Comments on: The Guantánamo Files: Additional Chapters Online – Seized in Pakistan (Part One) http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/01/28/the-guantanamo-files-additional-chapters-online-seized-in-pakistan-part-one/ Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker and Guantanamo expert Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frances Madeson http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/01/28/the-guantanamo-files-additional-chapters-online-seized-in-pakistan-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-31764 Frances Madeson Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:29:01 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=1124#comment-31764 Phenomenal work and discipline on your part to create what will certainly be an enduring historical record. And you made it look so effortless as it unfolded. A remarkable accomplishment, though I imagine a bittersweet one, in that it should never have been required. I'm really stuck thinking about the use of bounties as a tool in the War on Terror, especially as economic conditions deteriorate worldwide. $5,000 is a whole lot of money and an obvious temptation. And as the use of bounties is concomitant with torture and other abuses in the Guantanamo story, I'm wondering if we shouldn't re-examine the morality and tactical legitimacy of their continued use. On the evidence, they seem to have created more terror than they thwarted. Phenomenal work and discipline on your part to create what will certainly be an enduring historical record. And you made it look so effortless as it unfolded. A remarkable accomplishment, though I imagine a bittersweet one, in that it should never have been required.

I’m really stuck thinking about the use of bounties as a tool in the War on Terror, especially as economic conditions deteriorate worldwide. $5,000 is a whole lot of money and an obvious temptation. And as the use of bounties is concomitant with torture and other abuses in the Guantanamo story, I’m wondering if we shouldn’t re-examine the morality and tactical legitimacy of their continued use. On the evidence, they seem to have created more terror than they thwarted.

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