Comments on: Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed: Six “High-Value” Guantánamo Prisoners Held, Plus “Ghost Prisoner” Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

By: UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?” by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:50:28 +0000

[...] Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean (a British territory leased to the US) was used in 2005-06 to hold Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, a joint Syrian-Spanish [...]

By: An Interview With Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Part One) by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:13 +0000

[...] I recently approached Col. Wilkerson to ask if he would discuss some of these issues in greater detail, and was delighted when he agreed to be interviewed, as he provided some startling new insights into the conduct of the “War on Terror’; specifically, in this first part, he explained how the State Department had wondered whether the little-reported Dasht-i-Leili container massacre had involved war crimes, how the Bush administration had considered using the Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia (leased from the UK) instead of Guantánamo, and how Col. Wilkerson himself believed that some prisoners had been held on Diego Garcia. [...]

By: Revealed: Identity Of Guantánamo Torture Victim Rendered Through Diego Garcia by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:35:32 +0000

[...] This question has been raised since July 2002, when TIME, “quoting a source familiar with the operation,” reported that the alleged senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah had been transferred to a prison on Diego Garcia from a US naval ship, and has been reinforced in the years since by other reports, in the US and Spanish media, claiming that other “high-value detainees” — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the Bali bombing suspect Hambali and two of his alleged associates, and Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, the only one of the six who was not eventually transferred to Guantánamo — were also held on the island, as I reported in a detailed article last summer. [...]

By: Me

Me — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:47:10 +0000

The disclosure of information pertaining to military actions that are meant to be kept in secret, whether they actualyl happened or not, is a disgrace and should be criminalized. While the wereabouts of terrorists is something that most civlians think should be transparent to all, I think national security is more important than any given individual’s “need to know”. They are not the ones fighting this fight, they are the ones at home being armchair warriors showing all of this “heart felt concern” about what is going on outside of the borders of their yard. If you want to know, then you should haev joined the military and worked in Intel or joined the CIA. Otherwise, you simply do not need to know! While the States and other countries around the world must do what they must do to keep the world safe, under no circumstances should information be leaked that compromises what we must do in order to keep said safety in place. Anyone disclosing information like this should have any pension they have earned stripped and they should be in carcerated for a term of no less than 70 years.

By: freedetainees.org » Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:29:29 +0000

[...] on Terror,” providing a rare insight into the bleak world of “extraordinary rendition,” secret prisons and outsourced torture that Barack Obama must also tackle if he is to have any hope of fulfilling [...]

By: Maria Luis Demée

Maria Luis Demée — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:53:41 +0000

On July 20th 2008 the newspaper “EL PAÍS” published a 4-page article under the title “17 Guantánamos flotantes” (translated – “17 floating Guantanamos”); the article refers to these as 17 US-ships, being currently used as “floating”prisons” in the Indic Ocean, Diego Garcia Island and African Coast zones. The article presents photos of 6 of the referred ships. The ships mentioned in this article are:
USS BATAAN
USS PELELIU
USS ASHLAND
USS STOCKHAM

USNS WATSON
USNS SISTER
USNS CHARLTON
USNS POMEROY
USNS RED CLOUD
USNS SODERMAN
USNS DAHL

MV PVT FRANKLIN J. PHILLIPS
MV CPL LOUIS J. HAUGE JR.
MVPFC WILLIAM B. BAUGHT
MVPFC JAMES ANDERSON
MV 1ST LT ALEX BONNYMAN