Guantanamo Detainees Tell of Abuses

Guantanamo Detainees Tell of Abuses
Published: 9/11/07, 9:05 PM EDT
By ANDREW O. SELSKY

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Detainees flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident in transcripts obtained by The Associated Press.

These rare detainee accounts of life inside the razor wire at the remote U.S. military base in Cuba emerged during Administrative Review Board hearings aimed at deciding whether prisoners suspected of links with the Taliban or al-Qaida should continue to be held or be sent away from Guantanamo.

The Pentagon gave the AP transcripts of hearings held last year in a trailer at Guantanamo after the news agency sought the material under the Freedom of Information Act.

Amid the tensions, the transcripts also show a few relaxed encounters between detainees and their guards and interrogators.

The military has said Guantanamo is relatively calm compared to last year. But a report released by the detention center last month shows mass disturbances are up sharply over 2006 and forced removal of prisoners from cells and assaults with bodily fluids are on pace to match or exceed last year's total.

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I'd be hostile and tense, too.

I think if I decided I couldn't take it anymore and was going to kill myself I'd take a couple guards out with me just to vent my anger. I'd grab one in a choke hold and MAKE them kill me...