UN Springs Into Action, Denounces US

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Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 8:45 am PST • Views: 146

The United Nations, disgusting as always, issued a call to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and set free all the prisoners. Among other things, they’re upset because the US has force-fed some hunger strikers. Letting them starve themselves to death would have been better?

But to really finish this story off in glorious United Nations fashion, the UN’s “investigators” actually refused to visit Guantanamo themselves, relying instead on the statements of released prisoners and their lawyers.

The experts cancelled a planned visit to the camp last year because the United States refused to give them free access to all prisoners.

They based their report on US government answers to a questionnaire, plus interviews with former inmates in Britain, France and Spain, and lawyers for some detainees.

“The United Nations should be making serious investigations across the world, and there are many instances in which they do when it comes to human rights. This was not one of them,” said spokesman Scott McClellan.

“And I think it’s a discredit to the UN when a team like this goes about rushing to report something when they haven’t even looked into the facts, all they’ve done is look at the allegations,” he told reporters.

“We know that these are dangerous terrorists being kept at Guantanamo Bay,” he said. “I think that what we are seeing is a rehash of allegations that have been made by lawyers representing some of these detainees.”

McClellan said Al-Qaeda detainees were “trained to provide false information,” including allegations of torture.

These UN “experts” are well aware that jihadis are trained to lie for propaganda purposes.

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