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01.06.02, 07:57
CHCESZ MIEC DARMOWE WAKACJE NA KUBIE NA KOSZT AMERYKANSKIEGO PODATNIKA? ZAPISZ
SIE DO ALKAIDY I PODDAJ SIE NATYCHMIAST ZONIERZOM USA. POD GROZBA DASOW AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL, PENTAGON PRZESCIGA SIE W UMILANIU ZYCIA BANDYTOM PRZECZYMYWANYM
W OBZIE W GUANTANAMO BAY. OTO REPORTAZ WASHINGTON TIMES:
EDITORIAL • June 1, 2002
From Camp X-Ray to Eggshell City
After six weeks at Guantanamo Bay, the man couldn't take it anymore. So he
talked. Told the Times of London everything he knew about what Camp X-Ray has
come to.
What he described isn't pretty — not, that is, if winning the war on
terrorism is your idea of a good cause. According to a former interpreter named
William Tierney, the newspaper reports, the interrogation center at Guantanamo
Bay has become "a politically correct regime that puts prisoners' complaints
ahead of intelligence gathering." Washington, it seems, is less afraid of al
Qaeda and the next attack than the human-rights lobby and the next report.
So goodbye Gitmo, hello Eggshell City — the ultra-sensitive, politically
correct (dare we say Clintonesque?) center for suspected terrorists, where only
the guards have to suffer in silence, and a Marine can get himself transferred
for being too tough. So writes the Times in a revealing account based on the
experiences of Mr. Tierney, a Gulf War veteran and Arabic speaker who spent six
weeks interpreting at the camp and who, as the newspaper notes, "decided to
speak out after losing his job in a long-running dispute with the Pentagon."
Remember the shackles, the razor wire and the global-baloo over the
inhumanity of it all? "Suspected terrorists are allowed to treat their captors
with derision," the newspaper reports, "lying, chanting the Koran in unison,
mocking and threatening guards and throwing water at them. Americans are under
orders not to react roughly." After these al Qaeda training-camp alumni groused
about their leg irons, stretcher-like trolleys were provided to run them back
and forth between interrogations — at least until a media report speculated
that prisoners were being wheeled because they had suffered beatings. Now, the
detainees roll around the Cuban camp on golf carts.
Meanwhile, it turns out the prisoners just loved those wire cages — the
ones that caused such a ruckus — because they could easily communicate with one
another from them and keep an eye on who was being interrogated. (They have
since been moved into Camp Delta, a new indoor prison.) And remember the fuss
over K-rations? "Numerous people there said they hadn't eaten this well in
years," Mr. Tierney told the newspaper. As a visiting general reportedly put it
to a group of these fighters suspected of holding the key to future
attacks, "We don't want anyone to say we're mistreating you."
No. But "anyone" does say so just the same. Just this week, Amnesty
International castigated the United States over the Guantanamo detainees. If
Mr. Tierney's experience is typical, it's tough to see man's inhumanity to man
on display at Eggshell City. "Prisoners were being treated so carefully, for
fear of accusations of torture, that no serious pressure was being put on them
to cooperate," the newspaper reports. Mr. Tierney says he doesn't believe in
resorting to torture. "But we can't have it both ways," he explains. "We can't
obtain the information we need without offending anyone." But how to do it when
self-defense seems to mean never being offensive?
