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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:34 AM
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Gitmo has a souvenir shop
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=563791&in_page_id=1811


Greetings from Guantanamo Bay ... and the sickest souvenir shop in the world


The sands are white, the sea laps gently and crowds of bronzed Americans laze in the Caribbean sunshine.

They have a cinema, a golf course and, naturally, a gift shop stocked with mugs, jaunty T-shirts and racks of postcards showing perfect sunsets and bright green iguanas.


Only the barbed wire decoration, a recurring motif, hints at anything wrong.


Welcome to "Taliban Towers" at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulishly distasteful tourist destination on the planet.

As these astonishing mementoes show, the US authorities are promoting the world's most notorious prison camp as a cheap hideaway for American sunseekers – a revelation that has drawn international anger and condemnation.


Just yards from the shelves of specially branded mugs and cuddly toys, nearly 300 "enemy combatants" lie sweltering in a waking nightmare.
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there is a picture of a little girl wearing one of the t shirts


at the moment I can't think of any printable words to say about this
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