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Astonishing Report: We're Executing Gitmo Prisoners and Calling It Suicide | | AlterNet

It’s hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month's Harper’s Magazine (available on the web here), but let's try this: The three "suicides" at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations in a secretive block in Guantánamo, conducted by an unknown agency, and the murders were then disguised to look like suicides. Everyone at Guantánamo knew about it. Everyone covered it up. Everyone is still covering it up.

Establishing a case for murder -- and the disclosure of a secret prison at Guantánamo

Yasser Talal al-ZahraniThe key to the discovery of the murder of the three men -- 37-year old Salah Ahmed al-Salami, a Yemeni, 30-year old Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, a Saudi, and 22-year old Yasser Talal al-Zahrani (photo, left), a Saudi who was just 17 when he was captured -- is Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman, a former Marine who reenlisted in the Army National Guard after the 9/11 attacks, and was deployed to Guantánamo in March 2006, with his friend, Specialist Tony Davila. On arrival, Davila was briefed about the existence of "an unnamed and officially unacknowledged compound," outside the perimeter fence of the main prison, and explained that one theory about it was that "it was being used by some of the non-uniformed government personnel who frequently showed up in the camps and were widely thought to be CIA agents."

Hickman and Davila became fascinated by the compound -- known to the soldiers as "Camp No" (as in, "No, it doesn't exist") -- and Hickman was on duty in a tower on the prison's perimeter on the night the three men died, when he noticed that "a white van, dubbed the 'paddy wagon,' that Navy guards used to transport heavily manacled prisoners, one at a time, into and out of Camp Delta, [which] had no rear windows and contained a dog cage large enough to hold a single prisoner,” had called three times at Camp 1, where the men were held, and had then taken them out to "Camp No." All three were in “Camp No” by 8 pm.

At 11.30, the van returned, apparently dropping something off at the clinic, and within half an hour the whole prison "lit up." As Horton explains:

Hickman headed to the clinic, which appeared to be the center of activity, to learn the reason for the commotion. He asked a distraught medical corpsman what had happened. She said three dead prisoners had been delivered to the clinic. Hickman recalled her saying that they had died because they had rags stuffed down their throats, and that one of them was severely bruised. Davila told me he spoke to Navy guards who said the men had died as the result of having rags stuffed down their throats.

As Horton also explains:

The presence of a black site at Guantánamo has long been a subject of speculation among lawyers and human-rights activists, and the experience of Sergeant Hickman and other Guantánamo guards compels us to ask whether the three prisoners who died on June 9 were being interrogated by the CIA, and whether their deaths resulted from the grueling techniques the Justice Department had approved for the agency’s use -- or from other tortures lacking that sanction.

Complicating these questions is the fact that Camp No might have been controlled by another authority, the Joint Special Operations Command, which Bush's defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, had hoped to transform into a Pentagon version of the CIA. Under Rumsfeld's direction, JSOC began to take on many tasks traditionally handled by the CIA, including the housing and interrogation of prisoners at black sites around the world.

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Charles Bronson (Michael Peterson)

This is about the man called Michael Peterson, who eventually changed his name to Charles Bronson. He has been known as the most violent prisoner in the UK.
I am here to set the record straight, yes he was a armed robber and yes he attacked the prison system, but this man has never murdered, manslautered, rapped, or been a peadophile.
So whats the problem you ask, he has been in UK prisons for over 35 years and mostly in solitary confinement, the question is why?
When a DVD came out Charles was Ghosted (moved at night) from Wakefield to Long Lartin.
In Wakefield he had drawing equipment, writing equipment but was still in a cage inside a cell, now at Long Lartin he is not allowed any thing except a cheque made out tho the HMPS, so who in the right mide would do that to get Charles his Canteen money, there is no way of knowing he has got the money.
In Wakefield I could correspond with Charles quite easy but when moved the Justice system then showed there true face, it took me letters to know Charles was there as they would not tell me over the phone. So I wrote to the prison locater service and then they told me he was at Long Lartin and to ring them to see what I could send, the answer was just a cheque made out to HMPS and it was up to Charles to tell me what he could have.
Well how do I do that if I can not write to him, no one in the Justice Department or UK cares about this man except his supporters, I wrote to the Queen, the Prime Minister, Jack Straw and I had a letter back of one man who was case supervisor.
I can not send letters, stamps, drawing equipment, clothing, photos and why, this man has been forgot about and it is his civil right to be treated properly.
I think it is he has seen the injustice and the corupption in the penal system and also seen peadophiles and rappists paroled and turn back straight into prison, like Huntley who has games consoles, tv, letters and all creature comforts.
No Justice, join the fight and hope that Current TV helps Gavin on the web site to also help the fight.
Go to the web site and sign the e-petition and let this man out like we do with terrorists.
FREE CHARLES BRONSON NOW.This is about the man called Michael Peterson, who eventually changed his name to... more

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