Ever wanted to know what culinary delicacies are served to inmates at Guantanamo Bay? Worry no more, The Gitmo Cookbook will answer all your questions. American conservative activists reckon this is a way to convince the world that “Gitmo” is a holiday camp under a different name. US Vice President can’t understand the outcry: “There isn’t any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we’re treating these people”. Prisoners are “living in the tropics”, he says.
How many more reports need to be released to prove the American facility is a travesty of human rights?
An Amnesty spokesperson perfectly expressed the sentiment: “It is not a matter of climate or what food prisoners get, but a question of justice.”
Perhaps we need to remember the words of senior Pentagon official, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Christino, who claimed in 2004 that intelligence gathered from Guantanamo Bay inmates had failed to stop even one terrorist act and the system of interrogation there was almost guaranteed to produce false confessions.