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		<title>By: Torture Whitewash: How “Professional Misconduct” Became “Poor Judgment” in the OPR Report &#171; freedetainees.org</title>
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		<dc:creator>Torture Whitewash: How “Professional Misconduct” Became “Poor Judgment” in the OPR Report &#171; freedetainees.org</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] allegations of previously unreported murders in the US prison at Bagram airbase (August 2007), Guantánamo Transcripts: “Ghost” Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, And “9/11 hijack... (September 2007), The Trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo’s “child soldier” (November 2007), [...]</description>
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		<title>By: the Shackle Report &#187; Blog Archive &#187; tortured policy</title>
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		<dc:creator>the Shackle Report &#187; Blog Archive &#187; tortured policy</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: NATIONAL SECURITY 4 US</title>
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		<dc:creator>NATIONAL SECURITY 4 US</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>86 percent were not captured by US forces, but by their Pakistani and Afghan allies, at a time when the Americans were making bounty payments, equivalent to an average worker’s lifetime salary, for the delivery of al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects.

Greetings Mr. Worthington,                    10/25/2007 - 4:11 AM

You know Sir, I take great exception towards some of the information that you have been told -vs- THE ACTUAL TRUTH...

Case in point is A.K.G. - this hi-level detainee WAS NOT CAPTURED by Pakistan on 7/25/2004 - he was nabbed in America &amp; flown to Pakistan - for Pakistan to say that they caught him for a couple of reasons:

1 - So that America did not have to pay his reward = $ 25 million

2- So that the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY did not have to explain themselves to Congress/The American people on how a MOST WANTED TERRORIST was able to get into America with a supposed Global Arrest Warrant for his capture...

On 5/26/2004 - U.S.A.G. John Ashcroft &amp; F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller held a Press Conference - link provided below:

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/may04/bolo052604.htm

As you can see 3 of these people are in black &amp; white &amp; 4 are in color - I received this print-out on 12/4/2004...

As I was staring at this fresh evidence that I had just received it hit me -- the color photos meant they&#039;re still active / they&#039;re still on the loose / a fugitive...

The Black &amp; White photos meant that these people were either  CAPTURED OR KILLED...

Now the reason why I say this - is because out of the 7 people who photos appear here above in the F.B.I. link - 6 of them 
were spotted by me in like a 12 day time span...

Two were captured on 5/29/2004 at 6 PM from my 911 call...
Top middle = Aafia Siddiqui
Bottom left = Fazul Abdullah Mohammed = $ 25 million...

Immediately, I learned from my friend in the United States Coast
Guard - that Federal officials were going to cover it up so as not
to pay the reward on F.A.M. -- Needless to say since these matters were SILENCED &amp; SUPPRESSED &amp; MY ACTIONS WERE DISAVOWED AS EVER HAPPENING + THE FACT THAT CONGRESS NEVER THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED MY CLAIMS = F.A.M. was eventually released 1/2007 by being dumped in Somalia &amp; he was
targeted with death twice by airstrikes from warships in 1/2007 &amp; 6/2007 -- missing him both times...

The story on A.K.G. is somewhat longer &amp; is explained entirely in
numerous letters / communications to various Govt. officials that
can be read here:

http://360.yahoo.com/caspereraser1

You know Sir, there is a slew of information about A.K.G. that I have not &amp; can not divulge = that&#039;s my ace in the hole &amp; vital so
that I do not put all my eggs in one basket -- keeping something
up my sleeve -- THAT ONLY I &amp; THE ARRESTING AUTHORITIES
KNOW OF &amp; ABOUT...

I am still trying to find contact information on Lt. Col. Stephen
Abraham as I indicated to you in my recent communication...I 
find it hard to believe that America is so HELLBENT towards the global war on terror -- why they would stoop so low to do what they did to me -- when all I did was fulfill what was asked of all Americans pursuant to the press conference...

Knowing what I know now - at times I really truly wonder if they
really wanted this cell captured or not - was the press conf. all
a charade to look politically correct - were they placed here for
a deliberate mission or helped in anyway by Govt. officials...

Then I read this chilling diabolical story:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/04/addington/index.html?source=newsletter        

This story only SOLIDIFIES my beliefs that I have been telling members of Congress &amp; many others for years now...

Well I imagine that the MILITARY COMMISSIONS&#039; ACT was really
devised from not allowing these - &quot;INDICTED TERRORISTS&quot; from having their day in a - FEDERAL COURT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC so
that whatever it is that some of them may know about any possible Govt. involvement from where ever will never see the light of day -- with the &quot;MCA&quot; -- being ultra super-secret...
 
