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yes i use eric. schmidt friend which is a field and we like to. see what time of day so. we wanted it is possible. if it is possible of the computer for her or a us air force captain off of the office. so he appears care probably. many if spirits can be accessed from sweden. regarding visits to. face yes we have quite a quarter we go. just about everyone today. and there and i quote. from
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puerto rico to watch the flights or story. you will be required to pay for god and i personally for the watching. and whatever it is you want her for telephone or area. you'll be able to see the care for which they are today. you'll see a somewhat of a character and you'll be able to photograph it all right this is very good if we share i thank you very much if you saw it got to be more proper question because. if you care. i think when i leave here watanabe one of most interesting experiences that i've had is actually having the opportunity to ask media it's interesting talking to people from all around the world from korea from sweden from the middle east from
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north america mali around the world has had the opportunity to speak with different people and hear this here how they feel about the detainees here and how they feel about politics it's a huge it's an interesting experience and i feel like this is richard morris and his job is to show us that everything is ok here. we have come here because we want to know what is really going on at guantanamo. 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 is marty will be released later on when he returns to sweden give only one press conference. you say you spent five months in afghanistan where did you stay. how did you finance all these trips six trips in two years where were you sort of. did you supported bin laden and al qaeda did you
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meet al qaeda fighters digit carry arms not do you think of bin laden. and after that he won't talk to us and refuses to talk to anyone who has anything to do with the media. but to tell his story we have to go back in time too 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 and al qaeda detainees are being scrutinized and interrogated at the u.s. naval base at guantanamo bay cuba only a 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 they say some interrogators go out of their
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way to make the captors feel comfortable talking to coax information from them in an easy going fashion. exactly right here the story could have ended if it wasn't for this man we saw in a public square in stockholm is marty's father and he had a feeling that things were not good at guantanamo and one to two for one eight or forty to forty five degrees of heat locked up and chained and the days. night totally isolated not allowed to speak to see or to hear but mountings 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 one hundred guntown them or any more of the army had started exposing
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prisoners to freezing temperatures to get them to talk what i would do is urge him as a father to reach out to communicate with his son via letter which we will transport and ask his son to just. come clean this will help him it turned in his future here richard prosper the man with a good advice and puppy dog eyes. 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 his father to convince his son to start to talk again. trying the geneva conventions but he by his conduct is not the benefits of privileges to be a prisoner of war don't think about them in chains day and
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night so we have free. who's his father. still. we 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 there they're not common criminal. they're enemy combatants and terrorists who are be detained for acts of war against our country and that is why different rules after. saying no and the head of the international red cross for example people break spirits and human rights issues say plenty of clearly what you're doing is against a kind of human rights conventions there was a fundamental problem the only thing i know for certain is that these are bad
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people the united states at one point in time signed of the geneva convention there it's stated that prisoners of war need only to answer for questions name rank and nationality and i.d. 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 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. talking would be. something. you simply
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choose to the dish. 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. 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. no one had heard this word before. and no one knew what the consequences of this work with.
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afghanistan. now. we were at guantanamo were good mo as the army has nicknamed it we still haven't met my team he's still being held him here. most of the time we are on this bus touring all the recreational activities of a little to the soldiers stationed here. when the operation first started out here it was something that was new and just like with everything you want to improve improve it in the u.s. military has a lot of emphasis on tried and trying to improve the living standards for its
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troops to keep morale. bays in. the subway here slowly we're improving the condition of the soldiers and this is all 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 gary johnson the man behind the scenes who has the authority over our guys so the second man is colonel mcqueen responsible for security. in this helmet 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 for democracy that provides to the rights to people to be treated
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humanely fair for how do you do you have a 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 secured the detainees within camp delta and that i will provide a humane treatment because i did my. question last question ok the family for example the family of this we disputing you know they don't know why he's here they 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 from the detention standpoint. each and every detainee here is being treated humanely. we.
