There can be little doubt that the whole exercise of renditioning under the Bush Administration, and what has been going on at Gitmo, is just one part of the dark side of George W's years in office.
All too sadly, it seems that despite the PR hype that Obama has stopped "things" at Gitmo, The Guardian reports that matters have gone from bad to worse in the last days:
"Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer, will step through the grand entrance of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London tomorrow and demand the release of her client - a British resident who claims he was repeatedly tortured at the behest of US intelligence officials - from Guantánamo Bay. Bradley will also request the disclosure of 42 secret documents that allegedly chronicle not only how Binyam Mohamed was tortured, but may also corroborate claims that Britain was complicit in his treatment.
But first, Bradley, a US military attorney for 20 years, will reveal that Mohamed, 31, is dying in his Guantánamo cell and that conditions inside the Cuban prison camp have deteriorated badly since Barack Obama took office. Fifty of its 260 detainees are on hunger strike and, say witnesses, are being strapped to chairs and force-fed, with those who resist being beaten. At least 20 are described as being so unhealthy they are on a "critical list", according to Bradley."
Continue reading here, both as to Gitmo but also in relation to that now infamous case playing out in the British courts and another proceeding just getting underway in San Fransisco relating to renditioning.
All too sadly, it seems that despite the PR hype that Obama has stopped "things" at Gitmo, The Guardian reports that matters have gone from bad to worse in the last days:
"Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer, will step through the grand entrance of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London tomorrow and demand the release of her client - a British resident who claims he was repeatedly tortured at the behest of US intelligence officials - from Guantánamo Bay. Bradley will also request the disclosure of 42 secret documents that allegedly chronicle not only how Binyam Mohamed was tortured, but may also corroborate claims that Britain was complicit in his treatment.
But first, Bradley, a US military attorney for 20 years, will reveal that Mohamed, 31, is dying in his Guantánamo cell and that conditions inside the Cuban prison camp have deteriorated badly since Barack Obama took office. Fifty of its 260 detainees are on hunger strike and, say witnesses, are being strapped to chairs and force-fed, with those who resist being beaten. At least 20 are described as being so unhealthy they are on a "critical list", according to Bradley."
Continue reading here, both as to Gitmo but also in relation to that now infamous case playing out in the British courts and another proceeding just getting underway in San Fransisco relating to renditioning.
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