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pursuing its own agenda wiki leaks is accused of trying to divert attention from the sex scandal involving its founder by publishing its latest revelations. the face of the so-called spy scandal chum and finds himself in the spotlight again this time she's being sued by a glossy magazine for breaking up called trucks. coming up next also brings you a special report that takes a look inside the infamous guantanamo bay prison. yes
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. eric. sweden. my friend we do feel and we would like to. see what time of day so. we want to show it's possible. it is possible to give you a different number or a u.s. air force captain off of russia. oh affairs care probably. many of you spirits can be. swedish. regarding visits to. face yes we have quite a quarter we go. just about every wednesday. and there tonight quite. from puerto rico to guantanamo the flights are story. you will be required to pay twelve
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dollars a night person. watching. and whatever addicted as you occur for telephone or area and me office. you'll be able to see the care for which they are detained and. you'll see a somewhat of a dissident and you'll be able to photograph it all right this is very good if i may share yeah i thank you very much appreciate your saw it carry more probably question me coffee. yes i think you're. i think when i. say that i've had is actually have. made. it's interesting talking to people. in sweden from the middle east north america. have the opportunity to speak with different people. here how they feel
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about the detainees here how they feel politics it's it it's an interesting experience and i feel like this is. 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 a swedish guy held inside here his name. will be released later when he returns to sweden he'll give only one press conference. you say. it's. fine and so all these trips six trips in two years where were you. supported bin laden and al qaeda did you meet al qaeda fighters did you carry arms
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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. or to tell his story we have to go back. to long before the press conference. was still held. and when there was only one official version as you can hear it on the radio station voice of america. being scrutinized. 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 the detainees are not tortured or subject to any cruel treatment during interrogation sessions in fact. their way to make the captors
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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 isolated not allowed to speak to see or to hear but matty's father didn't know that it was the other way around it was matted together with most of the other prisoners that had in fact decided to stop talking. rumor now was that it wasn't forty degrees or any more that the army had started exposing prisoners to freezing temperatures to get them to talk. is urged him. to reach
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out to communicate with his son via a letter which we will transport and just. this will help him determine his future. richard. the man with a 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 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.
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you need to keep in mind that the people in u.s. custody are not there because they stole the car. or robbed a bank. that's not why they're there. they're enemy combatants and terrorists who are being detained for acts of war against our country and that is why different. the head of the international. human rights issues say. clear. what you're doing is against. human rights conventions there was a fundamental problem i think i know for certain people the united states at one point in time signed the geneva convention. stated that prisoners of war need only
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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 prime minister. the first matter 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. and. simply.
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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 got him thinking and after extensive discussions he came to the simple conclusion the geneva convention could not be applied to terrorists. and for that reason he came up with 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.
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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. 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. the kentucky. days. of the subway here
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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 authority over our guides as the second man is colonel mcqueen responsible for security. as much as you can. leaving. we are american so and being american soldiers we come up with a way of life a democracy that provides the rights to people to be treated humanely fair for.
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how do you do that because i'm a military professional as military professional i've been given a mission and that mission says that i will safely secure the detainees within camp delta and by humane treatment people that 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 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 to 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
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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. remember to speak. what they would do the. next week different people to see if you know a person from before off speaks english. to see any connection with these guys from . before. that oh yeah people constantly move. what. you heard was cool. or. i once saw i wanted to let them know.
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so i refused. but for me the most crucial thing here is to be. away. maybe. it seems hard to talk about what happened to them in guantanamo. especially from a. maybe because he's devoted two years to keeping silent. i was in the war and more tortured physically. my head complicated with americans told them all they wanted to know. for about six months but it wasn't too much so i stopped talking with them for two
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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. my stupid you're talking to the god. and this caused loss and we have you on the next days being someone who's next to you and this guy suffering so yeah i did the same thing to the cost.
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my name is sergeant andrew slow. enough for thirty eight military police company from early kentucky. to get this and. i think that they're like this. maybe in this case law enforcement from slate ohio. and any specialist michael from spending. you know the swedish guy he's there. i personally actually can tell you that we don't comment on specific detainees or specific nationalities so they question
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him he would be against. the. names just don't do my job they finished third one of them is going in. don't talk and neither do the prisoners. maybe it has something to do with this 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 them to be able to win the global war on terrorism and so we are detaining combatants in
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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 matter. but what's wrong with. that. when we were doing this interview with miller we were not aware of how 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. because
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it 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 is 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 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 been they complained about policy dealing with those first hours he would come and sit down in front of the cage and then she speak to the detainee is 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. gun fired because he was too
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nice to the prisoners. and was opposed to a secret list of unconventional questioning methods that outward goldring out of this. is that. some of the interrogations may i don't have to prove. violation of human rights or what we would not sure where you hear when general those of us here know we came just after you had. you know why. and. have you heard anything. nothing that i would want to repeat because i don't know if it is true. and as far as the history of general back is. all we know as far as he was he everyone here is on
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a tourist. six months and he finishes six months already more home we called up and baucus is old press secretary and southern command all balls. and you can ask now i don't know how to get budget they need no longer in the military he retired or even yet he retired out earlier this month. so we are to do i have no way of getting to know either but baucus has not retired he has been reassigned to a desk job. and you know his phone number. at the area or row one. now. that's right back 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
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there anymore and any public affairs inquiry number far into the other command of public affairs officer. you don't talk about that at this point i'm not off the record or. ok thank you for calling. is not feeling of the story about baucus. we would contact him again. even if he's a just a small the pawn in a much bigger game. the security of the world requires disarming saddam hussein. saddam hussein and his sons must leave iraq within forty eight hours. past majority 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
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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. you. say sure that. firstly know me personally know by people you know it happens in school. it is.
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the. world that was on the ground that sean a lot of other things but then they sent in a girl who. will come to me and she came up to me and started to talk. and she told me she could 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 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. 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.
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and then we'll arrange everything and after that she left. maybe that sounds like a prisoner's wet dream. to have a woman in uniform come in and give him a massage. but we are sure the methods aren't used to for the prisoners comfort and convenience. what kind of bizarre 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
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documents. human rights activists all over the world began taking measures to get prisoners released from guantanamo. get a piece of paper. which. techniques. these are. 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 a problem at guantanamo the prisoners have stopped talking and the old methods don't seem to be effective anymore. now they want to interrogate for twenty hours. remove prisoners clothes let them stand naked in an uncomfortable position. where. they also want permission under medical supervision to lower the temperatures in
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interrogation rooms. and take advantage of prisoners. for example of prisoners fear of dogs. so here you have our secretary of defense authorizing the use of dogs and of course the word phobias is particularly interesting because that has to do with. the religious fare for muslims that dogs are unclean but later happens in the interrogation room. when the new methods are implemented only the prisoners know. they're interrogators the problem is that the interrogators at guantanamo don't give interviews with one exception tora nelson.
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