Can Wikileaks Expose Life In Guantanamo? Insider News
WHAT’ S life like in Guantanamo? Can Wikileaks dish the dirt on life in the prison camp? The reporters can’t. Carl Rosenberg explains:
Not just because you sleep in tent city where the ventilators and generators sound like you’re inside a jet engine. Nearly everyone else expected in court gets housing elsewhere. The lawyers have trailers. The translators get townhouses and the judge and juries get guest quarters. The reporters get tents because if you protest, guess what they say: Don’t come.
In court:
Guantanamo is a place where you get assigned seats in court, and if you’re me you usually get one of the two or three seats that can’t see the witness stand. Even if the media gallery is mostly empty.
Undated handout photo of Shafiq Rasul, of Tipton, West Midlands. The brother of a British man being held by US authorities in Cuba insisted that is not an al Qaida fighter. Habib Rasul claimed his twenty four year old brother, Shafiq, may have been kidnapped. *... before being used as a human shield during the conflict in Afghanistan. Shafiq, his friend Asif Iqbal, 20, and a third Briton - Feroz Abbasi, 22, from Croydon, south London - are all being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. 28/1/02: The brother of a British man being held by US authorities in Cuba insisted that is not an al Qaida fighter. Habib Rasul claimed his twenty four year old brother, Shafiq, may have been kidnapped before being used as a human shield during the conflict in Afghanistan. Shafiq, his friend Asif Iqbal, 20, and a third Briton - Feroz Abbasi, 22, from Croydon, south London - are all being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. *19/02/04: Shafiq Rasul, one of the five British prsioners who it was announced are to be released from Guantanamo Bay. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that they would be returned to the UK "in the next few weeks."1528899
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