      


Then A.K.G.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>86 percent were not captured by US forces, but by their Pakistani and Afghan allies, at a time when the Americans were making bounty payments, equivalent to an average worker’s lifetime salary, for the delivery of al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects.</p>
<p>Greetings Mr. Worthington,                    10/25/2007 &#8211; 4:11 AM</p>
<p>You know Sir, I take great exception towards some of the information that you have been told -vs- THE ACTUAL TRUTH&#8230;</p>
<p>Case in point is A.K.G. &#8211; this hi-level detainee WAS NOT CAPTURED by Pakistan on 7/25/2004 &#8211; he was nabbed in America &amp; flown to Pakistan &#8211; for Pakistan to say that they caught him for a couple of reasons:</p>
<p>1 &#8211; So that America did not have to pay his reward = $ 25 million</p>
<p>2- So that the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY did not have to explain themselves to Congress/The American people on how a MOST WANTED TERRORIST was able to get into America with a supposed Global Arrest Warrant for his capture&#8230;</p>
<p>On 5/26/2004 &#8211; U.S.A.G. John Ashcroft &amp; F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller held a Press Conference &#8211; link provided below:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/page2/may04/bolo052604.htm" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.fbi.gov/page2/may04/bolo052604.htm?referer=');">http://www.fbi.gov/page2/may04/bolo052604.htm</a></p>
<p>As you can see 3 of these people are in black &amp; white &amp; 4 are in color &#8211; I received this print-out on 12/4/2004&#8230;</p>
<p>As I was staring at this fresh evidence that I had just received it hit me &#8212; the color photos meant they&#8217;re still active / they&#8217;re still on the loose / a fugitive&#8230;</p>
<p>The Black &amp; White photos meant that these people were either  CAPTURED OR KILLED&#8230;</p>
<p>Now the reason why I say this &#8211; is because out of the 7 people who photos appear here above in the F.B.I. link &#8211; 6 of them<br />
were spotted by me in like a 12 day time span&#8230;</p>
<p>Two were captured on 5/29/2004 at 6 PM from my 911 call&#8230;<br />
Top middle = Aafia Siddiqui<br />
Bottom left = Fazul Abdullah Mohammed = $ 25 million&#8230;</p>
<p>Immediately, I learned from my friend in the United States Coast<br />
Guard &#8211; that Federal officials were going to cover it up so as not<br />
to pay the reward on F.A.M. &#8212; Needless to say since these matters were SILENCED &amp; SUPPRESSED &amp; MY ACTIONS WERE DISAVOWED AS EVER HAPPENING + THE FACT THAT CONGRESS NEVER THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED MY CLAIMS = F.A.M. was eventually released 1/2007 by being dumped in Somalia &amp; he was<br />
targeted with death twice by airstrikes from warships in 1/2007 &amp; 6/2007 &#8212; missing him both times&#8230;</p>
<p>The story on A.K.G. is somewhat longer &amp; is explained entirely in<br />
numerous letters / communications to various Govt. officials that<br />
can be read here:</p>
<p><a href="http://360.yahoo.com/caspereraser1" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/360.yahoo.com/caspereraser1?referer=');">http://360.yahoo.com/caspereraser1</a></p>
<p>You know Sir, there is a slew of information about A.K.G. that I have not &amp; can not divulge = that&#8217;s my ace in the hole &amp; vital so<br />
that I do not put all my eggs in one basket &#8212; keeping something<br />
up my sleeve &#8212; THAT ONLY I &amp; THE ARRESTING AUTHORITIES<br />
KNOW OF &amp; ABOUT&#8230;</p>
<p>I am still trying to find contact information on Lt. Col. Stephen<br />
Abraham as I indicated to you in my recent communication&#8230;I<br />
find it hard to believe that America is so HELLBENT towards the global war on terror &#8212; why they would stoop so low to do what they did to me &#8212; when all I did was fulfill what was asked of all Americans pursuant to the press conference&#8230;</p>
<p>Knowing what I know now &#8211; at times I really truly wonder if they<br />
really wanted this cell captured or not &#8211; was the press conf. all<br />
a charade to look politically correct &#8211; were they placed here for<br />
a deliberate mission or helped in anyway by Govt. officials&#8230;</p>
<p>Then I read this chilling diabolical story:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/04/addington/index.html?source=newsletter" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/04/addington/index.html?source=newsletter&amp;referer=');">http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/04/addington/index.html?source=newsletter</a>        </p>
<p>This story only SOLIDIFIES my beliefs that I have been telling members of Congress &amp; many others for years now&#8230;</p>
<p>Well I imagine that the MILITARY COMMISSIONS&#8217; ACT was really<br />
devised from not allowing these &#8211; &#8220;INDICTED TERRORISTS&#8221; from having their day in a &#8211; FEDERAL COURT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC so<br />
that whatever it is that some of them may know about any possible Govt. involvement from where ever will never see the light of day &#8212; with the &#8220;MCA&#8221; &#8212; being ultra super-secret&#8230;</p>
<p>Then A.K.G.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Worthington</title>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/09/13/guantanamo-transcripts-ghost-prisoners-speak-after-five-and-a-half-years-and-911-hijacker-recants-his-tortured-confession/comment-page-1/#comment-5397</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After this article was published on Counterpunch, I received the following comments.

