Guantanamo inmates to be released and given welfare

[Birka]

http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=CNG.18e9e5692442aa61d7510553b5ffc14e. e01&show_article=1

Well why not give them welfare, they will vote for Ombongo next election.

[Sol Invictus]

I wonder how many of these 'inmates' have received CIA funding and protection to carry out future 'terror' attacks. I can see it now. If that kind of scenario plays out, you can just imagine the dumbed-out population just screaming for them to re-open Guantanamo and bring in more camps to house suspected 'terrorists'.

[Rudy]

They are still being beaten until the final days at Gitmo. I wonder how much the IRF squads differ from those at regular US prisons.

Conditions of Confinement at Guantánamo: Still In Violation of the Law," which found that abuses continued. In fact, one Guantanamo lawyer, Ahmed Ghappour, said that his clients were reporting "a ramping up in abuse" since Obama was elected, including "beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-force feeding detainees who are on hunger strike," according to Reuters.
http://original.antiwar.com/scahill/2009/05/16/obama-thug-squad-brutalizing-prisoners-at-gitmo/

[SwordoftheVistula]

Force feeding people on hunger strikes (usually through IV) is standard procedure in US prisons, also they try to remove anything which might be used to commit suicide. This differs from European prisons, where they are allowed clocks and appliances with electric cords, and all sorts of other things which could potentially be used to commit suicide (as reported by David Irving).

Spraying pepper spray into closed cells is also standard procedure now. It's considered safer and more humane than the previous method of 'extracting' uncooperative prisoners, which was to have one guy hold a riot shield and then a line of people behind him to shove him into the cell, with the goal being to generate enough force and momentum to knock the prisoner back and down, allowing the guards to pile on him and handcuff him. Now, with spraying the pepper spray into the closed cell, usually the prisoner just gives up and comes out and lies down on the floor to be handcuffed. Reading the article, it seems that the alleged 'torture' is simply cases of violent or otherwise unruly prisoners being subdued. If you don't subdue the violent and unruly prisoners, then you have the prisoners effectively running the prison, and it's not safe for the guards, and the situation gets totally out of control as happens in many prisons in latin America.

As for the prisoners, they should be either returned to their home country if we can be assured that they won't be allowed to return to terrorist activity (which some former Gitmo prisoners have done) or else liquidated.

[Rudy]

There was not too much training given according to the Specialist. Many of the accounts sound like simple beat downs.

On December 4, 2008, Specialist Brandon Neely approached CSHRA with testimony he wished to contribute to the Guantánamo Testimonials Project. He believed that insufficient attention had been paid to "the hell that went on at Camp X-Ray.
...But innocent, guilty, black, white, Muslim, or Jew, no matter what you are there is no excuse to treat people in the manner that I and other people did. It's wrong and just downright criminal, and it goes against everything that the United States of America stands for."
http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/testimonies-of-military-guards/testimony-of-brandon-neely