Comments on: Guantánamo suicides: so who’s telling the truth?

By: Guantánamo Suicide Report:Truth or Travesty? « HEART TALKS

Guantánamo Suicide Report:Truth or Travesty? « HEART TALKS — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:55:57 +0000

[...] ‘vision,’ in which three of them had to die for the rest to be freed.” As I also reported in a previous article, Aamer also seemed to endorse the view that the men had committed suicide, [...]

By: Linda G. Richard

Linda G. Richard — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:03:21 +0000

Excellent piece! Thank you Andy, for bringing this issue to everyone’s attention. And thanks for the wonderful book! I use it very very often researching detainees.

By: Abdulghappar’s Letter From Guantánamo « Shia Islam

Abdulghappar’s Letter From Guantánamo « Shia Islam — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:34:03 +0000

[...] and external organs and our arms and legs. Or is it necessary for a few Turkistanis to die, as happened in the past here in this jail, in order to gain others’ attention and their concern towards our matter? [...]

By: GUANTANAMO CONCENTRATION CAMP: CHINESE BROTHER WRITES TO US « A Soldier’s Heart

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:11:26 +0000

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:16:53 +0000

After I replied to Ronald Dion, he sent another comment: “Of course, you would be out of the US. Not many in the US have the courage or commitment to write as you do. I’ve taken a brief look at your website and will peruse it as I muster energy and stamina. It is heavy stuff that tries me. Suffering as I do from the effects of cumulative stress and PTSD I have to measure my exposure carefully. Yet, I am determined to keep as well informed as possible. I do not know to what end (if any) this may serve but am convinced that one can do nothing if one operates in ignorance. Thank you once again for your efforts and the skills you have put much energy into developing.”

And this just in from Tom Caulder: “I just now read ‘The Guantánamo Suicides: Who is Telling the Truth?’ Great writing but a topic that Americans do not care about because they have no control over anything the US does. The US is like an earthquake — uncontrolled. Voting lends the US legitimacy. So a vote for war under Republicans is different from a war under Democrats? That’s why I am trying to get some interest in a campaign to not vote. The US will slowly disappear. Not voting is a concept everyone can get their minds around. The idea will either take off or not. Your help would be appreciated. Talk it up.”

By: True Blue Liberal » Guantánamo Suicides: So Who’s Telling The Truth?

True Blue Liberal » Guantánamo Suicides: So Who’s Telling The Truth? — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:47:46 +0000

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By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:28:58 +0000

After this article was published on Counterpunch, I received the following comments:

John Walsh, from Massachusetts, wrote to say, “Your Counterpunch piece on the Guantánamo suicides today was superb. Keep up the good work.”

Ronald Dion wrote from San Diego: “Just read your recent, disturbing piece: ‘The Guantánamo Suicides: Who is Telling the Truth?’” He added, regarding my book The Guantánamo Files, “There are many books recently published and, I am sure, forthcoming, one hardly knows where to start in studying the atrocity known as the Iraq War. Not having a great deal of money and very limited ability to absorb vast quantities of information I usually restrict my readings to shorter works. Nevertheless, I want to compliment your efforts to keep us informed. The MSM surely will not do it if people like you do not.”

And finally, Joe Fougerousse wrote from Illinois to say, “Oh yes you do know the truth of the matter! Those men were tortured and murdered by their American captors. One doesn’t need investigations and reports to know the obvious. The fact that they died in custody is evidence enough.”