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2.11.02
BushMob Satanists keep POWs in 'limbo'--or HELL
There's NO DOUBT that those UNFORTUNATE enough to have escaped being
butchered via mass bombings, mass-asphyxiations and firearms massacres
who were rounded up and brought to Guantanamo ARE being subjected to
Nazi/Commie-style drugging, mind-control experimentation, biological
experimentation, torture, brainwashing, indoctrination and other
heinous, vicious crimes against humanity -- fully worthy of the darkest,
most dismal days of the Third Reich.
BushMob punks deserve some of their own medicine -- no spoonful of sugar either.
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020211_591.html
War Detainee ID's Remain in 'Limbo'
** Identities of Many Afghan War Detainees Now Being Held in Cuba
Remain in 'Limbo'
The Associated Press
Feb. 11
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) Despite being interrogated for
nearly three weeks, a large number of detainees from the Afghan war
still have not been identified as fighters for either the Taliban or
al-Qaida, a U.S. official said.
"We have more people in limbo," U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs officer
Maj. Stephen Cox said Sunday.
Cox declined to say whether they made up a majority of the prisoners.
But he confirmed that they outnumber both those claiming to be Taliban
and those determined to be al-Qaida.
Investigators from civilian and military agencies have been questioning
prisoners since Jan. 23, when 158 inmates were at this remote U.S.
military outpost in southeast Cuba. Flights bringing more prisoners from
Afghanistan's Kandahar airport were suspended so authorities could
concentrate on the ongoing interrogations.
Flights resumed last week, bringing the number of detainees to 220.
Camp officials said it was premature to assume most prisoners were from
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, which is believed to be
responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
"Many of the detainees are not forthcoming," Brig. Gen. Mike Lehnert,
the Marine in charge of the detention mission, said Saturday. "Many have
been interviewed as many as four times, each time providing a different
name and different information.
"All that we can say with certainty is that none of these people are on
our side," Lehnert said.
The first group of prisoners sent to Guantanamo from Afghanistan "was
determined to have the greatest intelligence value because of their
positions, their standings in either the al-Qaida or Taliban," Cox said.
"Because of that value, they were determined to be the most dangerous
because of the information they possessed."
After visiting the Camp X-ray detention facility two weeks ago,
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma said he did not believe more
than 15 percent of the 158 detainees, or about 24 people, held then were
from Afghanistan.
U.S. officials had said the detainees come from 25 countries. That
number increased to 26 with Saturday's arrivals, Cox said Monday.
A senior Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity Thursday
said the detainees included about 50 Saudis, 30 Yemenis, 25 Pakistanis,
eight Algerians, three Britons and small numbers from Australia,
Belgium, Egypt, France, Russia and Sweden.
The official did not mention Afghans, who formed the ousted Taliban
regime that harbored al-Qaida while ruling Afghanistan. While some
foreigners fought for the Taliban, the majority were believed to be
fighting for al-Qaida.
As reporters stood outside the barbed wire surrounding the camp of
chain-link cells Sunday, three men carrying briefcases emerged from a
van and entered the detention facility. Later, at least one prisoner
wearing an orange jumpsuit was led to the door of a wooden interrogation hut.
"We're pretty well moving detainees throughout the day to the JIFs
(Joint Interrogation Facilities), so there is a steady flow over there,"
Camp Commander Col. Terry Carrico said Sunday. "The total number in a
day, I can't really speak to, but we keep 'em busy."
Army Pfc. Jason Ortiz, one of the soldiers standing guard during
interrogations, said the questioning can last up to four hours.
Thus far, not one of the detainees he has guarded has refused to speak
or resisted his questioners, he said.
"It seems to me like they're very cooperative, that they're providing
the information they can," Ortiz said.
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