Despite often hysterical rhetoric to the contrary from America’s Islamofascist enemies, human rights organizations, and Democratic senators, the policy for handling of the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo has always been “safe, humane treatment consistent with force protection.” In other words, the detainees, while definitely not accorded Geneva Convention rights, were in fact given treatment that often exceeded that agreed to under that convention. They were treated in a manner that made their safety and the safety of the guards top priority.
For the past several years there were moves afoot to give more privileges to those detainees who demonstrated what was defined by the Joint Task Force command as “compliant behavior.” What this meant was not, as I learned to my surprise during my first trips, contingent on how much information of intelligence value a detainee shared with his captors, but simply how he obeyed the instructions of the guards. In other words, many of the detainees identified as “the worst of the worst” fit the definition of compliant behavior. They may not have told the interrogators squat but they did what the guards said and hence were given more latitude.
Two of the Camp Delta facilities, Camps I and IV, were in fact reserved for compliant detainees. These detainees received the maximum in the way of comfort items (CI in the always-eager-to-abbreviate tradition of the military) and the most latitude in the way of communal recreational privileges. In Camp IV, for example, the detainees slept in 10-man bays and were allowed to spend most of the day in two-bay, 20-man groups. During this communal time it has been learned they ate together, prayed together, and plotted to kill Americans together.
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Contrast this with the news out of the UK where another bleeding heart is seeking to free one of these monsters.
A British legislator has called for British Prime Minister
Tony Blair to intervene with President Bush to try to secure the release of a long-time British resident held at Guantanamo Bay.
Opposition Liberal Democrat member of parliament Edward Davey said late on Monday that Bisher al-Rawi's lawyers believed his mental health was deteriorating fast after four years in the U.S. detention camp for terrorism suspects.
Davey said al-Rawi -- an Iraqi citizen who lived in Britain for many years -- knew radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada but said he believed al-Rawi was innocent of any crime.
Seems like it's such a fun place.
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