Guantanamo Kafka hell
alertnet: Only about one-fourth of the prisoners held at the Guantanamo naval base are interrogated regularly because there are not enough translators and interrogators to question them all, the U.S. admiral in charge of the detention operation said on Thursday.
Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who at the end of March took command of the military task force that runs the camp, said the 460 captives at Guantanamo in Cuba were dangerous men who still provide useful information about al Qaeda tactics, financing and safe houses.
But only those he described as senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders were routinely questioned by U.S. interrogators, he said.
"It's about around 25 percent of the population that we are actively interrogating," Harris told visiting journalists.
"If we had unlimited interrogators and translators then we could interrogate more. But we have limited resources so we have to focus that the best way we can, so we go after those detainees that have the largest intelligence value."
The rest are not ignored completely, he said. But asked if some prisoners might have gone years without being questioned, he replied, "I would think there are, but I just don't know." Read more
db: Rewind Harry - those 460 illegally detained prisoners - the dangerous men - "still provide useful information about al Qaeda tactics, financing and safe houses." - but - you only 'interrorgate' 25% of them 'actively' and some, you fucking 'think' , probably haven't been spoken to 'for years'.
kafkaesque - No trial, no charge, no questioning, no freedom.
Commenting on the attempted suicide this week of four Gitmo victims Commander Robert Durand said "At this point, I have no idea of motive, no idea of any co-ordination and no idea of any intended message."
I have a hunch - Motive: DEATH Message: 'We are better off DEAD'
Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who at the end of March took command of the military task force that runs the camp, said the 460 captives at Guantanamo in Cuba were dangerous men who still provide useful information about al Qaeda tactics, financing and safe houses.
But only those he described as senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders were routinely questioned by U.S. interrogators, he said.
"It's about around 25 percent of the population that we are actively interrogating," Harris told visiting journalists.
"If we had unlimited interrogators and translators then we could interrogate more. But we have limited resources so we have to focus that the best way we can, so we go after those detainees that have the largest intelligence value."
The rest are not ignored completely, he said. But asked if some prisoners might have gone years without being questioned, he replied, "I would think there are, but I just don't know." Read more
db: Rewind Harry - those 460 illegally detained prisoners - the dangerous men - "still provide useful information about al Qaeda tactics, financing and safe houses." - but - you only 'interrorgate' 25% of them 'actively' and some, you fucking 'think' , probably haven't been spoken to 'for years'.
kafkaesque - No trial, no charge, no questioning, no freedom.
Commenting on the attempted suicide this week of four Gitmo victims Commander Robert Durand said "At this point, I have no idea of motive, no idea of any co-ordination and no idea of any intended message."
I have a hunch - Motive: DEATH Message: 'We are better off DEAD'
posted by exoplanet at 9:45 PM
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