Rumsfeld says no U.N. access to Guantanamo inmates - Tortured too badly

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6207644&cKey=1130890834000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Spurning a request by U.N. human rights investigators, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday the United States will not allow them to meet with detainees at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects.

Rumsfeld also told a Pentagon news conference that prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were staging a hunger strike that began in early August as a successful ploy to attract media attention.

The three U.N. investigators, including one who focuses on torture, said on Monday they would turn down an invitation extended by the Pentagon on Friday to visit Guantanamo unless they were permitted to interview the detainees. The invitation came nearly four years after the visits were first requested.

Rumsfeld said the U.S. government will not change its policy of giving such access to detainees only to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a neutral body that keeps its findings confidential.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I guess we need to plant a mole in the Red Cross

who will speak out as to what is happening. If it is as bad as I fear, I don't see how anyone in good conscience could keep it a secret.

[Disturbed]

2. The world doesn't need to know about the abuse and..

torture that has and still is being perpetrated upon "detainees" that haven't even been charged with any crimes.

[sproutster]

3. A hunger strike...

Isn't that conviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeenent.

Fuckwads

[TomInTib]

4. "so someone decides to lose a little weight by not eating...

for a few days". I swear I heard him say that. He started to say something and then muttered something about "now I don't know how to put this...." and said that.

[Jacobin]

5. "goodness gracious, no, we wouldn't hurt them much"

this fucker needs to be in the Hague in chains undergoing his war crimes trial.

[izzie]

6. We will never live this one down

It will stick to Bush in the history books for ever.