Guantanamo Bay detainee found dead in his cell after 10 years in prison without trial
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Hope this isn't late, this actually happened two weeks ago but I haven't seen it covered anywhere and I only found it just now
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[quote=AFP]A detainee who died over the weekend at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was a 32-year-old Yemeni, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, the US military said Tuesday.
Guards found Latif "unconscious and unresponsive" Saturday in the prison's Camp Five and he was later pronounced dead after repeated attempts to save his life, the US Southern Command said.
[B]No cause of death has been disclosed, but the head of the Miami-based command has initiated an inquiry, the command said in a statement.[/B]
"Following the detainee's death, an autopsy was conducted by a medical examination team from the office of the armed forces medical examiner to determine the cause of death," it said.
"Autopsy results and cause of death determinations take time, and therefore are not available for release," it said.
Latif was the ninth inmate to die at Guantanamo since January 2002 when the prison was opened at the US naval base in Cuba to hold Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan or in neighboring Pakistan.
He was taken to Guantanamo in January 2002 after being captured near the Afghan-Pakistani border.
[B]The US Supreme Court in June refused to hear his case or that of six other Guantanamo inmates contesting their detention, even though a lower court judge had ruled that the evidence against him was too unreliable to justify holding him indefinitely.[/B]
[B]At the time of his death, he had not been charged with a war crime or designated for prosecution, a military spokesman said.[/B]
He was on disciplinary status for splashing a "cocktail of urine and other body fluids" at a guard at least once, a command spokesman, Ray Sarracino, said Monday.[/quote]
Here's a letter which he wrote to his lawyer in 2010.
[url]http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/02/20/another-desperate-letter-from-guantanamo-by-adnan-latif-with-all-my-pains-i-say-goodbye-to-you/[/url]
[quote=Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif]David Remes,
Do whatever you wish to do, the issue is over.
I am happy to express from this darkness and draw a true picture of the condition in which I exist. I am moving towards a dark cave and a dark life in the shadow of a dark prison. This is a prison that does not know humanity, and does not know [anything] except the language of power, oppression and humiliation for whoever enters it. It does not differentiate between a criminal and the innocent, and between the right of the sick or the elderly who is weak and is unable to bear and a man who is still bearing all this from the prison administration that is evil in mercy.
Hardship is the only language that is used here. Anybody who is able to die will be able to achieve happiness for himself, he has no other hope except that. The requirement is to announce the end, and challenge the self love for life and the soul that insists to end it all and leave this life which is no longer anymore called a life, instead it itself has become death and renewable torture. Ending it is a mercy and happiness for this soul.
I will not allow any more of this and I will end it. I will send [move] it to a world that is much better than this world. There, the real life will live again that will be filled with complete happiness and be rid of all harassments. There, the environment will clear up, things will calm down and you will be able to relax and you will not see the world of evil people.
I am in need of a person who blindfolds his eyes from me [looks the other way] and leaves me in my freedom so that I can choose my end. With all my pains, I say goodbye to you and the cry of death should be enough for you.
A world power failed to safeguard peace and human rights and from saving me. I will do whatever I am able to do to rid myself of the imposed death on me at any moment of this prison.
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12/26/2010[/quote]
big surprise.
Saw a small blurb about this on CNN two weeks ago.
So much for closing this place down.
Or at the very least ending the torture and giving the prisoners proper legal proceedings.
It's good Obama kept his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay.
Oh wait
'Murica.
not only is obamonkey destroying murica but now hes destroying the terrists to
mit romney 2012
[quote]He was on disciplinary status for splashing a "cocktail of urine and other body fluids" at a guard at least once, a command spokesman, Ray Sarracino, said Monday.[/quote]
What the fuck
[QUOTE=EliteGuy;37777587]It's good Obama kept his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay.
Oh wait[/QUOTE]
Maybe that would have happened if Republican senators weren't pushing legislation to keep it open.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;37777676]cocktail of urine and other body fluids[/QUOTE]
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I remember reading a book about a Muslim chaplain who worked at Guantanamo Bay. When he was coming back from leave, he got detained for no reason and false charges were placed on him.
It was a really good book. I think it was called For God and Country.
