The evil ACLU and Amnesty Int'l are "Defending America's Enemies"

[TexasLawyer]

Super RW rag "FrontPage Magazine" has a link to this article, which is such a lying sack of garbage it is hard to know where to begin.

Guantanamo Human Rights Commission: Defending America's Enemies

Published: Monday, March 07, 2005

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6896

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When new regulations permitted the FBI, CIA, and INS to share information about possible terrorist plots with one another, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attacked this development as an assault on privacy and civil liberties. CCR president Michael Ratner stated, “If the U.S. government truly wants its people to be safer and wants terrorist threats to diminish, it must make fundamental changes in its foreign policies.” In other words the United States was the root cause of the terrorist attacks against it. Ratner is a lifelong supporter of Communist causes.

The detention facilities at Guantanamo, including Camp X-ray and Camp Delta, were constructed specifically to house individuals apprehended in the war on terror. Enemy combatants held at the camp must be foreign nationals who have either received training from al Qaeda, or who have been in command of 300 or more military personnel. They are among the world’s most brutal and committed Islamist enemies of the United States. By incarcerating and interrogating them, the U.S. hopes to gain crucial intelligence that could thwart future terrorist attacks against America and to keep them from returning to the terror war against the United States.

According to the Red Cross, which has made regular visits to the Guantanamo prisons, the detainees are treated humanely (very humanely by the standards of the prisons in their lands of origin). They are supplied with regular meals containing only those foods that their Muslim religious traditions permit them to eat, and each detainee is provided with a copy of the Koran. Yet notwithstanding the fact that the Red Cross has expressed no concern over the prisoners’ treatment, the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission (GHRC), along with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other leftwing “human rights” organizations – which (unlike the Red Cross) do not have access to the detainees – have charged the U.S. with human rights abuses. According to Vanessa Redgrave, “Guantanamo Bay is not a detention center, it is a “concentration camp” where prisoners are routinely subjected to “torture.”

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The GHRC has been successful in its efforts to win the release of some of Guantanamo’s interned enemy combatants. Of the more than 200 detainees who had been set free as of November 2004, an appreciable number returned to terrorism soon after being given their freedom. One former detainee, Abdullah Mehsud, who was released in March 2004 after 25 months in custody, returned to Pakistan and directed the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, one of whom was killed during a rescue attempt.

Senior Taliban commander Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar was held at Guantanamo for eight months prior to release; he was killed by Afghan security personnel in September 2004 after he had rejoined Taliban forces in the country’s southern province. Another recently released detainee murdered a judge outside a mosque in Afghanistan. Still other released prisoners have verbally expressed their desire to return to terrorism. Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane, who was set free in February 2004, sought to join Chechen terrorists in their fight against Russia, stating, “The Muslims are oppressed in Chechnya, and the Russians are carrying out terror against them.” In September 2004, more than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed when Chechen militants laid siege to a Russian elementary school.

[TexasLawyer]

1. Red Cross--U.S. military of using tactics "tantamount to torture"

I guess the only way to make out a case supporting prisoner treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo is to LIE.

Published on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 by Reuters
Red Cross: Guantanamo Tactics 'Tantamount to Torture'


WASHINGTON - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has accused the U.S. military of using tactics "tantamount to torture" on prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.


A detainee is escorted by guards at Guantanamo Bay. In a confidential report the International Committee of the Red Cross said it found prisoner abuse that amounted to 'a form of torture' at the US military facility, The New York Times reported (AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)

An ICRC inspection team that spent most of June at Guantanamo Bay reported the use of psychological and sometimes physical coercion on the prisoners, the newspaper said. It said it had recently obtained a memorandum that quoted the report in detail and listed its major findings.

In Geneva, the ICRC said it would neither confirm nor deny the New York Times report -- in which allegations of treatment tantamount to torture go further than what the neutral intermediary has publicly stated before about inmates held at Guantanamo.

But, in a statement, the Geneva-based ICRC said it remained concerned that "significant problems regarding conditions and treatment at Guantanamo Bay have not yet been adequately addressed," and it was pursuing talks with U.S. authorities.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1130-01.htm

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2. good find TL

I had read this--the idea of the ICRC signing off on Guantanamo didn't ring true.

Bastards.