June 20, 2005
View Comments | Post CommentMP at Gitmo treated just like a regular detainee
Wow! This is insane. An MP at Guantanamo Bay volunteered to portray a detainee in a training exercise. He put on an orange jumpsuit and was told to act like an unruly detainee. Meanwhile, a five-man "internal reaction force" was told he had assaulted an officer, and they were not told he was actually a US soldier.
So, during the training exercise, it turns out that the guy got the shit beat out of him, with his head getting repeatedly slammed against a concrete wall, pepper spray, and other shit. He said the "safe word," and kept yelling that he was a US soldier, but they didn't stop until his orange jumpsuit was ripped off of him and they saw his uniform underneath. Now he's suing, saying he has irreversible brain damage, and suffers from seizures, etc. So in other words, that's what they do to regular detainees.
The craziest part? In addition for $15m for rights violations, he's suing for the right to still be able to work in the military. He was in Gitmo because he re-enlisted after serving a tour in the Gulf War. The man clearly had brain damage before the incident.
Posted at June 20, 2005 2:01 AM | Comments (0)
