2 Letters about GITMO

Off-topic
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So there was this letter in the Albany Times Union on 6/22/06:
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Consider the despair of Sept. 11 victims
First published: Thursday, June 22, 2006

Ruminations on the suicide of three Gitmo detainees:

Apparently, these detainees used clothing to block the view into their cells and bed sheets to hang themselves. That these suicides were simultaneous suggests they were tactical and calculated to achieve who knows (or cares) what result.

A lawyer who represents a number of detainees theorized with certainty that these suicides were brought on by the terrible despair resulting from the detainees’ indefinite detention. Perhaps this lawyer and others with a similar mind-set should consider the “terrible despair” of those innocents in the planes, in the Pentagon and on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

DAVID RILEY
Albany

Please discuss…

So then I wrote one, published on 6/27/06:

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Were detainees ever linked to 9/11?
First published: Tuesday, June 27, 2006

In a June 22 letter, David Riley dismisses the seriousness of three Gitmo detainees’ suicides based on the suffering and despair of the those killed on Sept. 11.

The Bush administration had not charged any of the three prisoners with a crime, yet there they were imprisoned for years, possibly tortured, with no hope of freedom. Does Mr. Riley have some evidence that these men were connected with the perpetrators of Sept. 11?

STEVE RELLES
Delmar

Please discuss…

2

Good point well made mate.

points of view like those expressed by the chappy in that first letter need a logic bomb chucking at them.

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And also to consider the propaganda that they might have been fed from thier governments (forgive my ignorance but I’m assuming they weren’t American) about the Americans. If we can do it, so can they. They could have been terribly afraid of what was going to happen to them. Or perhaps it already had …

Research into suicide suggests that people commit suicide because they feel hopeless and helpless.

Also overtones in the first letter of anger at thier suicide as that left David Riley unable to take his (country’s) revenge by executing the prisoners.

But I’m waffling and your letter was much better - short, consise and to the point.

Cathy

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Good man, Steve.

5

what if the government had have let these men free, and they blew something up. Imagine the sh*t that government would be in thenit would be a media massacre.

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People commit suicide in jail all the time.