The Guantanamo Bay “Angels”
Drudge is reporting some of the actions by the “innocent angels” at Guantanamo Bay:
“The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.
Incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press indicate Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by “cocktails” of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.
They’ve been repeatedly grabbed, punched or assaulted by prisoners who reach through the small “bean holes” used to deliver food and blankets through cell doors, the reports say. Serious assaults requiring medical attention, however, are rare, the reports indicate.
The detainee “reached under the face mask of an IRF (Initial Reaction Force) team member’s helmet and scratched his face, attempting to gouge his eyes,” states a May 27, 2005, report on an effort to remove a recalcitrant prisoner from his cell. “
Unfortunately, I am able to add from many friends that have served at the facility that action is seldom taken against the detainees because of a fear of media reporting in the United States.
Also I am constantly amazed that the media has never used the fact that “approximately 25 of those released (from GITMO) have been recaptured or killed when they took up arms again.” I can only guess that the media/democrats hate of Bush is less than their support of al Queda detainees.
UPDATE: “Stop the ACLU” ponders:
“These are the people the ACLU are trying their best to free. Much of the attacks on guards were from the advantage given to them from having items of comfort and privelage that we would have been accused of abuse if we didn’t provide. They are provided with fans to keep cool for example. Can you imagine what kind of dangerous things the wrong person could do with a fan blade and an innovative imagination?”
I will also add that these are the same individuals that Senators McCain, Grahem, Warner and Levin want to provide the same legal protection that is afforded to American Soldiers.
— Oak Leaf