Murder Is Not Suicide
Posted: 21 January 2010 Filed under: Foreign policy, International Situations, Military, News, War | Tags: CIA, Deaths, Gitmo, Terrorists, Torture, US Troops 7 Comments »Do you remember the three Gitmo detainees that commited suicide on the same day in 2006? NO? Then let us review…….
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the CIA set up several so-called ”black” sites around the world, where harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects took place.
The three Guantanamo detainees who died on the night of June 9-10, 2006, were Salah Ahmed al-Salami, 37, of Yemen; Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, 30, of Saudi Arabia; and Yasser Talal al-Zahrani, 22, of Saudi Arabia.
Everyone bought the excuse of their deaths as routine for crazed terrorists….but it seems there is more to this story than we have heard….now thanx to Harper’s magazine the truth is coming out…..
THREE Guantanamo Bay detainees whose deaths were ruled as suicide in 2006 were apparently transported from their cells to a secret site hours before they died, according to an article in Harper’s magazine.
The published account raises questions about whether the three detainees died by hanging themselves in their cells and suggests the US Government is covering up details of what precisely happened in the hours before the deaths.
Harper’s reports that the deaths of the three detainees, or the events that led directly to their deaths, most likely occurred at a previously undisclosed facility more than a kilometre from the main Guantanamo Bay prison complex.
Harper’s based much of its account on interviews with several prison guards who said they knew of the existence of the ”black” site and that they saw three detainees removed from Camp Delta several hours before the deaths were reported and they were in a white van proceeding towards the secret site.
As usual the soldiers involved were order not to divulge anything about this situation and the cover up began and those who murdered these people are walking the streets and may be shopping at your local Mall.
It’s a fair question and I suppose it should be investigated… and yet… and yet I find it difficult to care a damn about how any TERRORIST (or terrorist sympathiser) died or what was done to them… assholes all!
The one thing that bothers me about this and ALL police, Secret Service, CIA, Military Police and all the rest is: I simply don’t trust any representative of the authorities to…
a) Tell the truth about ANYTHING,
b) Carry a sufficient number of brain cells with them to have a clue as to whether they ae dealing with a truly guilty person or not.
c) Give a shit about “minor” details like that anyway!
As a recipient of torure…I am opposed to its use …EVER!
Well, I can understand that and I agree – in my view it’s totally pointless anyway because a person will generally say almost anything under torture, but it proves nothing.
That said, if someone is ABSOLUTELY CERTAINLY involved in terrorism and bearing in mind that, when it suits them, they call themselves soldiers, I kind of feel it’s appropriate to just shoot them and save the expense of trials and all that crap where highly paid lawyers use trickery to gain acquittal?
My real difficulty is that I have equal distrust of the criminal justice system throughout most modern democracies as well as the ability of people like the CIA to identify genuine threats or even the guilty after the event.
There are times that that I will agree with you…but then I am hit by a rock like this suicide thing…..I think the cover up is what pissed me off the most…..
Yes. I can see that and I agree entirely. The trouble I have with that is that I don’t trust ANY of them, so what’s the point in crooks investigating crooks?
IF the people were guilty (and it is a HUGE “if”) then I’m sorry, much as I DO agree with you in one way (and I would have agreed wholeheartedly and without reservation twenty years ago) these days I think “Oh, screw ‘em! If they attack us and our way of life, what do they ex[pect?”
Sorry, I’ve got steadily angrier over the years – well, less tolerant of assholes at least and I find it hard to waste sympathy on them any longer.
No prob…I understand the frustration completely…I myself suffer from it but on other issues…like the economy and direction of politics….
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