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To: Doug R who wrote (48152)	5/26/2005 9:09:12 AM
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS GUANTANAMO BAY "THE GULAG OF OUR TIME" jim geraghty reporting TKS Big banner headline on the Washington Post right now: "Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse in FBI Report." Apparently the Powerline guys have already gotten an e-mails declaring that Newsweek was right, and the blogs' skepticism was wrong. But here's what the story says: <<< Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI documents released yesterday. The summaries of FBI interviews, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of an ongoing lawsuit, include a dozen allegations that the Koran was kicked, thrown to the floor or withheld as punishment. One prisoner said in August 2002 that guards had "flushed a Koran in the toilet" and had beaten some detainees. But the Pentagon said yesterday that the same prisoner, who is still in custody, was reinterviewed on May 14 and "did not corroborate" his earlier claim about the Koran. "We still have found no credible allegations that a Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a statement last night. >>> So we have allegations from captured al-Qaeda, and denials from Pentagon officials. Amnesty International released a report calling Guantanamo Bay "the gulag of our time" and labeling the United States "a leading purveyor and practitioner" of torture and mistreatment of prisoners. Gulags, as you will remember, imprisoned millions, forced them into harsh labor in the farthest and coldest remotes of Siberia, and killed tens of thousands if not more. This estimate puts the total documentable deaths in the corrective-labour system from 1934 to 1953 at 1,054,000. en.wikipedia.org In a brutal climate far from the tropical breezes of Cuba, gulag prisoners were almost never adequately clothed, fed, or given medical treatment. But keep in mind, all of this is comparable to Gitmo, because some U.S. guards may have kicked a Koran. nationalreview.com powerlineblog.com washingtonpost.com