Former detainee: Gitmo is the ‘worst place in the world.’
By on Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Former detainee: Gitmo is the ‘worst place in the world.’
This week, a judge ordered the release of three Guantanamo detainees, the first to be released as a result of a U.S. court ruling, because the government failed to prove they were “enemy combatants.” One detainee had particularly strong feelings about being held for seven years without charge at Guantanamo:
“For almost seven years, I was at the end of the world, at the worst place in the world,” Mustafa Ait Idir told the Dnevni Avaz a day after arriving back in his adopted homeland of Bosnia. “It would have been hard even if I had done something wrong (but) it is much harder if one is totally innocent,” he said.
Vice President Cheney said this week that Guantanamo was “well-run” and detainees were “well-treated.”
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Gitmo is the ‘worst place in the world.’
December 17th, 2008 at 7:59 pmthe conditions of which were created and heralded by the worst “humans” in the world.
Sheesh.
So the Neocon’s change the semantics Their not POW’s, but enemy combatants.
Is this because we’re not technically at war?
And now they can’t even keep em locked up because they can’t prove they’re EC’s?
P R I C E L E S S .
December 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pmIf Cheney came to my house, I would treat him “well” also!
December 17th, 2008 at 8:14 pmFormer detainee: Gitmo is the ‘worst place in the world.’»
– - Hey, open a Disneyland at Gitmo. The Happiest Place on Earth will be the yin to Gitmo’s yang.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pmThis is total John Kerry bait…
December 17th, 2008 at 8:19 pmBush: “You Have To Keep Repeating Things To Catapult The Propaganda”
It’s all been right out there in the brazen open, and still is.
Nancy: Huh?
December 17th, 2008 at 8:23 pmJohn Kerry.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:41 pmI knew you couldn’t resist this one. To be quite honest, I don’t really feel like cooking so how about just a beer or a glass of red? I think I have a chunk of smoked salmon and a half a jar of marinated artichoke hearts…
Of course in the real world, Dick(head) Cheney is simply a corrupt, morally bankrupt, lying sack of shit!
December 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pmRight now Americans really don’t care what the detainees have to say about being held for 7 years without charges even knowing they are innocent and being tortured/raped and other killed at Gitmo. But becarefull because the same thing can be done to Americans by other countries and terrorist while the Bush Policy will be used to support the conduct. It’s so easy to hurt other but turn around is fair game. What Bush/Cheney have done will be done to Americans and even Obama/Biden couldn’t justify stopping it. You get what you give out in the end.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:58 pmCan anyone interested in discussing John Kerry’s ideas please welcome him. He seems a little shy and I think we might all enjoy the sharing of ideas which might ensue should John feel a little more safe here. I mean that John. I really do…
December 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pmJohn Kerry Says:
ONE WORD…….
BULLSHIT!!!
We know what you are already, you don’t have to keep telling us JK.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:22 pmI heard on NPR tonight that the “former” detainees were still shackled and hooded for the plane-ride back.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pmThis is the new America – this is what these criminals have done to us. And that doesn’t even take in to account what they have done to others. Such shame upon us and all our houses. We will pay, we are paying. Pay attention America, fascism came to us wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, please pay attention.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pmAnd pseudo John Kerry, Stick IT!!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:22 pmVice President Cheney said this week that Guantanamo was “well-run” and detainees were “well-treated.”
And if that’s the case, Dick, you and your BFF George should have no problem spending the next seven years hangin’ in that fab Caribbean resort spot! Look for Blackwater to provide the room service and security for ya – I hear they’ll soon be looking for new work.
History will remember this administration, but not in the way they might want.
PEACE
December 17th, 2008 at 11:00 pmI meant wimp Carl Levin, not Rachel.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pmWhere’s the Democratic Congress on all this? Carl Levin is on Rachel Maddow. Wimp!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pmTime travel!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pmIf it was well run and detainees were well treated, why didn’t Cheney allow the UN Human Rights Commission to conduct a review of the facility?
December 17th, 2008 at 11:52 pmGod, it’s unimageable to think that chimpy can snatch anyone from their homes and can hold/tortured them without cause.
The man should be fully compensated and an formal apology is in order.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:02 amThose innocent men/woman/childrend we held in Gitmo and other prisoner can’t tell their story their dead.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:36 amI think there wil be a “worst place in the world” waiting for that piece of scum Cheney and Bush when they meet their makers.They have done nothing but disaster for all of us and we should make sure they both face the same fate as saddam.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:47 amhttp://torturingdemocracy.org/
This was posted by someone else on an earlier thread and I thank them for it.
The American people should be outraged. Why they are not is anybodies guess.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:50 amGitmo: a symbol of PRECISELY the OPPOSITE of EVERYTHING that America stands for. Thanks to the republicans (just the new neo-nazis) Gitmo NOW represents everything that America is RECOGNIZED as being.
I thought that they claimed that the prisoners there were fed some of the best food in the world. Steak and lobster every day. And given that that were true, isn’t that good enough? Wouldn’t YOU want to live there, I mean be imprisoned there for the rest of your life with great free food, and friends who ‘talk’ to you regularly and really want to hear what you have to say? And the free swimming lessons, and the weight training (re: shackles and chains)? I mean, this is serious club materinl. Other prisoners in the world should be so lucky as these people, guilty or innocent. We house them and feed them and talk to them and they are SO ingrateful for all these benefits we have given them. They should want to stay there forever, shouldn’t they. Like some kind of superior welfare thing, right?
December 18th, 2008 at 8:32 amyou have a choice. You can believe an honorable US Senator who says it is a vacation in paradise.
Or you can believe someone who has commited treason against the US and was so bad they had to be sent to Gitmo.
/NARF!
December 18th, 2008 at 10:16 amTracy__5 Says:
I can think of dozens of countries in which the prison conditions are ten times as bad. If this guy thinks that Gitmo was bad, comparitively speaking, he has obviously never been to prison in his home country for one.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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And why should an innocent man have been in a prison in his home country?
December 18th, 2008 at 10:34 amIf Cheney likes it so much, perhaps he should move there. In fact, that’s not a bad idea…
December 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pmJK I have one word for YOU. MORON. You are also a liar and a fool but MORON really says it all
December 18th, 2008 at 6:11 pm