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Frustrated Mess
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posted 14 May 2008 02:28 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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In his book Five Years of My Life, published a fortnight ago, Murat Kurnaz maintains that one of the guards greeted him on his arrival with these words. "Do you know what the Germans did to the Jews? That's exactly what we're going to do with you." There were certain similarities. "I knew a man from Morocco," Kurnaz writes, "who used to be a ship captain. He couldn't move one of his little fingers because of frostbite. The rest of his fingers were all right. They told him they would amputate the little finger. They brought him to the doctor, and when he came back, he had no fingers left. They had amputated everything but his thumbs." The young man - scarcely more than a boy - in the cage next to Kurnaz's had just had his legs amputated by American doctors after getting frostbite in a coalition prison in Afghanistan. The stumps were still bleeding and covered in pus. He received no further treatment or new dressings. Every time he tried to hoist himself up to sit on his pot by clinging to the wire, a guard would come and hit his hands with a billy-club. Like every other prisoner, he was routinely beaten by the camp's Immediate Reaction Force, and taken away to interrogation cells to be beaten up some more.

Just when you think you know the depth of US depravity ....

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Fleabitn
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posted 14 May 2008 03:47 PM      Profile for Fleabitn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My outrage at this is only equalled by my outrage at the apathy and acceptance of the American people.
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Those of you planning a cross-border shopping trip this weekend will be pleased to hear that the E coli laced spinach will be ON SALE again at your favourite Food Lion.

Enjoy your visit.


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