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still trying to convince met today 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 is with matting in guantanamo. and there is man who still hasn't decided if he wants to talk with each other. you know i don't even remember. either for number of. speaking. no because they're what they would do the americans will put next to each different people to see if you know a person from before off opposite speaks english. to see you know is there any connection with these guys from you know maybe them are going to form before dizzy was part of it. oh yeah eleven people come from the move. what
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to you earth call three. or i would say. i once about i would like to let them know. so i refused to answer that one. but for me the most crucial thing here is to be. no way. very maybe. it seems hard to talk about what happens to them in guantanamo especially from. 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.
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for about six months but it was too much so i just stopped talking with them for thirty years. they started using the methods you've heard about. 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 degrees below zero. it. was still nice to be you talking to the god. and this cause lusting review and the next day's being someone who's next to you and this guy suffering so yeah i did the same thing myself ok because.
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my name is sergeant andrew slim. enough for thirty eight military police company from early june taking. away the dust under with it i think it is that. i think that i think. i'll maybe risk a sudden loss in frost and from toledo ohio. and any specialist michael from that if. you know the swedish guy he's there you see. i personally actually can tell you
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that we don't comment on specifically cheney or specific nationalities so that question to him he would be ok and she. was. going to give both of these just under my job as a fish story for them i was going there. so much. for soldiers and one ton a mole 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 he's agreed to a short interview he is in in an unusually good mood take it one column as mission is to detain him in combatants and then to gain intelligence from there to be able
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to win the global war on terrorism and so we are detainees in the 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 what's wrong with the. work that. when we were doing lease 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
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a short article about general rick baucus who was in command before knoller. because 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 outsources that we call see. potential informants. i can't say on the. back there is a one star general brigadier general. we 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 prisoners who would come and sit down in front of a cage and actually speak to the things he's saying is that within the cages and
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then the soldiers silencing the american soldiers would simply to see the big general come down and sit down on the ground in front of the. bank is gun fired because he was too nice to the prisoners. and was opposed to a secret list of unconventional questioning methods that outward goldring out this . is that. some of the interrogations may i don't have to prove. violation of human rights or what we we're not sure where you hear when general was here no we came just after year you know why. and right here. have you heard me say. nothing that i would want to repeat because i don't know if it is true. and as far as the history general back is. all we know as far as he was
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he everyone here is on a tour. six months and he finishes six months or two more home we call them faxes old press secretary and southern command. both. you can ask now i don't know how to get a budget i need no longer in the military retired or even yet he tired out earlier this month. though the article i had no way of getting into it either but baucus has not retired he has been reassigned to a desk job. out of his own number k. area or row on. the rail now. or. a straight back of many of his them the filmmaker adds. a test if you quest is
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a bad one tell them all about what happened there. was you know that i'm not on there anymore and any public affairs inquiry into the other command of public affairs officer you don't to talk about that said to the point i'm not you know off the record or. ok thank you for calling. is not a full story account by case. we would contact him again. even if he isn't just a small to hone 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. passed chardy of iraqi citizens. is a bad brings a further assurance at the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever
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. 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. rumors of interrogators using sex and hip hop music to get people to crack. the sexual act a very traditional. first of we know me personally know but i've met people who is happens they're skilled. it is.
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the. world it was under their child a lot of other things but then they sent in a girl who. will continue you know and she came up to me and started to talk. with them and she told me she could do many things for me so she started to touch me or 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 closer to certain spots then i had 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.
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just tell them that you want to see me. and then we'll arrange everything and after that and 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 for the prisoner's 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 above. part of the answer comes thanks to the album ghraib scandal in iraq. which set off a storm of protests and
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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 even in the. workforce to get a piece of paper like this which is called the evolution of interrogation techniques one can if these are techniques actually approved by our secretary of defense donald rumsfeld and if you read them you get sickened by 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 hour sessions remove prisoners clothes let them stand naked in uncomfortable positions.
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where. they also want permission under medical supervision to lower the temperatures in interrogation rooms. and take advantage of prisoners phobias. for example of prisoners fear of dogs. so here you have our circularly of defense forth arising the use of dogs and of course the word phobias is particularly interesting because that has to do with. their. just for muslims the dogs ironically would later have friends in the interrogation room when the new methods are implemented only the prisoners know and their interrogators the problem is that the interrogators at guantanamo don't give interviews with one exception tora nelson.
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