Guantanamo detainee describes 'ordeal' of force feeding

19 Jun 2013 14:57 #1 by Reverend Revelant
This is an outrage...

A prisoner currently on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay has described the pain and discomfort of the force feeding regime at the jail.

Algerian detainee Ahmed Belbacha, in testimony given to the BBC, said the process "hurts a great deal" and many prisoners vomit.

He has been held at the US military prison in Cuba for 11 years, but was cleared for release 6 years ago.

Doctors have called for the detainees to receive independent medical care.

On Wednesday, The Lancet published a letter signed by more than 150 doctors and medical professionals to US President Barack Obama saying the hunger strikers needed doctors they could trust.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/22973263


Why can't President Obama just sign an executive order and closed this place like he promise? This is inhuman.

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19 Jun 2013 15:08 #2 by archer
I thought conservatives were against any plan to close Guantanamo

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19 Jun 2013 15:14 #3 by FredHayek

archer wrote: I thought conservatives were against any plan to close Guantanamo

:sarcasm:
:smackshead: The poor man has been cleared for release years ago but Team Obama lets him rot.

Time to withdraw the feeding tubes and let them become Bobby Sands?

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19 Jun 2013 15:38 #4 by Reverend Revelant

archer wrote: I thought conservatives were against any plan to close Guantanamo


Well... when you stereotype conservatives the way you always do... then I guess you're right. If you respect me, then you would understand that I'm not a drone... and that you are dead wrong. Won't be the last time.

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19 Jun 2013 15:38 #5 by Reverend Revelant

FredHayek wrote:

archer wrote: I thought conservatives were against any plan to close Guantanamo

:sarcasm:
:smackshead: The poor man has been cleared for release years ago but Team Obama lets him rot.

Time to withdraw the feeding tubes and let them become Bobby Sands?


Fred... I wasn't being sarcastic.

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19 Jun 2013 15:47 #6 by FredHayek
But I was. For President, his hands seem to be tied most of the time.

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19 Jun 2013 18:22 #7 by Reverend Revelant
I was really on the same page with the President on this issue.

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19 Jun 2013 18:30 #8 by FredHayek

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: I was really on the same page with the President on this issue.

In what he thought or what he actually did? Mixed bag on Gitmo. It is a handy place to store undetermineds but leaving these people in limbo for decades is inhumane especially with some of them being innocents.

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19 Jun 2013 18:47 #9 by KJack
What I don't understand is why Gitmo is so bad? Do these guys really want to trade Gitmo for a supermax?

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19 Jun 2013 19:01 #10 by FredHayek
Right now most of them haven't been tried. If they finally got trials some would be judged innocent and some might get time served. Some could also serve sentences in native countries and see families.

Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.

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