Comments on: Guantánamo’s Hidden History: Shocking Statistics of Starvation

By: Andy Worthington Discusses Murders at Guantánamo and Bagram’s “Ghost Prisoners” on Antiwar Radio « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:06:20 +0000

[...] is that the men had clearly irritated the authorities to an extraordinary degree. All three were long-term hunger strikers, who, in at least two cases, had been force-fed until their deaths, and were amongst the few [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:34:35 +0000

America is a great country that was founded on the truths of God’s word ( that would be The Holy Bible). They feed us lies the media and the goverment people we are not animals. Wake up look into this stuff ask the Lord for wisdom in finding the truth. Don’t be a follow the leader.Just because the news says it does not make it a fact. This junk on Guantanamo is lies. These people are murders they are out to destory our country and all that live in it. Wake up America!!!!!!!! And God help us!
The guy who wrote this not an American. You need to “Sir mind your own affairs there in your country”.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00:43 +0000

amen to that Lorraine

By: Lorraine.

Lorraine. — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:07:45 +0000

Okay. Let me get this straight,
Guantanamo is a Jail.
For Terrorists and mass murderers.
And you want it closed down and all of them to be running free in the world again?
So they can blow you up?
So they can drop a nuke in America?
So we can have more incidents like 9/11?
It’s not impossible.

This article is such total bull.
You’re making the army out to be this big bad organization that is being mean to the poor little terrorists.
I’m sorry, if they want to go on Hunger Strikes and starve themselves, it’s their own fault. Why is it so bad that the military was force feeding them, trying to SAVE them?? Are you too DENSE to realize that? The military was trying to keep them ALIVE. Despite however many innocent civillians these people have severely hurt and even killed…

It is so funny how the Media works.
When Obama raises taxes, or messes something up, they talk about how he’s being wonderful and saving all these poor little self-abusing and suicidal terrorists instead.

You disgust me.

By: The Lies Told About The Saudi Hunger Striker Released From Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:16:37 +0000

[...] or al-Noofayee, and, as I explained in an article three months ago, he was also Guantánamo’s longest-term hunger striker, having been without solid food — and subjected to painful force-feeding twice a day — since [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:55:34 +0000

bogi666,
Thanks for the comment, which highlights an important contrast between your “humane” experiences and the supposedly “humane” treatment of the prisoners in Guantanamo.

By: bogi666

bogi666 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:01:33 +0000

Starvation and forced feeding at GITMO. The feeding is done by forcing a tube down the throat, procedure I’ve had to check my stomach and a common procedure done by doctors as an outpatient procedure. There are nurses, an anesthesiologist and a doctor. The patient is also given a pain killer. This is prior to the insertion of the probe which includes a camera. The patient doesn’t even know until they wake up what happened. This makes the procedure easier for the medical staff as well as the patient, prisoner in GITMO. Somehow I don’t think that the military in GITMO adheres to these same medical practices that if a doctor didn’t follow would be subject to malpractice!

By: al ka ee da

al ka ee da — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:49:20 +0000

Start deporting the Zionists or anyone who show support for Israel to Israel.

By: Nicolae

Nicolae — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:25:33 +0000

In the jewish Talmud all other people,beside jews,are consider ANIMAL(GOY).Those converted KHAZARS THAT ADOPTED JUDAISM IN THE BLACK SEE KINGDOM OF KHAZARIA IN 740 CLAIM TO BE THE PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE,WHAT A JOKE.REVELATION 2:9,,3:9 TELLS US THAT THE JEWS ARE THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN(CHILDREN OF DEVIL).that is why america torture,because the jews are in control,they do this to people of Palestine every day.America will be destroy soon,the jewish toilet paper dollar is finish.By 2013 is finish,you have to tank the PRIVATE JEWISH FEDERAL RESERVE BANK,THAT PRINT THE WORTLESS DOLLAR WITH INTERE

By: RWL

RWL — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:44:52 +0000

Wait…

Ensuring that a detainee does not commit suicide via starvation is now “torture”?

Further, your failure to review detainees initial weights versus their lowest recorded weight speaks to a fundamental failure to accurately review the data. Any conclusions drawn from your review are invalidated not only by your failure to take into account basic data and analytical considerations such a intake weight, but also your failure to take into consideration things such as height versus weight proportionality (localized to the detainee’s country of origin/circumstance) and illnesses upon intake. Simply stating that the “average man weighs 150 to 200 pounds” is a illegitimate and incredibly transparent attempt to set a theme partial to your preconceived notions of the conditions in Guantanamo.

Shame on you for your biased, unscientific and ill-founded “article”.