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Former Guantanamo Bay Guards Reveal Torture and Abuse

They say it hasn't been easy to live with what they were part of, and that is why they have come clean.

Guantanamo Bay graffiti
Graffiti shows clearly what people on the outside think of what happens in the inside of Guantanamo Bay.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Former Guantanamo Bay military guards have come forward in recent weeks and months with stories about torture and abuse, and they are logged on YouTube and available for anyone to see.

I've included videos with this report that feature interviews with two particular soldiers, who say it has been a healing experience to come forward.

In the first video a former Guantanamo Bay guard who served in the U.S. Army, tells Press TV that the United States must stop holding prisoners without charge or trial.

Christopher Arendt went to the UK to meet ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates.

He told Press TV's Roshan Muhammed Salih, that Barack Obama must close down all the U.S.'s secret detention centers all over the world.

On the subject of torture, MSNBC is one network that is increasingly breaking the molds and boundaries of "mainstream media".

National news lost a lot of respect for not busting George W. Bush's weapons of mass distraction fabrication and standing up against the invasion of Iraq.

And along comes Rachel Maddow and her interview with Brandon Neely, a former soldier in the US Army who served as a guard at Guantanamo Bay.

Brandon gives Rachel an account of some of the brutal happenings at the soon-to-be-closed terrorist detainment camp. This interview is from 2-17-09.

The United States has firmly stated that it will not participate in torture. The current U.S. President has a radically different set of plans that the last. The U.S. is trying to offload the remaining "Gitmo" prisoners at this very time, with Germany being the scene of the last request from the United States.

Here is the Press TV report on Guantanamo Bay:

Here is Rachel Maddow's piece on Guantanamo Bay:


Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor.
Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), the first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several other awards including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website, affiliated with Google News and several other major search engines and news aggregators.
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S.LaMarche; May 5, 2009 9:02 pm (Pacific time)

Thank You, Thank You!

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