Lawyer: Abuse in Gitmo worse since Obama
Yes, folks, it's getting worse.
Captured terrorists, brutally restricted by the U.S. to having only two strawberries in their shortcake instead of three for dessert after dinner, have now been cut down to one.
It's enough to make a terrorist consider another line of work.
(No truth to the rumor that that was the whole idea.)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...090225?sp=true
Exclusive: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama
Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:48am EST
by Luke Baker
LONDON (Reuters) - Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents detainees.
Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger strike.
The Pentagon said on Monday that it had received renewed reports of prisoner abuse during a recent review of conditions at Guantanamo, but had concluded that all prisoners were being kept in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.
"According to my clients, there has been a ramping up in abuse since President Obama was inaugurated," said Ghappour, a British-American lawyer with Reprieve, a legal charity that represents 31 detainees at Guantanamo.
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
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