Man Guantanamo Bay has sure left a gigantic shit stain on US history. And why it still exists is completely beyond my comprehension.
Probably a terrorist, do not care.
That place is disgusting. It's so inhumane. They are humans and deserved to be treated with dignity and respect.
detaining people without a trial and letting them rot in a shithole until they die
way to be the shining example of moral righteousness the world needs
[QUOTE=SnarfitySnarf;37777948]That place is disgusting. It's so inhumane. They are humans and deserved to be treated with dignity and respect.[/QUOTE]
They should be treated like every other human beng
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They have cocktail parties in Guantanamo Bay every day.
People who break the rules get extra salt around their margarita glasses.
[QUOTE=EliteGuy;37777587]It's good Obama kept his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay.
Oh wait[/QUOTE]
Congress didn't agree to it.
[QUOTE=booster;37777832]Man Guantanamo Bay has sure left a gigantic shit stain on US history. And why it still exists is completely beyond my comprehension.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much the Obama administration has been trying to get rid of it but the Republicans oppose their efforts at every turn because reasons.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;37778167]Pretty much the Obama administration has been trying to get rid of it but the Republicans oppose their efforts at every turn because reasons.[/QUOTE]
Guantanamo Bay is nothing but a double-edged blade for the US.
Guantanamo is the Chateau d'If of America.
I hear the diving and spear fishing is really nice on base. Apparently you can look hundreds of feet down in the water. Wouldn't mind getting stationed there for a year.
i was under the assumption that the prisoners were being detained as combatants in war and therefore had no right to a trial, merely protection under the geneva convention (and even then that only applies to combatants "in uniform", so to speak, so i'm not sure if it covers al-qaeda fighters dressed up as goat-herders)
e.g. german POWs during WW2 weren't trialed, just locked up until the war ended
No, they have protection under Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, although legally we could not afford them protections under the Geneva Convention and be justified in doing so as AQ does not abide by the convention nor does the organization meet the qualifications for Geneva protection.
Funny thing about G-Bay was everyone in the Bush admin knew it was going to look bad, Don Rumsfeld called G-Bay the "least worst choice" when the Bush adimn was discussing how to detain suspected AQ members in a secure, long term facility.
In fact we only established G-Bay after the disaster at Qala-i-Jangi
and for a short while we held suspected AQ terrorists in the brigs of various US Navy ships.
Bush wanted speedy and fair trials, and signed the executive order for military tribunals of suspected terrorists in back in 2001, the system was actually modeled on FDR's system for convicting Nazi saboteurs in 1942. However lawsuits on the legality of military trials, Supreme Court cases, questions over evidence and the use of torture have delayed the trial process greatly and only two detainee's were tried by the time Bush left office.
Congress also re-wrote the system for military tribunals in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which also authorized the enhanced interrogation techniques that give G-Bay its infamy.
[QUOTE=BoysLightUp;37779594]i was under the assumption that the prisoners were being detained as combatants in war and therefore had no right to a trial, merely protection under the geneva convention (and even then that only applies to combatants "in uniform", so to speak, so i'm not sure if it covers al-qaeda fighters dressed up as goat-herders)
e.g. german POWs during WW2 weren't trialed, just locked up until the war ended[/QUOTE]
here's the difference
german POWs were soldiers fighting in a war
these people are [b]alleged[/b] terrorists
it's just funny because america is actually no better than the "savages" that we claim to fight
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;37777693]Maybe that would have happened if Republican senators weren't pushing legislation to keep it open.[/QUOTE]
Really, what's their reason? Do they genuinely believe everyone there is a terrorist? Do they not give a crap for anyone thrown in jail? Is it their habit of wanting to side with and give benefits to their military friends? Is there some profit to be made from this?
[QUOTE=Drewsko;37780168]Really, what's their reason? Do they genuinely believe everyone there is a terrorist? Do they not give a crap for anyone thrown in jail? Is it their habit of wanting to side with and give benefits to their military friends? Is there some profit to be made from this?[/QUOTE]
They think that closing it will put America at risk.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;37780196]They think that closing it will put America at risk.[/QUOTE]
Hence why they're fucking retarded.
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