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Guantanamo Inmate Describes Force-Feeding

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Apr 15, 2013 at 08:34:00 AM EST
Tags: Guantanamo, hunger strike (all tags)
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Yemeni detainee Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is one of the many prisoners at Guantanammo on a hunger strike. He has been held for 11 years, never been charged with a crime, and cleared for release.

He tells his story in an op-ed in the New York Times, Guantanamo is Killing me. It's very disturbing to read. You wouldn't do a dog this way.

Shame on us. The U.S. needs to send these men home.

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    by lentinel on Mon Apr 15, 2013 at 05:43:31 AM EST
    just doesn't seem a way to confront the Obama administration on this issue.

    Obama never mentions Gitmo.
    It is never the subject of a press conference. No questions are asked about it.

    Perhaps this unsettling document will spur some journalists to do some real work and present information to the American people about what their government is doing in their name.

    There are... (