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in south boston where most take this is the time media claims that the much and of death may be linked to the nominative and time becomes as new challenges dense the alleged russian arms dealer to boot on investigation who's. the man behind the deadly months. how do links to international terrorists group or else according to russian security service the evidence that was flown delta mug woman. was killed in a special operation last week. on the on line with no way to meet again but it said latest revelations from the cia failed so the world on fire but the label secret focuses on the perception that the united states is an expose yourself to terrorists it. brings you a special report that takes a look inside the infamous guantanamo bay you press them.
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affairs care problem hello my name eric's can be. swedish. regarding visits to. face yes we have quite a quarter we go. just about every wednesday. and there and i quite get from puerto rico to guantanamo the flights are story. you will be required to pay twelve dollars a night person. watching. and whatever it is you are her for telephone or area and me or. you'll be able to see the care for which they are detained and. you'll see a somewhat of a detention and you'll be able to photograph it all right this is very good if they share yeah i thank you very much if you saw it carry more probably question me coffee. yet you take care.
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i think. it's actually have. people. in sweden. speak with different people. experience. and his job is to show us that everything is ok here. but we have come here because we want to know what is really going on at guantanamo feeling isn't allowed inside the prison camp so we were thinking of shooting with a hidden camera. unfortunately that's just not going to happen. we know there's
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a swedish guy held inside here his name is. will be released later when he returns to sweden he'll give only one press conference. you say five months. how did you finance all these trips six trips in two years where were you. did you support bin laden and al qaeda. fighters did you carry arms what do you think of bin laden. and after that he won't talk to us he refuses to talk to anyone who has anything to do with the media. to tell his story we have to go back. to long before the press conference. was still held at guantanamo. and when there was only one official version as you can hear it on the radio station voice of america. being
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scrutinized and interrogated at the u.s. naval base at guantanamo bay cuba. select few american servicemen and u.s. officials have direct contact with the prisoners. u.s. officials insist that detainees are not tortured or subject to any cruel treatment during interrogation sessions in fact. their way to make the captors feel comfortable to coax information from. fashion. exactly right here the story could have ended if it wasn't for this man who we saw in a public square. he's my father and he had a feeling that things were not good at guantanamo and. forty to forty five degrees of heat looked up and and chained. night totally
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isolated not allowed to speak to see or to hear but magic's father didn't know that it was the other way around it was matinee together with most of the other prisoners that had in fact decided to stop talking. rumor now was that it wasn't forty degrees one hundred guntown the anymore that the army had started exposing prisoners to freezing temperatures to get them to talk. is urged him as a father to reach out to communicate with his son via a letter which we will transform and ask his son to just cooperate. this will help him determine his future. richard prosper the man with the good advice and puppy dog eyes. he is an expert of international law and is signed by the president to visit the countries that have citizens being held at
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guantanamo. here he was in sweden to persuade mentees father to convince his son to start to talk again. in the geneva conventions but he by his conduct is not the benefits of. a prisoner of war. think. in chains day and night. you need to keep in mind that the people in u.s. custody are not there because they stole a car. or robbed a bank. that's not why they're. criminals. they're enemy combatants and terrorists who are being detained for acts of war
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against our country and that is why different rules. the head of the international red cross for example people and human rights issues say. what you're doing is against. human rights conventions there was a fundamental problem the only thing i know for certain is that these are bad people the united states at one point in time signed the geneva convention there it's stated that prisoners of war need only to answer for questions of name rank nationality and id number. four simple questions won't get you very far when you need answers to hundreds of questions a prison camp full of prisoners of war you only need to answer for questions is a useless prison camp. but there were no other rules. and leaders from countries who had citizens at guantanamo were worried primarily. the first matter
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he brought up. was the swedish prisoner he was very forthright very frank and very concerned about. the situation seemed to be out of control. simply on television. what nobody knew was the president had written a letter. a letter that only the president's inner circle world where oh. in the letter he wrote that there was a new paradigm in the world and the rules were no longer defined by the u.s. but by terrorists this new world order and got him thinking and after extensive discussions he came to the simple conclusion of the geneva convention could not be applied to terrorists. and for that reason he came up with
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a new word for the prisoners at guantanamo unlawful combatants. no one had heard this word before. and no one knew what consequences this work. again. now. as the army has nicknamed it we still haven't. he's still being held in here most of the time we are on this bus touring all the recreational activities of vailable to the soldiers stationed here.
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when the operation first started out it was something that was new and just like with everything you want to prove and prove it in the u.s. it's a lot of pride in trying to improve the living standards for its troops to keep morale high we're talking to kentucky. is. the subway here slowly we're improving the condition of the soldiers and this is just right but we haven't come here to take part in the soldiers delight over the variety of fast food we want to know what's really going on here. here we are at the gates to camp delta where the prisoners are kept. the person in front is sergeant johnson the man behind the scenes who has the
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authority over our guides as the second man is colonel mcqueen responsible for security. as much as you can. are leaving how do you. we are americans everywhere and being american soldiers we come up with a way of life a democracy that provides rights to people to be treated humanely fair for our system how do you do that because i'm a military profession as military professional i've been given a mission and that mission says that i will safely secure the detainees within camp delta and provide a humane treatment people don't i didn't. question. the family for example the family of the swedish detainees you know they don't know why he's here they thought that he went to study they have no information they don't
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they haven't been able to see him for a year what would you tell them if you met them what would you say to them. i would tell them from the detention standpoint. each and every detainee here is being treated humanely. he. still trying to convince me to take this opportunity to tell us what had happened but something always came up making it difficult for us to meet. but now he has promised to help us to get in touch with other prisoners released from guantanamo. this is jamal from manchester who was with matty in guantanamo. and there's man who still hasn't decided if he wants to talk. you know i don't even. remember. speaking you. know what they would do the.
