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Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Mar 21, 2005 at 11:04:11 AM EST
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A former lawyer for Guantanamo detainee David Hicks says there are 500 hours of videotape of Guantanamo detainees that evidence torture.

Mr [Stephen] Kenny said the full story of abuse at Guantanamo Bay would not be told until the tapes were released, but they could be as damaging as the images of Iraqi prisoners being abused by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison.

"I believe that these videos, if they are ever released, will be as explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib," Mr Kenny told the LawAsia Downunder conference.

These are the tapes of the Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) that we wrote about in May, 2004, here .

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    • Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse | 5 comments (5 topical)
    Re: Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Mar 21, 2005 at 02:38:00 PM EST
    its a shame that mentally disabled terry schiavo can't get the same protection as terrorists, either by the law, the politicians, the media, or her husband.

    Re: Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse (none / 0) (#2)
    by jondee on Mon Mar 21, 2005 at 02:50:03 PM EST
    Maybe a little softening up, water boarding,and some gentle prodding with a halogen bulb would make a Terry come around. But then,she dosnt have the kind of pull with the MSM that the terrorists do.

    Re: Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Mar 21, 2005 at 05:51:11 PM EST
    Not another one.

    Re: Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Mar 21, 2005 at 09:18:31 PM EST
    It's not really torture, just stress positioning etc. I would bet we could make Alberto confess it's torture in a few short hours of stress positioning though. Roll the tape.

    Re: Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 22, 2005 at 12:08:06 PM EST
    I say take out their feeding tubes.... If it's good enough for Terri (no pain so they say)..then it's good enough for them. Or, would the 'left' blow a gasket if they had any inkling we were 'starving' those poor guys? I think we all know the answer. Hypocrits!

    Lawyer: Videotapes Exist of Guantanamo Abuse | 5 comments (5 topical)