Monday, September 10, 2012
Guantanamo Detainee Found Dead in Cell- Dempsey Payne
Guantanamo Detainee Found Dead in Cell
An unidentified Guantanamo Bay detainee was found dead in a cell over the weekend. The detainee -along with others- had been participating in a hunger strike since earlier this year. The captive was not a high profile target and was not currently being tried by the military commissions. With the death there are now only 167 detainees at the camp, a stark difference to the 779 at its peak.
It still surprises me that Guantanamo is around and able to carry out some of its constitutionally maligned tactics under the pretense of Terrorism. When you start side-stepping the rights of the people the line gets more and more transparent. The fact that we cannot decide on a specific definition for terrorism is akin to the constitution not having a bill of rights. The general public does not know what really goes on in Guantanamo, or how truthful the stories they push out are, but I believe we should be a lot more suspicious.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guantanamo-detainee-found-dead-cell-183046712--abc-news-topstories.html?_esi=1
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I was listening to this story earlier this morning, and I thought I heard the cellmate was one of the people that helped plot the 9/11 attack...guess not. It'll be interesting to see what the medical examiner says.
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