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[digg-reddit-me]He must have had a bad experience with Club Med.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Military.com reports<\/a> that:<\/p>\n Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who led a group of congressmen to Guantanamo, told the New York Post the facility was like a Club Med for terrorists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Club Med? The most reasonable explanation is that Congressman Pete King (my congressman and likely 2010 Republican Senate candidate) was treated very badly at this resort chain, and I’ve contacted Club Med inquiring about this. If Pete King is saying that Club Med is like Guantanamo, he is apparently alleging that they have treated their guests similar to how the prisoners at Guantanamo were treated. So, what types of things happen at Club Med, according to Pete King? Here’s a few examples:<\/p>\n Captives at Guant\u00e1namo Bay were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves, an FBI report has revealed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spc. Sean\u00a0D.<\/span>\u00a0Baker, 38, was assaulted in January 2003 [at Guantanamo Bay] after\u00a0he volunteered to wear an orange jumpsuit and portray an\u00a0uncooperative detainee. Baker said the\u00a0MP<\/span>s, who were told that he was an\u00a0unruly detainee who had assaulted an American sergeant, inflicted a\u00a0beating that resulted in a traumatic brain\u00a0injury…<\/p>\n [Pentagon]\u00a0officials conceded that he was treated for injuries suffered when\u00a0a five-man\u00a0MP<\/span>\u00a0\u201cinternal reaction force\u201d choked him, slammed his\u00a0head several times against a concrete floor and sprayed him with\u00a0pepper\u00a0gas…<\/p>\n As he was being choked and beaten, Baker said, he screamed a\u00a0code word, \u201cred,\u201d and shouted: \u201cI\u2019m a\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0soldier! I\u2019m a\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0soldier!\u201d He said the beating continued until the jumpsuit was yanked\u00a0down during the struggle, revealing his military\u00a0uniform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring\u00a0Guantanamo Bay\u00a0detainees to trial has concluded that the\u00a0U.S. military\u00a0tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold, leaving him in a “life-threatening condition.”<\/p>\n “We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,” said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions…<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Bob Woodward in the <\/a>Washington Post<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The International Committee of the Red Cross has charged in confidential reports to the United States government that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes physical coercion “tantamount to torture” on prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The New York Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Then there’s the fact that Khadr claims to have\u00a0confessed under torture.\u00a0Videos<\/a>\u00a0of him weeping during an interrogation surfaced last year and served only to remind the world that he was a teenager confined at Guantanamo among “the worst of the worst.” Khadr was allegedly shackled in stress positions until he urinated on himself, then covered with pine solvent and used as a “human mop” to clean his own urine. He was beaten, nearly suffocated, beset by attack dogs, and threatened with rape. In May 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in\u00a0Canada v. Khadr<\/em>\u00a0that the detention of Khadr at Guantanamo Bay “constituted a clear violation of fundamental human rights protected by international law…”\u00a0We need to start to make amends for the fact that children in our custody were tortured.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Dahlia Lithwick in <\/a>Slate<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Mohammed al-Qahtani, detainee No. 063, was forced to wear a bra. He had a thong placed on his head. He was massaged by a female interrogator who straddled him like a lap dancer. He was told that his mother and sisters were whores. He was told that other detainees knew he was gay. He was forced to dance with a male interrogator. He was strip-searched in front of women. He was led on a leash and forced to perform dog tricks. He was doused with water. He was prevented from praying. He was forced to watch as an interrogator squatted over his Koran.<\/p>\n That much is known. These details were among the findings of the U.S. Army\u2019s investigation of al-Qahtani’s aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…<\/p>\n [Later h]e was interrogated for 18 to 20 hours per day [using coercive rather than sexually humiliating methods, including waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, and extreme temperatures], for 48 of the next 54 days, according to an Army investigative report. On Dec. 7, 2002, he had to be revived at the detainee hospital when his heart rate fell to 35 beats per minute, according to a log of the interrogation published by Time magazine. Then the interrogation continued.<\/p>\n FBI agents at Guantanamo joined the opposition. A Nov. 27 FBI “legal analysis,” since reported by Newsweek, labeled several parts of the plan as “coercive interrogation techniques which are not permitted by the U.S. Constitution.” It also warned that several of the proposed tactics could constitute torture, depending on how a judge viewed the intent of the interrogator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Clearly, if Club Med is anything like Guantanamo is, it should be investigated for torture, prisoner abuse, child abuse, and various violations of international treaties. I’m awaiting a response from Morgan E. Painvin<\/a>, Club Med’s listed press contact, as to whether Pete King has any substantiation for his apparent allegations of torture and human rights abuses at Club Med.<\/p>\n An alternate and plausible explanation would be that Pete King has been involved in sadomasochism for too long and that it has warped his sense of pleasure and pain. Of course, it’s brave of a suburban politician to admit such a fetish. So I must commend him for his honesty if this is his way of coming out.<\/p>\n I’m not sure I can think of any other reasonable explanations for this statement by Congressman King without calling him delusional, a liar, incredibly ignorant, or a propagandist.<\/p>\n\n
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