Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama

AlterNet by Jeremy Scahill | May. 15, 2009 (News Report)
The 'Black Shirts' of Guantanamo routinely terrorize prisoners, breaking bones, gouging eyes, squeezing testicles, and 'dousing' them with chemicals.

an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guantánamo. Among them: "blows to [the] testicles;" "detention underground in total darkness for three weeks with deprivation of food and sleep;" being "inoculated … through injection with 'a disease for dog cysts;'" the smearing of feces on prisoners; and waterboarding. The torture, according to the Spanish investigation, all ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Human Rights, Racism, Torture, Democrats, Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 19, 2009 - 2:01 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 19, 2009

Detailed and thorough investigative reporting of subhuman behaviors continuing under the Obama administration and the Democrats.

And we worked to elect Democrats for what change? Muchos gracias to Spain for investigating violations of international law.

“Every time I witnessed an IRFing a camera was present, but one of two things would happen: (1) the camera would never be turned on, or (2) the camera would be on, ... More »

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    Democracy Now by Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman | May. 19, 2009 (News Report)
    the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, including gang-beating them, breaking ...
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