Posted on Feb 13, 2021
Biden administration launches review aimed at closing Guantanamo prison
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MY COMMENT: What is the political and military philosophy behind closing the US military Detention facility at Guantanamo Bay? Militarily, Gitmo provides a secure location for suspected war criminals and unlawful combatants in the Global War on Terror, still a very real and active threat to US and international interests. Politically, all bets are off. With trials for 9/11 terror suspects in a quagmire, and myths about torture and abuse, many politicians would like to just make the place and mission go away. Gitmo remains an enigma. For so long the Mainstream Media have misled and lied about the true nature of the place, choosing instead to portray a gulag rather than the finest military detention facility on earth. To learn more, from one who served there from the beginning. READ: Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior, by MAJ (RET) Montgomery J. Granger, former ranking US Army Medical Department officer with the Joint Detainee Operations Group, Joint Task Force 160, and WATCH: Heroes of Gitmo, a POLITIFLIX short documentary film on YouTube based on Granger's book, and narrated by the Major.
Biden administration launches review aimed at closing Guantanamo prison
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Guantanamo Bay
Al Qaeda
Joe Biden
War on Terror
Posted 4 y ago
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The philosophy behind closing it is nothing more than the tortured machinations of emotionally crippled idiots.
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I was stationed at Gitmo from 97-98 in the Security Department and it was much different then we only had to worry about Cuban migrants and Hatian's wanting to be free. Most the time the Hatians went back to Hati. The Cubians usually got stay until they were cleared thru intel and INS and that ususlly took months and then once cleared they waited months and months to get sent to a Spanish speaking country that would accept them. That was hard to deal with because you had got to know them, but we didn't give any details of our personnel life to them. I cannot imagine what it's like to deal with terrorists that want to kill you the minute they could get a chance. It's a Catch-22 for Gitmo.
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MAJ Montgomery Granger
They are insidious. I was there in 2002, and they definitely tried to get into guard's heads. One of the most challenging missions, especially for medical personnel and the guard force. An emotional train wreck is what I called it. Some couldn't handle it and had to be reassigned. As the mission progressed we got better at orientation and training. The al Qaeda training manuals the allies had captured came in handy because it explained some of the methodology. They were trained to LIE about their treatment, claim they were tortured, lawyer up ASAP, etc. Very nasty group. 731 have been RELEASED.
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PO1 RIchard Petty
Probably not when I was there 97-98 they had two of them. Been up that river a few times when HP needed a rider. Also, been out to Watergate a few times when people were fishing and were getting to close.
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