The worst of the worst at Gitmo are treated better than American veterans back here at home. We’ve gone from the ‘torture’ of pouring water on three dirty Muslim terrorists, to allowing them to use Skype as part of their “Humane Treatment.”
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This of course only applies to those who Obama hasn’t already released from Club Gitmo already.
In the latest of many fringe benefits extended to the world’s most dangerous terrorists the Obama administration is allowing Guantanamo Bay prisoners—including a senior Al Qaeda operative—to speak with family via video chats similar to Skype.
The captives are “high-value” detainees locked up in a special top-security wing of the military compound at the U.S. Naval base in southeast Cuba. Two of the terrorists recently had video conferences with family for the first time since their incarceration, according to a Spanish news agency that identifies them as Abu Faraj al Libi and Abd al Rahim al Nashiri. Al Libi was the former No. 3 Al Qaeda leader, captured in 2005. His Department of Defense file says he’s a high risk prisoner of high intelligence value who served as the operational chief of Al Qaeda and had long term associations with Osama bin Laden.
Al Nashiri, also an Al Qaeda operative, is charged with orchestrating the deadly bombing of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in 2000.The USS Cole was the target of a suicide attack while the warship was moored and being refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed and dozens were injured. The blast occurred when a skiff laden with explosives detonated against the port-side hull of the USS Cole and tore a 40-by-40-foot hole in the side of the stricken ship. It was the deadliest attack against a U.S. Naval vessel since the Iraqi attack on the USS Stark in May 1987 and bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist organization claimed responsibility. Al Nashiri’s DOD file describes him as one of Al Qaeda’s most skilled, capable and prolific operational coordinators.
The two high-profile captives and their fellow terrorists will be allowed to have regular video chats with family, according to a Pentagon spokesman cited in the article. “We have concluded that increasing family contact for the High Value Detainees can be done in a manner that is consistent with both humanitarian and security interests,” said the spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins III. The Lieutenant Colonel pretty much confirmed that these types of perks will be commonplace for the terrorists at Gitmo. “We continually seek to go beyond a minimalist approach to humane treatment, and we endeavor to enhance conditions, consistent with security concerns,” Caggins added.
Since Obama moved into the White House privileges have vastly expanded for the terrorists incarcerated at Gitmo. In 2009 Judicial Watch, which has regularly traveled to Gitmo to cover the terrorists’ military trials, reported that U.S. taxpayers bought the captives high-tech laptops and computer lessons. That brilliant idea is part of a plan to reintroduce the prisoners into a modern society when the president fulfills his campaign promise of releasing them. They have been taught to send electronic mail and have received language and basic user skills training to help them find jobs when the leave the military prison.