2011年4月25日星期一

The Guantanamo files: Classified files provide new insights in prisoners

WASHINGTON-A treasure trove of more than 700 secret military documents offers new and detailed accounts of men who have made time in the prison of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as new insights into the evidence against 172 men up there still locked.

The US prison in Guantanamo Bay holds still 172 prisoners, most rated "high risk". This article is based on a huge treasure trove of secret government documents leaked last year for the anti-secrecy organization of WikiLeaks, and to the New York Times from a different source on condition of anonymity made available.Editors and journalists, who edited this article will choose you answer questions about the coverage of the material. Prayed a prisoner in the Guantanamo Bay prison outside his cell in 2007, in an area for the most compatible prisoners.

Military intelligence officials, in reviews of prisoners written from February 2002 until January 2009, its history evaluated and provided insights into the tensions between captors and prisoners. What started as a jury-rigged experiment after the terrorist attacks of 2001 now seems a permanent American institution, and the leaked files, show why setting of bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence, which would never have stand in many cases in criminal court or a military tribunal.

The documents record meticulously the prisoners ' Pocket litter "if it is collected: a Kabul bus ticket, fake passports and forged student ID, a receipt restaurant also a poem. You list the prisoners diseases - hepatitis, tuberculosis, gout and depression. You note their serial interrogations, enumerate - even after six or more years of relentless questioning - remaining "areas of potential use." Describe in mates' infractions - die-cutting waking, apart tear slippers, screaming about cell blocks. And the analysts try to strengthen, it years of the prisoners comments to a different data set the case for further detention.

The secret documents, the New York Times and several other news organizations, show that most of the remaining 172 prisoners as a "high risk" of posing a threat to the United States and their allies, if published without appropriate rehabilitation and oversight have rated. But they show that about a third of the 600 already transmitted also a greater number of prisoners who have - left Cuba on other countries - have been called "High risk" before they were released or handed over to the custody of other Governments.

The documents are largely silent - including sleep deprivation, of loops in stress positions and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures - about the use of harsh interrogation tactics at Guantánamo, moved the global condemnation. Several prisoners, but are as shown, make up false stories about subject to abuse.

The Government basic accusations against many detainees have long public and often from prisoners and their lawyers have been challenged. But the dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration a deeper look at the frightening, if flawed, intelligence, which has the Obama administration, also persuaded, that the prison can not easily be closed.

Prisoners who worried especially counterterrorism officials include some defendants, assassins vowed for Al Qaeda, activists for a cancelled suicide mission and prisoners to their interrogators that she would wreak revenge against America.

The military analysts files offer new information about the berüchtigsten their prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. At some point to March 2002 he ordered a former Baltimore resident, don suicide bomb vest and perform a "martyrdom" attack on Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan's President, according to the documents. But as the man, Majid only a test Khan, the Pakistani mosque that he had said that Mr Musharraf would visit the assignment proved for his "willingness to die for the cause."

The files show the method of forecast years in the case of a false identity collect intelligence in war zones, or simple accident led to the police buildings innocent men. In May 2003, for example, included Afghan national army of prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, close to the scene of a roadside bomb explosion that display documents. He denied involvement, saying that he was a shepherd. Guantanamo de Briefers and analysts agreed, citing its consistent history, his knowledge of animals and his ignorance of "simple military and political concepts," Beware of depending on its assessment. A "enemy combatants" explains still a military tribunal to him anyway, and he was not sent home until 2006.

Obama administration officials condemned the publication of classified documents, obtained last year by the anti-secrecy group of WikiLeaks, however, to the times from a different source. The officials pointed out, that an administration task force set up in January 2009 came the information in the prisoners reviews and in some cases checked at different conclusions. So they said, can the documents of the times published not a current view of the Government of prisoners at Guantanamo is.

See the results in the files:

?Switching 20th hijacker: the best documented case an abusive interrogation methods at Guantanamo survey was the coercive, end of 2002 and early 2003, by Mohammed Qahtani. A Saudi believes man 11 attacks to have been an intended participant in the Sept., Mr Qahtani was sexually humiliated like a dog, and forced to urinate on themselves restricted. His file says, "Although publicly shared entries claim that prisoner was subject to harsh interrogation methods in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are confirmed in the reports from other sources." But claims that it allegedly found made of at least 16 other prisoners have - especially in April and May 2003 - are cited in their files without any reservation.

Charlie Savage reported from Washington, and William Glaberson and Andrew W. lessons from New York. Scott Shane contributed reporting from Washington, and Benjamin Weiser and Andrei Scheinkman from New York.


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