The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98444   Message #1956274
Posted By: Peace
03-Feb-07 - 01:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Give em shit, Canada
Subject: RE: BS: Give em shit, Canada
"Guantanamo Bay is anything but transparent. Media access to Guantanamo Bay has been severely restricted. Journalists "could not talk to detainees, they had to be accompanied by a military escort and their photos were censored." In June, the military shut down media access entirely.

Point 8 initially quoted the mother of a Russian detainee saying how great Guatanamo Bay was: "Of course they wanted to stay there. … They had human rights and good living standards there. They had dentists and good meals — everything they wanted." As the Wasington Post's Al Kamen notes, "[T]his quote from a March 2004 edition of the London Times was a Russian mother comparing Guantanamo with Russian jails." It has been removed from the current document available online."

Save it, Dick!