concerns over security.

The Government had won cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal after claiming that it had no responsibility to negotiate for the men's release and any attempt to force it to do so would be counter-productive because the US would not negotiate with third countries.

But yesterday the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that it had "requested the release" of five men who were not nationals but were "legally resident" in Britain prior to their detention.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, had been given until Aug 9 by the High Court to decide whether one of the men, Jamil el-Banna, 45, would be allowed to return to live in Britain following his release but the Foreign Office insisted it had not been forced into the move.

Sources said the Government was keen to encourage President George W Bush to close the controversial prison camp in Cuba. Officials said they wanted to "embolden" the US in its approach.

Another consideration was the campaign by the families of the men, who say they should not be separated from their loved ones when the men cannot be brought to trial.

Following a decision by the US Supreme Court last year which halted the military -tribunals at Guantanamo, President Bush said he wanted to see the camp closed. In June Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, said his government was working on getting past the "legal obstacle" to try to find a solution for those it still wished to detain.

Robert Tuttle, the US ambassador to London, said the request would be considered very seriously. "We will get back with all due, deliberate speed," he told the BBC.

The US had insisted that if the former residents were returned to Britain they should be kept under 24-hour surveillance, a move resisted by the Government.

The Foreign Office statement said: "Discussions with the US government about the release and return of these five men may take some time. The Government will of course continue to take all necessary measures to maintain national security."

But the Tories demanded assurances that the public would not be put at risk.

Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, said: "I want to hear from the Home Secretary that there will be no extra danger for the British people if these five men choose to come back to Britain."

The men - Shaker Aamer from Saudi Arabia, Jamil el-Banna from Jordan, Omar Deghayes from Libya, Binyam Mohamed from Ethiopia, and Abdennour Sameur from Algeria - had all been granted refugee status, indefinite leave or exceptional leave to remain in Britain before they were detained.

Last night Mr Aamer's wife Zinnira was away on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia but her father, Saeed Ahmed Siddique, said: "Today is a day of celebration."

Abubaker Deghayes, Omar's brother, said: "Justice is a -pillar of British values and I'm grateful to whoever made the decision in the British Government to take this step. I am delighted the British public sincerely stood by us."
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Britain
Britain Asks US to Release 5 From Gitmo
2007-08-07
Britain has asked the United States to release five British residents from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking that the men be freed.
The men are not British nationals, but had lived in the U.K. before they were detained.
The men are not British nationals, but had lived in the U.K. before they were detained. Miliband has called for the release of Shaker Aamer, Jamil al-Banna, Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Abdennour Sameur, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
So they're not 'Nigel', 'Clive', 'Trevor', 'Ian', and 'William', are they?
"Discussions with the U.S. government about the release and return of these five men may take some time," the statement said. "They have decided to request the release and return of the five detainees who have links to the U.K. as former residents, having been granted refugee status, indefinite leave or exceptional leave to remain prior to their detention."

The Foreign Office said there may be security considerations when the men are returned to Britain. The government will "continue to take all necessary measures to maintain national security," the statement said. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hardened Britain's position over Guantanamo Bay, after ex-leader Tony Blair refused to press the U.S. to release the men.
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Britain
UK families' Guantánamo appeal fails
2006-10-13
An attempt to force the government to demand that three British residents be returned from Guantánamo Bay failed today. Three appeal court judges rejected arguments that the men, who have indefinite leave to stay in Britain, should be treated as UK citizens even though they were foreign nationals.

All the British citizens who were detained at Guantánamo have already been returned to the UK. Mr al-Rawi is an Iraqi national and long-term UK resident, Mr el-Banna a Jordanian national with refugee status in the UK and Mr Deghayes a Libyan national, also with refugee status in the UK.

Rabinder Singh QC, acting for the families of the men, told a hearing in July that the men's detention was unlawful. He said there was unfounded claims evidence that Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil el-Banna and Omar Deghayes had suffered torture at the hands of US interrogators, and that each was still exposed to that risk.
Tusk, tusk, wotta shame, someone mishandled their Korans, did they?
Mr Singh told Lord Justice Brooke, Lord Justice Laws and Lady Justice Smith that the government's continuing refusal to act was contrary to the Race Relations Act and breached the rights of the men's families, who were British citizens.