My regular correspondent Dr. P. Wilkinson wrote:

“When I was about nine or ten I started reading The Gulag Archipelago… I was reminded of what Solzhenitzsyn said he tried to do with his book – namely, give voice and testimony to so many who could never have spoken. Whatever one may think of this classic Russian reactionary – and certainly in many ways overrated just because of his anti-communism – he presented an interesting technique of telling history. 

While reading today&#039;s piece in CP I could not help but think of this early reading of The Gulag. I wonder if anyone could or would be able to write a book about the American Gulag: spanning from solitary confinement at Sing Sing, Attica, Alcatraz or the new supermax prisons, the &quot;tiger cages&quot; of Vietnam, the barracks spanning from Guatemala to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the undocumented places in the East and those in Indonesia, Philippines or wherever people have disappeared in the interest of US security?

Antoon De Baets and his network of concerned historians report regularly in what danger the archeologists are who have been trying to trace and identify the remains in mass graves in Guatemala. People trying to find out where those who disappeared under Franco [are buried] meet with those who are still terrified to say what they might know.

The work you are doing is an important part of disclosing whatever there is which might help those in the First Circle to draw others from the jaws of hell.”

***

Others took the approach that Guantánamo is actually a distraction. This is a point of view that has something to recommend it, but that, I think, fails to take into account how the US administration’s “War on Terror” policy works – or fails to work – on many levels simultaneously, some of which are in direct conflict.

Gary Novak, first: “Understanding the purpose of Gitmo allows one to align expectations more realistically and perhaps interpret the results. There is a procedure described in military training manuals which explains it; and it is based upon the anti philosophy of intimidation. I encountered it thusly: When I was in college during the 60s, there was some rioting in the streets after a football game, and some store windows were broken. Later, when a crowd formed, passers-by on the other side of the street were arrested. One of the officers explained that control is most effective when arresting the most innocent persons. Gitmo has the purpose of victimizing the most innocent persons possible and creating a public display as a method of intimidating potential enemies. It is standard operating procedure. Intimidation is the purpose, not social justice.”

And Gui Rochat: “Guantánamo is and has been a propaganda tool (much like a Potemkin village) to delude the public that there are many dangerous individuals floating around. Purchasing the inmates with dollar power is typical of US foreign policy.”

***
And finally, Eric Petersen kept it short and sweet: “Great article – look forward to your book.”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After this article was published on Counterpunch, I received the following comments.</p>
<p>My regular correspondent Dr. P. Wilkinson wrote:</p>
<p>“When I was about nine or ten I started reading The Gulag Archipelago… I was reminded of what Solzhenitzsyn said he tried to do with his book – namely, give voice and testimony to so many who could never have spoken. Whatever one may think of this classic Russian reactionary – and certainly in many ways overrated just because of his anti-communism – he presented an interesting technique of telling history. </p>
<p>While reading today&#8217;s piece in CP I could not help but think of this early reading of The Gulag. I wonder if anyone could or would be able to write a book about the American Gulag: spanning from solitary confinement at Sing Sing, Attica, Alcatraz or the new supermax prisons, the &#8220;tiger cages&#8221; of Vietnam, the barracks spanning from Guatemala to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the undocumented places in the East and those in Indonesia, Philippines or wherever people have disappeared in the interest of US security?</p>
<p>Antoon De Baets and his network of concerned historians report regularly in what danger the archeologists are who have been trying to trace and identify the remains in mass graves in Guatemala. People trying to find out where those who disappeared under Franco [are buried] meet with those who are still terrified to say what they might know.</p>
<p>The work you are doing is an important part of disclosing whatever there is which might help those in the First Circle to draw others from the jaws of hell.”</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Others took the approach that Guantánamo is actually a distraction. This is a point of view that has something to recommend it, but that, I think, fails to take into account how the US administration’s “War on Terror” policy works – or fails to work – on many levels simultaneously, some of which are in direct conflict.</p>
<p>Gary Novak, first: “Understanding the purpose of Gitmo allows one to align expectations more realistically and perhaps interpret the results. There is a procedure described in military training manuals which explains it; and it is based upon the anti philosophy of intimidation. I encountered it thusly: When I was in college during the 60s, there was some rioting in the streets after a football game, and some store windows were broken. Later, when a crowd formed, passers-by on the other side of the street were arrested. One of the officers explained that control is most effective when arresting the most innocent persons. Gitmo has the purpose of victimizing the most innocent persons possible and creating a public display as a method of intimidating potential enemies. It is standard operating procedure. Intimidation is the purpose, not social justice.”</p>
<p>And Gui Rochat: “Guantánamo is and has been a propaganda tool (much like a Potemkin village) to delude the public that there are many dangerous individuals floating around. Purchasing the inmates with dollar power is typical of US foreign policy.”</p>
<p>***<br />
And finally, Eric Petersen kept it short and sweet: “Great article – look forward to your book.”</p>
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