[Peace-discuss] Former Guantanamo Guard Tells All

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

This is a most interesting article not only for what it confirms but for
what it says that is new news as to the extent of the things that we already
knew but which got little play in mainstream media.  It is surprising that
it would appear in a mainstream magazine; but time have changed and it now
is fashionable for the press to reject the old establishment ideological
propaganda and become supporters of the new establishment and what will be
its dogma. They key mass media principle is to always be on the side of the
winner.

 

It also speaks volumes about the so-called neutrality and objectivity of
professionals - especially in this case of psychologists and medical
professionals in the service and out of the service who contracted with the
Department of Defense, CIA, etc.

 

Former Guantanamo Guard Tells All

http://www.truthout.org/021609L

Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine: "Army Private Brandon Neely served as a
prison guard at Guantanamo in the first years the facility was in operation.
With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against
him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. 'The stuff
I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,' he told the Associated Press.
Neely describes the arrival of detainees in full sensory-deprivation garb,
he details their sexual abuse by medical personnel, torture by other medical
personnel, brutal beatings out of frustration, fear, and retribution, the
first hunger strike and its causes, torturous shackling, positional torture,
interference with religious practices and beliefs, verbal abuse, restriction
of recreation, the behavior of mentally ill detainees, an isolation regime
that was put in place for child-detainees, and his conversations with
prisoners David Hicks and Rhuhel Ahmed."  

 

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