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.
Dr David Nicholl,outside the American Consulate in Belfast. He is facing the challenge of a lifetime as he gears up to run the London Marathon to raise awareness of at least 5 British detainees still being held by the US authorities without charge or trial in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. As part of his preparations for the marathon he will be running, dressed in infamous Guantanamo Bay style orange jump suit and chains to the US Consulate in Belfast to hand in a letter of protest to American representatives. Dr Nicholl is a consultant neurologist who works at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and City Hospital in Birmingham. Former Beirut hostage Terry Waite and released Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg have backed his marathon bid and he has already raised over £2,000.2311583
Posted: 5th, August 2010 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