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next two weeks different people to see if you know a person from before off speaks english that person to see you know is there any connection with these guys from maybe the from before. oh yeah people constantly moved. what. you heard was cool. or i wouldn't say that. i once up i wanted to let them know. that for me the most crucial thing here is to be. where you. are. and i but. it seems hard to talk about what happened to them in guantanamo especially from
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a. maybe because he's devoted two years to keeping silent. i was in the war nor tortured physically. my head complicated with americans told them all they wanted to know. for about six months but it was too much so i stopped talking with them for two years. they started using the methods you heard about you know believe me i've been in the interrogation room i was kept in there for twelve fourteen hours. and they put on air conditioning and about thirteen degrees below zero.
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my stupid you're talking to the god. and this caused a loss and we have you on the next to someone who's next to you on this crisis so yeah i did the same thing. my name is sergeant andrew slow. enough for thirty eight military police company from early kentucky. and to get this. i feel that they're like this. i'm making this case law enforcement from slade ohio.
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and then specialist michael from. you know the swedish guy he's there he's. my personally actually i can tell you we don't comment on specific details or specific nationalities so that question to him he would be ok and. the. money even the names just don't do my job they finished one of them still in the. don't talk and neither do the prisoners. maybe it has something to do with this
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man. his name is general miller and he's the commanding officer at guantanamo has agreed to a short interview he is in an unusually good mood. mission to detain enemy combatants and then to gain intelligence from there to be able to win the global war on terrorism and so we are detaining these combatants in a humane manner in a matter. that is appropriate today in accordance as much as we can with the geneva convention. we do we work very hard to ensure that the detainees are maintained. in this manner. but what's wrong with. that. when we were doing this interview with miller we were not aware of how
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important he was to the story because no other single person has had as much influence over how the prisoners at guantanamo are treated. but what we do know is that miller hasn't always been in charge of the base. before we left we found a short article about general rick baucus who was in command before miller. backus was fired under very weird circumstances the only ones who seemed willing to speculate why is military corruption an organization consisting of ex military personnel who investigate corruption within the army ok all i can say to you as we're on the telephone all i can say to you is we have a network of sources that we call see. potential informants. all i can say on the. bad guys is
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a one star general brigadier general. he ran into trouble with a two star general who is in charge of the interrogation. i think it's because they complained about policy dealing with those first hours they would come and sit down in front of the cage and speak to the detainee's that within the cages and then the soldiers the american soldiers would sue pleased to see the big general come down and sit down on the ground from. bank gun fired because he was too nice to the prisoners. and was opposed to a secret list of unconventional questioning methods now word goldring out this. is that. some of the interrogations may i don't have to prove. the violation of human rights or what we would not sure where you hear when
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general was here no we came just after you had. you know why. have you heard anything. nothing that i would want to repeat because i don't know that is true. as far as the history of general back is. all we know as far as he was he everyone here is on a tourist. six months and he finishes six months already one home we called up and baucus is old press secretary and southern command. both. you can ask now i don't know how to get budgets that need no longer in the military he retired or even the a.f. he retired out earlier this month. so be argued i had no way of getting into that either but baucus has not retired he has been reassigned to a desk job. you know his phone number. at the area
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or wrote on. now. this writ back of many me as. a filmmaker and. to ask if you quest is a bad one tell them all about what happened there. was you know that i'm not on there anymore and to any public affairs inquiry number four and to the other comedian the public affairs officer you don't talk about at this point i'm not off the record or. ok thank you for calling. is not the story about baucus. we would contact him again. even if he isn't a small pawn in a much bigger game. the security of the world requires
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disarming saddam hussein. saddam hussein and his sons must leave iraq within forty eight hours. passed chardy of iraqi citizens. this is a bad brings a further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. but when these pictures from saddam's ghraib prison came out. it's clear they had a scandal on their hands some say these methods originated in guantanamo we just haven't seen the pictures rumors have also begun to circulate new rumors of interrogators using sex and hip hop music to get people to crack.
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use the sexual act. to gain against you. firstly know me personally know by people you know it happens in school. if you. see. the. world that was on that again that sean a lot of other things but then they sense in a girl who. will continue and she came up to me and stars it's awesome you know. and she told me she can do many things for me she started to touch me give me a massage and she grabbed me as certain places and and she actually told me that she could do plenty for me. but when she came close and she certain
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spots then i put up my hands and trying to protect myself and when she saw that at the end she got angry since i didn't want to you know we but she said that whenever i wanted to see her and she said her name was sylvia and. just tell them that you want to see me. and then we'll arrange everything and after that she left. maybe that sounds like a prisoner's dream. to have a uniform come in and give him. but we are sure the methods aren't used to for the prisoners comfort and convenience. what kind of bizarre
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interrogation methods are being used at guantanamo and what happens to the prisoners that are still being held there and are these methods really sanctioned from a. part of the answer comes thanks to the abu ghraib scandal in iraq. which set off a storm of protests and a wave of investigations which made public thousands of previously classified documents. human rights activists all over the world began taking measures to get prisoners released from guantanamo. or get a piece of paper. which. actually approved. and if you read them. among all the documents we find a story a story that has its beginning in the fall of two thousand and two they have
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a problem at guantanamo the prisoners have stopped talking. the old methods don't seem to be effective anymore. now they want to interrogate for twenty. remove prisoners. let them stand naked in an uncomfortable position. where. they also want permission under medical supervision to lower the temperatures. and take advantage of prisoners. for example of prisoners fear of dogs. so here you have. the use of dogs and of course the word phobias is particularly interesting because that has to do with. their. just bear for muslims the dogs are on glee but later happens in the interrogation. when the new methods are
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