War on Terror Watch: Guantanamo Guard Brandon Neely Interview on MSNBC

Yesterday we posted the harrowing testimony of Specialist Brandon Neely about the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility. Last night Neely was interviewed by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRT-Im6O_Uw[/youtube]

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[Dave]

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/05/13/prisoner-abuse-how-different-are-us-prisons

Guantanamo is typical of US prison culture. Read the article. Abu Ghraib is mentioned and the abuses there don't surprise staff in US prisons. Prisoners are beaten, raped and even shot. Children are also forced into performing sexual acts on adult prison staff.

FROM THE ARTICLE -- "The Department of Justice’s Inspector General recently reported on the abuse Muslim men picked up after September 11 endured while detained at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. For example, officers slammed unresisting, shackled inmates into walls and mocked them during body-cavity searches. A lawsuit by one of the detainees alleges that one of the officers maliciously pushed a pencil into his anus."

"When Florida inmate Frank Valdez died in 1999, every rib in his body was broken, his corpse bore the imprint of boot marks, and his testicles were badly swollen; guards admitted having struggled with him, but denied they had used excessive force. They claimed most of his injuries had been “self-inflicted.”