Guantanamo operating manual posted on Internet
posted by
Wally
7:56 AM
If you want to know what you'll be facing if you are caught doing something deemed unAmerican and unpatriotic by the Bush administration (like reading this type of website, for instance), now you can find out with a click of your mouse. The 238 page Gitmo operating manual can now be found on Wikileaks.org. Get your copy while it's hot - or at least before it's taken down and classified by Dubya. (on edit, it might already be blocked - I can't open Wikileaks this morning).
The manual has such fun little tidbits of information as: Incoming prisoners are to be held in near-isolation for the first two weeks to foster dependence on interrogators and "enhance and exploit the disorientation and disorganization felt by a newly arrived detainee in the interrogation process."
Styrofoam cups must be confiscated if prisoners have written on them, apparently because prisoners have used cups to pass notes to other captives. "If the cup is damaged or destroyed, the detainee will be disciplined for destruction of government property," the rules say.
It contains instructions as only the military can write them, such as how to use pepper spray on unruly prisoners. "Aim at the eyes, nose and mouth when possible. Use a 1/2 to 1 second burst from a distance of 36 to 72 inches away."
The manual spells out in minute detail how captives should be shackled, searched and moved and how the chains should be collected afterward. Perhaps the most damning bit of information, however, is that "some prisoners were designated as off limits to visitors from the International Committee of the Red Cross, something the military has repeatedly denied." Also something that is expressly forbidden by the Geneva Convention. I'm sure this will be some fun reading for those groups and countries intent on capturing American troops and civilians.
But remember, we don't torture. Depending, of course, on how narrowly and specifically you define torture.
Gitmo Rules!
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