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Inside Guantánamo Bay

Photographer Ziv Koren got a rare chance to photograph and video the U.S. detention facility in Cuba. What he found.

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Jun 5, 2008 | Updated: 5:40  p.m. ET Jun 5, 2008

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  • Posted By: mouselion @ 06/09/2008 7:01:30 AM

    Who sets the fine for running over the iguanas, the military?

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 06/05/2008 8:19:34 PM

    According to the reliable and independent sources,Guantanamo Bay has become a nightmare for those has been arrested from Afghanistan and Iraq as well as different places from the world under the allegations of terrorism.



    Many of them arrested are not facing trial but going through untolrable circumstances.
    Many of them innocent but is kept under custody on mere doubt .No evidence ,documentry evidence or circumstantial evidence suport their crime. Due to lack of evidence they are laying in the jail like animals without trial.No one know that how much time they will remained there perhaps untimely death.


    As for as prosecution side is concerned they care nothing.There is no law relating to trial but policy which can tighten their illegle confinement.

    New government is expected in the states so we can have some expectations in regard to the justice.
    No justice has been seen in war crime but justice is indispensable for them.

    • Posted By: joe_mama @ 06/08/2008 2:36:37 PM

      no disrespect ahmed, but the change in governments won't change anything.

      For the record, I am far more concerned about mistaken identities and misinformation (I know it's hard to believe, but a terrorist may actually lie about his/her associations to throw investigators off) than I am about their "rights" as detainees. I do not support torture (there's no proof that it works) but I do not feel as though these individuals should be given the same rights as prisoners of war.

      In other words, I'm stuck about what to do with these individuals....and I'm actually a moderate! There are far stronger feelings in both liberal and conservative circles, and any mention of rights is answered with "9/11", "Khalid Shiek Mohammed" and "soft on terror". No American politician of any standing will talk about these individuals, so they are likely to continue to suffer indefinately.

      And, no, I'm not proud of it.

    • Posted By: Mimebinha @ 06/06/2008 7:10:26 AM

      It is interesting how we forget that the detainees at Guantanamo are just that - detainees; not criminals.
      They were detained for taking up arms against the US or coalition allies and by Common Article III of the Geneva Conventions are unpriviliged beligerents and by Geneva (international law) the US has the right to detain them until the end of hostilities. It is not about guilt or innocence; it is the capability and intent to do harm to the US that keeps the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

      Several hundred of detainees have been returned to their home countries, and by Department of Defense reporting some have returned to terrorism. Including a Kuwaiti who was a suicide bomber in Iraq last month. (www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/07/gitmo.bomber)

      Unfortunately, the cited independent and reliable sources provide their opinion, and those are taken at face value instead of being analyzed or filtered through critical thought and factual research.

  • Posted By: drbehavior @ 06/06/2008 1:48:45 AM

    Such heavy-handed censorship only facilitates a perpetuation of negative propaganda. Whenever a place, concept, or individual is surrounded by abject secrecy the rumors are boundless despite the fact that they're rarely if ever true. The U.S. laid waste a great opportunity.

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