I have to give credit to Obama for ignoring the Gitmo detainees...but I won't. He ignores everything anyway. This just happens to have an outcome I agree with:A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison.
"I believe that President Obama must be unaware of the unbelievably inhumane conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison, for otherwise he would surely do something to stop this torture," Yemeni prisoner Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani wrote in a federal court declaration this year.
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Like most of the 166 prisoners remaining at Guantanamo, Al Madhwani is participating in a hunger strike to protest his detention and prison conditions. "Indefinite detention is the worst form of torture," wrote Al Madhwani, who is in his 11th year at the prison and has never been charged with a crime.
The judge said he found Al Madhwani's testimony about harsh treatment at the hands of U.S. forces in Afghanistan prisons to be credible.
"Before Guantanamo, he had endured 40 days of solitary confinement, severe physical and mental abuse, malnourishment, sensory deprivation, anxiety and insomnia," Hogan said. But the judge ruled that statements Al Madhwani made during two military administrative hearings at Guantanamo were reliable and sufficient to justify holding him, because he had been "part of" Al Qaeda.
Read the rest HERE.I'm glad that Al Madhwani is a team player and has joined his fellow prisoners in their efforts to do their part for sequester by lessening the food bill.
I hope they all have a LONG and successful fast. I'm sure Allah will reward those who last the longest.
I still think that the hunger strike would make one hell of a Reality Show.
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