Our own concentration camps

Outed.

It's what good patriots do, right?

Catapult the propaganda?

"Wikileaks reports that US armed forces personnel at Guantanamo have conducted propaganda attacks over the Internet. (The story has been picked up by the NYTimes, The Inquirer, the New York Daily News, and the AP.) The activities documented by Wikileaks include deleting Guantanamo detainees' ID numbers from Wikipedia, posting of self-praising comments on news websites in response to negative articles, promoting pro-Guantanamo stories on the Internet news focus website Digg, and even altering Wikipedia's entry on Cuban President Fidel Castro to describe him as 'an admitted transsexual' (misspelling the word 'transsexual'). Guantanamo spokesman Lt. Col. Bush blasted Wikileaks for identifying one 'mass communications officer' by name, who has since received death threats for 'simply doing his job — posting positive comments on the Internet about Gitmo.'"

I mean... rice pilaf! And lemon herbed chicken! What's not to like? Like this boy here. He was 15 when he was brought to Gitmo. FIVE years ago. That's a lot of rice pilaf!:

Detained at age 15 in July 2002 by US Forces in Afghanistan, the Canadian Omar Khadr, Guantanamo detainee #766, has been held for over 5 years without trial. Omar was one of at least three detainees who had their ID numbers covertly deleted from Wikipedia on Nov 1 and Nov 2, 2007 by Guantanamo staff.

Five years without trial. And they're trying to erase his name. What are they planning to do with him, disappear him? After five years, is he functional and able to be let go? Are they ever going to let him go?

Or are these lucky lemon-herbed-chicken-eating guys prisoners for life just because?

The disappeared get a trial

Before they are completely erased.

Trials starting at Guantanamo:

The Pentagon is launching its first trials of long-term detainees at Guantanamo. The trials will take place before military tribunals, which grant very few rights to defense attorneys. Ironically, it became clear long ago that the overwhelming majority of the prisoners at Guantanamo were not terrorists.

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For half a decade, the prisoners at Guantanamo have been in a state of legal limbo as they awaited their trial, but now the Americans are set to try the first of 385 prisoners still being held at the US military enclave on Cuba. The first group of prisoners arrived in Guantanamo in January 2002 dressed in orange overalls with hoods covering their heads. Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called them "the worst of the worst," presenting the world with the pictures of men cowering on the ground as a victory in one stage of the war on terror.

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Since establishing the camp in 2002, the Bush administration has released close to 300 of the roughly 770 prisoners with the explanation that they were "no longer enemy combatants" -- as if being imprisoned at Guantanamo had somehow had a cathartic effect on them. There have been many suicide attempts at the camp since then, three of them successful.

Keeping track of those that have been disappeared

Into our world-wide Gitmos and Abu Ghraibs.

Pentagon defines what we are doing to detainees is a-ok

I mean, it's obvious these terrorists aren't actually human with families and feelings and shit.

"The Pentagon's rules for upcoming detainee trials would allow terrorism suspects to be convicted and perhaps executed using hearsay evidence and some coerced testimony.

The rules are fair, said the Pentagon, which released them Thursday in a manual for the expected trials. However, they could spark a fresh confrontation between the Bush administration and the Democratic-led Congress over treatment of terror suspects.

According to the 238-page manual, a detainee's lawyer could not reveal classified evidence in the person's defense until the government had a chance to review it. Suspects would be allowed to view summaries of classified evidence, not the material itself."