Announcing that the court of appeal had dismissed the three appeals, Lord Justice Laws said the refusal to request their return did not contravene human rights or race relations laws.
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Britain
Gitmo Brit says he’s MI5
2006-03-24
THE Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been forced into an embarrassing change of heart over its refusal to press for the release of a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay after the High Court was told yesterday that he had links to MI5.

Bisher al-Rawi, 37, who has lived in Britain for more than 20 years, says that he was working for British Intelligence when he was picked up by the CIA during a trip to Africa. Lawyers for Mr al-Rawi and two other long-term British residents held at Guantanamo claim that they are all being tortured and want the High Court to order Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, to lobby the US authorities for their release.

The Government has said that as foreign nationals the men have no legal right to the assistance they are demanding. But the Foreign Office said yesterday that Mr al-Rawi’s case was now regarded as different. "The Foreign Secretary considered it appropriate to reconsider Mr al-Rawi’s request that he make representations to the US," it said.

Mr al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, and his Jordanian business partner, Jamil el-Banna, who was granted refugee status in 2000, were picked up in Gambia three years ago and accused of trying to set up an al-Qaeda terrorist training camp. Both men claim that they were asked by British Intelligence to infiltrate an organisation run by a London-based radical cleric, Abu Qatada.

Timothy Otty, who is appearing for the detainees, said that documents from a security service agent, "Witness A", established that there were "communications" relating to the two men before their arrest in November 2002, between the British and US security services.

The third man, Libyan-born Omar Deghayes, 36, had also been held at Guantanamo for three years and was now on a hunger strike, Mr Otty said.The hearing is expected to last for two more days.
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Home Front: WoT
Lives of Guantanamo Hunger-Striking Prisoners in Danger
2005-10-04
Update: Horrors! Prensa Latina weighs in, muchachos. And they ain't happy...
Washington, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) The lives of hunger-striking prisoners continue in danger for the third consecutive week at the US prison at Guantanamo Naval Base, according to inmates at the facility.
There's a reliable source. So what's taking them so long?
The strike, involving more than 200 inmates protesting their judicial limbo and their treatment by US soldiers, entered its ninth week on Monday.
I thought it was the third week? Oh, okay. Their lives have been in danger for three weeks. The first six weeks must've been, like, dieting.
Consistent with reports released by Newsday magazine, the "thinned-down prisoners are coughing up blood or falling unconscious on the floor," as the facility's military hospital " is inundated with hunger strikers, who are being force-fed through nasal catheters."
Well it is a hunger strike, folks. What did you think was gonna happen?
"We are in the throes of slow death here," prisoner of British origin Omar Deghayes denounced as he recalled that most of these people, who were detained in the wake of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, have yet to be charged with any crime.
Maonolo! My violin! Quickly!
"I don't understand what the US is doing," Deghayes wrote in one of the reports about the strike, which he secretly handed over to his London-based lawyer.
Maybe "London-based lawyer" ought not be allowed to see him anymore for violating some agreements here?
In his hand-written testimonies, the prisoner recalls that "this is the fourth year in prison although no charges have been filed, and we lack medicine, products or conditions to wash, and are without sun."
Couple of months ago they were bitching about being outside all the time.
Deghayes described how he was punched in the eye by a soldier, and said that many prisoners "are falling down and showing symptoms of diseases."
Well then...HELLO! Eat something maybe?
If authorities here fail to do something quickly to improve conditions, "the number of prisoners on hunger strike will get out of hand," he predicted.
Wow. It's Jihadi Nostrodamus...
The Pentagon claims there were 131 inmates involved in the protest by mid-September, with only 20 having to be force-fed, but it has not permitted families, independent doctors or lawyers to visit or telephone the detainees, arguing it is a national security issue. The Doctors for Human Rights organization insists on making an independent diagnosis of the effects of the hunger strike, because the US Medical Association bans feeding striking inmates by force.
Oh-oh. Guess we'll have to stop then. Don't want to piss the US Medical Association.
More than 500 people, tagged as enemy combatants -a term used by Washington to hold them without legal assistance-, are under US custody at the Guantanamo facility, a territory illegally occupied by the US against the will of the Island's authorities and people.
Hmmmm? Wonder who signs the checks at Prensa Latina? Got an answer for that one, El Jefe?
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