Tag: Guantanamo

Asymmetric warfare and the Gitmo inmate PR machine

13th June 2006

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Image source: www.indymedia.org

The image above may give the impression that the inmates at Gitmo are suffering, but this isn’t the case at all. According to Commander Harry Harris, the three suicides the other day were not out of desperation, but “an act of asymmetric warfare”. If you find this a little conceptually challenging, try this one for size … Colleen Graffy, the deputy assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy [sic], told the BBC on Sunday: “Taking their own lives was not necessary, but it certainly is a good PR move to draw attention”. The absurdity of these remarks will only serve one purpose; this being to aggravate the already aggrieved to commit more acts of violence against the West.

The Tipton Three

14th March 2004

There was the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four and now we have the Tipton Three. There will, no doubt, be a book and a major feature film in time to come. I just hope, after reading Revealed: the full story of the Guantanamo Britons in today’s Observer that — in the process — these three young men will be compensated in some small measure for the inhumane treatment they received at the hands of their US captors. The prospect of financial compensation from the US Government or their British co-conspirators would appear to be too politically unpalatable for words.