Comments on: Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”

By: WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo

WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:38 +0000

[...] as Scott Horton reported last year forHarper’s Magazine (and see my report and updates here, here [...]

By: Andy Worthington Interviewed by Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:34:38 +0000

[...] days before Obama’s failed deadline, Scott Horton would publish an extraordinary story about the supposed suicides at Guantánamo in June 2006, and Obama’s interagency Task Force would choose the day of the [...]

By: WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:57:55 +0000

[...] 16. Yasser Talal al-Zahrani (ISN 93, Saudi Arabia) Born 22 September 1984, seized November 2001 (aged 17), died in Guantánamo June 2006. A survivor of the Qala-i-Janghi massacre in northern Afghanistan, he died under mysterious circumstances on the night of 9 June 2006, with two other prisoners, as Scott Horton reported last year for Harper’s Magazine (and see my report and updates here, here and here). [...]

By: On 5th Anniversary Of Disputed Guantánamo “Suicides,” Jeff Kaye Defends Scott Horton - OpEd

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:44:44 +0000

[...] the main perimeter fence — as I recommend anyone who has not read it to do so (and also to read my own commentary on it, and my follow-up here), but I will say that, having spoken to the lead soldier responsible [...]

By: Suicide or Murder at Guantanamo? | STATESMAN SENTINEL

Suicide or Murder at Guantanamo? | STATESMAN SENTINEL — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:29:07 +0000

[...] more so in January this year when, in a compelling article in Harper’s Magazine, Scott Horton drew on eye-witness accounts by former soldiers, including Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman, to paint a vivid and genuinely disturbing [...]

By: All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “Pharmacological Waterboarding” by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:19:40 +0000

[...] Sgt. Joe Hickman, who was stationed at Guantánamo at the time of the suicides in 2006, and has presented evidence that demonstrates the three detainees could not have died by hanging themselves, noticed in the [...]

By: Guantanamo: Alle Zeichen deuten auf Ermordung eines Gefangenen « Ticker

Guantanamo: Alle Zeichen deuten auf Ermordung eines Gefangenen « Ticker — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:51:27 +0000

By: Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary « freedetainees.org

Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary « freedetainees.org — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:40:29 +0000

[...] Torture Evidence (December 2009), Afghan Nobody Faces Trial by Military Commission (January 2010), Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides” (January 2010), Two Algerian Torture Victims Are Freed from Guantánamo (January 2010), and the [...]

By: Torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer’s Lawyers Speak « freedetainees.org

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:38:25 +0000

[...] Brent Mickum told Cahalan that Shaker Aamer was, effectively, being silenced to cover up “wrongdoing,” and referred to the Harper’s article, which, as Cahalan put it, said that “US government officials may have conspired to conceal evidence three Guantánamo detainees could have been murdered during interrogation,” by being suffocated. Cahalan also noted that the Harper’s article indicated that this “may explain why the US is reluctant to release Mr. Aamer, who has claimed he was part-suffocated while being tortured the same evening,” an explanation that I have also proposed. [...]

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

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:05:47 +0000

[...] were killed, and that the suicide story was manufactured as a cover-up (which I also wrote about here); and my preliminary analysis of the first ever publicly available list of prisoners held in the US [...]