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A lawyer who has visited his client being held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told the BBC prisoners there are not being treated equally. Stephen Kenny was the first civilian lawyer allowed access to any of the former Afghan war suspects being held at the military facility. He said there was a pecking order of treatment depending on the captive’s nationality - with Americans on top.
Here is a link to a post from 9/16 called: Gitmo Reward Plan Lets Prisoner Earn Perks. To the more than casual observer, it should be obvious that the US has different layers of treatment for detainees. Inequality of treatment is not much of a dirty little secret to expose when it has been publicized two months ago. It is interesting to note that the Americans must be sucking up the extra benefits. Our punks don’t make very committed jihadis.
Mr Kenny visited his client - Australian David Hicks - last week. He said Mr Hicks - a convert to Islam who was arrested two years ago in Afghanistan - had survived reasonably well, but had a desperate desire to go home.
- Obviously a stooly if he is being treated well.
Mr Hicks "was absolutely glad to see me. Indeed, his last letter home wanted to know where I was and why hadn’t I been there," Mr Kenny told the BBC’s World Today programme. The lawyer said that in order to be allowed to see his client, he had to sign a legal document preventing him from talking about anything related to Guantanamo Bay and what he saw there without the permission of the US military authorities. Nevertheless, Mr Kenny said inmates appeared to be treated differently depending on whether they came from countries that had allied themselves with the Americans or not.
A brilliant stroke of genius - break regulations in defending a man who will be tried in a miltary tribunal. |