The murders at Guantanamo took place at GUANTANAMO'S “Camp No” (as in, “No, it doesn’t exist”)", an unnamed and officially unacknowledged compound" used by some of the non-uniformed government personnel who frequently showed up in the camps and were widely thought to be CIA agents.
FULL ARTICLES ABOUT THE MURDERES AND THE SECRET PRISON AT: Andy Worthington - Feb 17, 2009
"The 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.”"
More at: MASSIVE COVER-UP OF MURDER EXPOSED - Invictus- January 18, 2009
Extract: "Horton's story, The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle, is dense, and full of amazing facts about the deaths of three Guantanamo prisoners, officially by "suicide." The article is a veritable prosecutor's brief accusing the U.S. government, under both the Bush and Obama administration, of criminal cover-up of these deaths, which were, it seems more and more likely, murder."
Mohammed al-Tumani, who was 18 when he was seized in Afganistan with his father, Abdul Nasir al-Tumani, and both were sent to Guantanamo.
Moammar Dokhan, who was 29 when he was captured on the Pakistani border.
On August 28, 2009 the Portuguese interior ministry announced that two Syrian prisoners had arrived from Guantánamo and had been released on their arrival in Portugal. Officials added that they are “not subject to any charge, they are free people and are living in homes provided by the state.”
Mohammed al-Tumani (identified by the Pentagon as Muhammed Khan Tumani), is now 27 and Moammar Badawi Dokhan is 37 years old. Both were kept in Guantanamo without charge for six years and were “subjected to beatings and physical and psychological torture,” including sleep deprivation.
US Justice Department explained the circumstances of the men’s release, stressing that the final say in approving their transfer had been taken by Congress. “As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantánamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of these cases,” the DoJ announced, adding, “As a result of that review, the detainees were approved for transfer from Guantánamo Bay. On Aug. 6, 2009, in accordance with Congressionally-mandated reporting requirements, the Administration informed Congress of its intent to transfer these two detainees.
Their stories, publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection to terrorism. The circunstances of their transfer to Guantanamo and release: HERE
FULL STORY AT "THE GUANTANAMO FILES" - by Andy Worthington -HERE
Author Kerry Pither will lecture and field comments and questions on her much praised book, " Dark Days ". Date: WEDNESDAY, September 16th, 2009 Time: 7:00 PM - Doors open at 6:45 pm Place: Hintonburg Community Centre 1064 Wellington Street, Wellington Room Ground Floor, (3 blocks west of Somerset) Ottawa, Ontario Free parking in the back of the community centre Bus: No 2
"The US claims to be the land of democracy. Everything I experienced assures me they know nothing of humanity and decency." Sami al-Laithi, former Guantanamo detainee released with no charges
The American euphemistic political language that distorts reality and prevents "THOUGHT" From "War on Terror" to "enhanced interrogation tecnique" - (and some on Torture to extract false Confessions to justify War)
A Dramatic Reading of George Orwell's Classic Work 1984 Interspersed With Clips From George Bush and Others: The Orwellian Language:
"The adjective Orwellian describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson" — a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four."
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court [official website, in German] ruled Thursday that the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) [official website, in German] may not withhold information from parliament without good cause. The case began in 2006 when the BND refused to tell Germany's Green Party whether it was spying on members of parliament. Thursday's ruling requires that the government present a detailed explanation [Tagesschau report, in German] of its reasoning when it refuses to divulge information to parliament. Some members of parliament said they expect currently classified information to become declassified as a result of the the ruling.
Intelligence services of a number of countries have come under government scrutiny in the past month. Earlier this month the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was criticized [JURIST report] by Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee for its role in interrogating a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee. Also this month, the UK Metropolitan Police Service announced it was looking into [JURIST report] allegations that British intelligence officers mistreated former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [JURIST news archive]. The United States House of Representatives Intelligence Committe announced earlier this month that it would open a formal investigation [JURIST report HERE] into a plan to assassinate al Qaeda members that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to disclose to Congress.
The head of CSIS, Jim Judd, says that veteran CSIS advisor Geoffrey O’Brian was wrong when he told the commons committee on public safety on Tuesday that CSIS will use information obtained under torture. (O'Brian's statements - video HERE )
But the images of the video are HERE , for all of us to see. In ONE of CSIS "visits" to Guantanamo, March 30, 2004, Jim Gould, CSIS officer, was one of the interrogators at Guantanamo, and doesn't look like that he was there to get ""information which can prevent something like the Air India bombing, the Twin Towers" etc...
******************************* Newsweek Magazine published the video on July 15, 2008:
This was a "visit" to a 16 years old Canadian who had been in US custody since July 2002. (PDF documents are HERE )
Doesn't look possible that something was to be "prevented"...Also, this was not the first "visit", and Jim Gould was not the only "visitor" :
"11. Compared to last year, Umar has physically matured..."
"As you are aware an officer of this division, together with three other officers, visited Camp Delta on the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,in order to meet with Umar Ahmad Khadr."
(extracted from reports available at the The University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas - HERE)
Documents also show that in "preparation" for the Canadian Officials "visit", the Canadian citizen was put in the "frequent flyer program: for the three weeks before Mr. Gould's visit, Umar has not been permitted more than three hours in anyone location. At three hours intervals he is moved to another cell block, thus denying him uninterrupted'sleep and a continued change of neighbours. He will soon be placed in isolation for up to three weeks and then he will be interviewed again"(extracetd from the report HERE)
Again, this is one of the cases, one of the "visits" ...The only one that had public disclosure in a video.
All documents available on line at The University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas - click HERE)
Doesn't look like that Geoffrey O'Brian is wrong, except for the "eminent threat", or, as per Mr.O'Brian's explanation on why CSIS believes that information obtained under torture can be useful : "information which can prevent something like the Air India bombing, the Twin Towers"
Omar Khadr, was 15 years old when his ordeal started in July 2002 after being transferred to the US prison at Bagram airbase, where was subjected to chronic abuse. He was severely wounded by then. One of his interrogators at Bagram prison was Sgt. Joshua Claus, who was later charged of various crimes, including assault and “maltreatment of a detainee” in connection with the murder of the two men, and was sentenced to five months in jail in 2006.
And to refresh the memory, there was that case ofJack Hooper, former CSIS deputy director, who contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2003 to tell them that it was not in Canada's interests to demand that the United States return Maher Arar, rather than deporting him to Syria.
In 2007, as part of the investigation into government foreknowledge of the torture, it was revealed that Hooper had sent an earlier memo on October 10, 2002 that included the reference "I think the United States would like to get Arar to Jordan where they can have their way with him".
Looks like that CSIS has been immune from accountability for a long time..Remembering THE HILL TIMES - October 2, 2006 - CSIS didn't want Arar returned to Canada - HERE
And more at "Canadian role in Syria torture" - BBC News, October 24, 2008 - HERE
