http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/National_Geographic_film_goes_Inside_Guantanamo.html?siteSect=143&sid=10534606&cKey=1238761449000&ty=tiApril 3, 2009 - 12:06 PM
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo military prison guards call it a "cocktail," the mix of faeces, urine and spit that inmates hurl at them and that dramatizes the soldiers' view that they are serving on a battlefield.
The inmates talk of their years behind steel doors, many held without charges, and denounce their American jailers as "attackers of Muslims ... with blood on your hands."
The day-to-day tensions between inmates -- some of whom charge torture -- and the troops who guard them are vividly depicted from both perspectives in a new National Geographic documentary, "Explorer: Inside Guantanamo."
"This is still an integral part of the war on terror," Guantanamo's "warden," Col. Bruce Vargo said in the movie. A former inmate agrees, calling Guantanamo a physical and psychological "war zone."