En side at Gitmo vi ikke hører om

Der har i snart fire år været utrolig megen fokus på Guantanamo, mere specifikt på hvordan de indsatte der behandles. Ud over nogle sager om tolke mistænkt for at kollaborere med islamofascisterne har der imidlertid været meget lidt om hvordan vagterne på Gitmo oplever det. Der for dette, fra The Washington Times via Little Green Footballs:

But after a guard discovered a dangerously sharp object hidden in the empty cell of a detainee, a violent confrontation ensued, illustrating military officials' contention that criticisms from human rights groups only tell part of the story

According to two Army prison guards, one 22 years old and the other 28, the prisoner was temporarily in another part of the prison for a bath when the jagged, rectangular piece of metal, three to four inches long was found and removed.

But the two guards, who spoke in a rare interview with The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity, said an altercation then followed in which the detainee tried to gouge out one of the guards' eyes.

After first allowing the detainee to return from his shower to the cell, a five-man team of guards then began a carefully choreographed "cell extraction" to move him to another cell, where he would not be able to do further damage.

"He was extremely aggressive from the moment we went in," said the 28-year-old guard, whose job it was to "push the detainee back" as another guard quickly handcuffed the prisoner.

Before the cuffs could go on though, things went wrong and the detainee forced his hands up under the first guard's plexiglass face mask and began digging for the eyeball.

"He tried to insert one finger into my eye socket, then he transitioned into a fishhook maneuver," the guard said. "He got his finger into my mouth and was trying to rip my cheek off." After another moment, the detainee's hands were forced down and into the cuffs.

Artiklen nævner også at der netop nu bruges 2,8 millioner $ på at opføre en psykiatrisk afdeling, da 20-30 af de indsatte er på psykofarmaka for at behandle alt fra schizofreni til manio-depressivitet.

Hyggelige mennesker.

Henrik