Changingcells
The US government has admitted that it doesn’t even know how many people it’s holding prisoner in the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, let alone their names. Apparently translating the names from Arabic to English has created problems with spelling… hey, why bother finding out who you’re holding, when you can just call them Sub-human A-rab Terrorist #001 etc. It’s not as though they’re going to get a fair trial anyway.
Elsewhere, The Miami Herald has a piece on life for the not-exactly-legally-held prisoners at Camp Happyland:
Announcements are also made over the loudspeakers, although some of the 80 translators here must supplement them because the detainees speak 17 languages. Information is carefully controlled, camp commander Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller said.
Detainees did not learn of the Iraq war until after Baghdad fell, for example.
“We said ‘There was a war in Iraq and the U.S. won’,” Miller said. The news particularly surprised the small number of Iraqis here, he added.
Think that might come as a bit of a surprise to a large number of Iraqis in Iraq too.
Inside the Camp Iguana dorm, where the children (some as young as 13, lest we forget) are held, there is “a kitchenette with a refrigerator full of fruit and a nonoperational stove ‘for aesthetic purposes’.” Well, it’s good to know that the children’s aesthetic needs are being met, even if their human rights aren’t. Perhaps they could fly in Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen to give the cells a Baroque-style makeover with some MDF?
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