abuses at Guantanamo, uncovered
Monday, April 25, 2011
Do Polish Women Have Big Breasts?
According WikiLeaks, the purpose of the prison was "exploiting" information from prisoners despite the innocence of many of them. Madrid, April 25 .- 759 WikiLeaks today released secret Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. government used the Guantanamo prison illegally to obtain information from their prisoners, many of them clearly innocent, according to English newspaper El País.
According to official documents leaked by Wikileaks, in the prison of Guantanamo, the United States "created a police system unsecured criminal who cared only two questions: how much information is obtained from prisoners, although they were innocent, and if they could be dangerous in the future, "the paper said in its website.
El País notes that it has been access along with other international media, through Wikileaks, "the secret military records of 759 of the 779 prisoners who have been through the prison, of which about 170 are still detained."
The newspaper said the documents reveal that the main purpose of the prison was "exploiting" all information of prisoners despite the acknowledged innocence of many of them.
60% was taken to the military base without being a threat, "likely", says the English newspaper in its online edition.
El Pais notes that "elders with dementia, young, serious psychiatric patients and school teachers or farmers with no connection to jihad were taken to jail and mixed with real terrorists like those responsible for the 11-S."
reports are dated between 2002 and 2009 and they reveal the U.S. tracking system to assess inmates, so as to determine whether the inmate should be free, to be moved to another country or remain in jail created by former President George W. Bush in 2002 on the island of Cuba.
This system provides three levels of risk: the highest, when the person "probably" is "a threat to U.S. interests and allies", the middle on that "maybe" I suppose, and the lowest one in displayed the prisoners who have been eight or nine years at Guantanamo and whose risk is "unlikely" to national security.
"America found that 83 prisoners posed no risk to national security, and 77 others recognized that it is 'unlikely' to be a threat to the country or its allies," the English newspaper.
About those "maybe" could pose a danger to national security, the documents reveal that "the U.S. has not seriously believed in the guilt or the threat of almost 60 percent of its prisoners."
In this sense, the paper added that the main objective of the jail was "exploiting" all information that the detainees could offer even knowing that many of them were innocent.
and offers information on this by stating that only seven inmates have been tried and convicted so far, of the 779 who have passed through Guantanamo.
"Prison works as a huge police station without limit of stay and the duration of the punishment that is proportionate to the alleged act committed," said El Pais.
Although only 22 percent of the prisoners, the report said, have provided information to the intelligence services against 78 per cent, the value of information was medium or low, according to military themselves have recognized the documents published by WikiLeaks.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment