Gitmo Guards Claim They’re Abused By Detainees!
Posted on July 31, 2006
In the midst of the controversy surrounding a new maximum security prison being opened at Gitmo, guards at the facility are claiming the ones being abused.
The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.
Incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press indicate Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by “cocktails” of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.
They’ve been repeatedly grabbed, punched or assaulted by prisoners who reach through the small “bean holes” used to deliver food and blankets through cell doors, the reports say. Serious assaults requiring medical attention, however, are rare, the reports indicate.
The detainee “reached under the face mask of an IRF (Initial Reaction Force) team member’s helmet and scratched his face, attempting to gouge his eyes,” states a May 27, 2005, report on an effort to remove a recalcitrant prisoner from his cell.
“The IRF team member received scratches to his face and eye socket area,” the report said.
These are the dangerous creeps that our Supreme Court ruled deserve lawyers and access to our courts. These are the violent jihadist caught on the battlefield that groups like the ACLU think are entitled to our constitutional rights. I would be holding my breath forever if I were hoping for a statement from the ACLU concerned about the American citizen guards who are being mistreated by their prisoners. These are the actions of the “religion of peace”.
The reports state that these devout Muslims were staging riots, ripping their own Korans to pieces, and many acts of violence with fatal intentions.
“Detainee stabbed the MP guard … in the hand with his spork from chow meal,” the report said, adding the prisoner later “made a slicing motion across his neck” and vowed to kill the guard.
With many nearing five years in U.S. captivity, the prisoners “have a Ph.D. in being a detainee” and “know our procedures and they try to turn them against us and try to make us question what we are doing,” said Army Lt. Col. Michael J. Nicolucci, the prison’s executive officer.
“They’ll take the smallest things, be it a piece of rust,” he said. “They told us they are going to take that piece of rust and they are going for the jugular, they are going for the eye. They know what our vulnerabilities are, anatomically speaking.”
Meal plates, shower flip-flops, cleaning brushes and other items deemed harmless in civilian life also are commonly turned into weapons, the reports said. For instance:
_”Detainee in cell (redacted) grabbed the radio from an MP and then threw the radio at the MP. The detainee then threw rocks at the MP,” a Dec. 23, 2003, incident report stated.
_A detainee “reached out of his bean hole and attacked MP (name redacted) with a piece of metal foot pad from toilet striking him on the left hip area,” a July 15, 2005, report said.
_”Detainee broke off the top of his sink, subsequently broke out the window then began throwing the sink and pieces of pipes at the Block Guard,” a March 25, 2005, report said.
One of the most unusual incidents detailed in the four-inch stack of incident reports occurred when a detainee in the prison recreation yard assaulted a guard with a bloody tail torn from a lizard.
The detainee “caught the iguana by the tail at which time the tail detached,” the May 2005 report described. When the guard turned to talk to a commanding officer, “he felt something strike him in the lower right back” and then “saw the tail on the ground at his feet and blood was in the same area of his uniform.” The detainee said he was “just playing.”
Nicolucci said one of the most serious incidents occurred this May, too recent to be recorded in the Pentagon’s released reports. A prisoner staged an apparent suicide attempt while his inmates slicked the floors with human waste, seeking to overpower guards when they slipped, he said.
These are the people the ACLU are trying their best to free. Much of the attacks on guards were from the advantage given to them from having items of comfort and privelage that we would have been accused of abuse if we didn’t provide. They are provided with fans to keep cool for example. Can you imagine what kind of dangerous things the wrong person could do with a fan blade and an innovative imagination? Well, make sure to read the entire article to see just how that was achieved.
Like I said earlier, we will be waiting forever if we are hoping the ACLU will step up for the guards “human rights” like they have the terror suspects imprisoned there. However, there are some legal organizations that are hoping these reports bring out some balance to the ACLU’s smear campaign.
The Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group that fought to force the Pentagon to release the reports under the Freedom of Information Act, said it hopes the information brings balance to the Guantanamo debate.
“Lawyers for the detainees have done a great job painting their clients as innocent victims of U.S. abuse when the fact is that these detainees, as a group, are barbaric and extremely dangerous,” Landmark President Mark Levin said. “They are using their terrorist training on the battlefield to abuse our guards and manipulate our Congress and our court system.”
Though all detainees are foreigners, many are clearly Americanized when it comes to their insults and gestures. Male guards are frequently derided as “donkeys” while female guards are routinely called “bitches” or harassed by references to their breasts or genitalia, the reports said.
In all, nearly a quarter of incidents involved female guards, the reports show.
“They absolutely target female guards,” Nicolucci said. “They have a lot of cultural biases about females, and we let them know in our culture that females do everything males do in a professional job environment, and we just hold firm.”
Make sure to read the entire thing.
I’m thankful we are going to have some kind of detainment facility there, and not completely free these animals.
Do you find yourself muttering “we’re screwed” under your breath 10 times a day, too?
Also see: Oak Leaf at Polipundit.
If there is anything that will make us lose this war it is the political correctness, and pity party from the left for the enemies out to kill us and destroy our way of life. America needs to wake up before it is too late.
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Oh, I am sure that those barbarians target the women down there. I can’t imagine what it must be like being a woman and working with those idiots.
But you are right Jay. This is a good time for the ACLU to step up and come to the aid of the women guards.
Oh wait, they are part of the U.S. Military? Nah… that won’t work for the ACLU.
The ACLU is only concerned about terrorists rights, not about our military rights.
Sick Organization!!
Why are these terrorists allowed to have radios and all these other things that can be turned into weapons? I say if they act like this, take away any goodies they have, put them in a cell with a bucket and blanket. When they learn to behave, then they may EARN back the things than civilized humans know how to use properly.
I know, the ACLU would crap in their pants if we did that, heh
You have to admire a people who are willing to die or get injured for a PR stunt that will help their cause. On the other hand I see no reason to admire their cause.