Something I’ve learned few Americans realize is that those who are subject to the most abuse at Guantanamo are not the detainees but the medics and guards who serve them.
This shocking state of affairs has been largely under-reported by media whose focus remains on unsubstantiated tales of torture generated primarily from released detainees and attorneys who represent them.
Much of my motivation for producing the book Inside Gitmo: The True Story behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay was a need to inform the American public of what exactly is happening to their sons and daughters as they walk the blocks of the Gitmo detention facility daily.
You’ll find these stories and more in the book:
- A young female Navy medic who was asked to approach a detainee she had treated in the past. The man grabbed her head, smashed her face against the bars, and inflicted such damage that she has had 16 reconstructive plastic surgeries on her face.
- A female nurse who while treating a detainee in the hospital was punched so hard that it fractured her nose. The detainee then shouted that “this infidel whore’s blood has defiled me. Bring me fresh clothes!”
- Guards who have a noxious “cocktail” of feces, urine, semen, spit, and vomit flung into their faces and who then clean themselves, change into fresh uniforms, and resume their duties rather than let their buddies down by taking time off.
- More than 400 attacks on guards and medics occur annually.
- Detainee plots to kill guards, and how one attack came perilously close to success.
- Riots in the hospital in which medical personnel were threatened with death.
- A returning National Guard soldier who is too embarrassed to tell his friends where he served because the reputations of soldiers at Guantanamo has been so slandered.
Do these stories anger you? They should. Levels of PTSD from soldiers and sailors returning from a tour at Guantanamo are off the charts. Vicious characterization of their mission adds materially to their stress levels.
Learn the true story of what happens Inside Gitmo.
Let us all be fully informed and put a stop to these outrageous stories about our service members. That way we can all support these brave men and women who perform difficult, thankless duty to keep us safe.
February 11, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Murtha and the horde like him are slanderous traitors and feed the fifth column in this nation. Yes I’m pissed, and I want action taken against the traitors. I want action taken against that slobbering mob in love with Obama who claim to be the watch dog service. Yes we have freedom of speech. No we do not have a right to slander the character of honorable men and women who are doing one of the most difficult jobs anywhere. They aren’t journalists or patriots. They’re advocates to ignorant ‘frothing at the mouth’ conspiracy theorists. Thank you, thank you, thank you for writing your book. I’m putting mine on order today. I thank Dennis Prager for having you on today so I could learn of your work and mission.
February 21, 2009 at 6:10 am
The first I ever heard of this was on Hannity tonight. I had no idea this stuff was going on! What’s wrong with our media?????
February 21, 2009 at 9:06 am
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February 22, 2009 at 9:15 am
Thankyou for bringing this to light. I am new to Stumble, and gratefully so or I would not know about this abuse at gitmo.
Where can I get your book. I am in Australia.
February 22, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for your comments, Diane. You may want to join the discussion group also on the site.
Easiest way for you in Australia – or anywhere outside of the US – to get Inside Gitmo is to click on the icon on the home page, be directed to Amazon, and order it that way.
Hope you enjoy reading it!