Time follows Newsweek ...

... seditiously fires up the Forces of Hell with underwhelming Gitmo story ...

Time report fuels Guantanamo criticism

The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is drawing fresh criticism following a Time magazine report on a logbook tracing the treatment of a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Time's report on the treatment received by Mohammed al-Qahtani prompted a quick defense from the Pentagon along with outrage from several members of Congress.

Al-Qahtani was denied entry to the United States by an immigration officer in August 2001 and later captured in Afghanistan and sent to the detention camp at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay.

The 84-page logbook obtained by Time and authenticated by Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita is the "kind of document that was never meant to leave Gitmo," [The Ponderosa: Which is to say that it's distribution is illegal and Time's publication of it may be as well.] a senior Pentagon official told the magazine.

Citing the logbook, which covers al-Qahtani's interrogations from November 2002 to January 2003, Time reports that daily interviews began at 4 a.m. and sometimes continued until midnight.

The interrogation techniques included refusing al-Qahtani a bathroom break and forcing him to urinate in his pants.

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska was among those criticizing such metholds.

"It's not appropriate," Hagel said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition." "It's not at all within the standards of who we are as a civilized people, what our laws are.

"If in fact we are treating prisoners this way, it's not only wrong, it's dangerous and very dumb and very shortsighted," Hagel said.

"This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world."

In an interview set to air Monday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," Vice President Dick Cheney said there was presently no plans to close Guantanamo Bay.

"The president says we review all of our options on a continuous basis," Cheney said. "The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people."

During the period covered by the logbook, Time reported, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 16 additional interrogation techniques for use on certain detainees.

Afterward, interrogators began their sessions with al-Qahtani at midnight and awakened him with dripping water or Christina Aguilera music [The Ponderosa: Ok, that does skirt the limits of what is acceptable!] if he dozed off, the magazine article reported.

The magazine said the techniques approved by Rumsfeld included "standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair" and hanging "pictures of scantily clad women around his neck."

Hagel said such treatment should offend the sensibilities of "any straight-thinking American, any straight-thinking citizen of the world." [The Ponderosa: Well, we never claimed to be citizens of the world. Perhaps if Mars actually does attack ... ]

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Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, defended the Guantanamo facility and flatly rejected suggestions that prisoners are mistreated.

"I think that's accepting a falsehood and giving to the American people that somehow we don't treat prisoners right," said Hunter, a Republican from California.

Hunter cited a menu of food served to prisoners Sunday -- including oven-fried chicken, rice pilaf, fruit and pita bread -- as a sign that they are treated well. [The Ponderosa: SAY WHAT?!?]

"These are the people who tried to kill us," he said. "It includes the guy -- the 20th hijacker, that was Mr. Qahtani who was caught coming in -- who didn't make it to the planes that drove into New York," Hunter said following an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."

Earlier on the program, Hunter said the "legend" of Guantanamo Bay is "different than the fact" [The Ponderosa: Similar to the many legends of the Patriot Act.]
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Not noted in this write up is how a female soldier straddled a prone Al-Qahtani for several minutes. Not sure how this can be considered torture as it seems we recall Atta and his gang paying big bucks for lap dances the night before they took up residence on prime real estate in Hell ...

So, a shred of human debris, intent on the slaughter of thousands of us peed his pants and had to endure really bad music. Big fricking whoop.

We're not sure of Time's motivation in publishing this non-story. At best they were attempting to smear the Administration; at worst, they hoped to stir up the Jihadists. If you've any doubt as to how the enemy press would play this story, witness this headline from al Jazeera:

More Gitmo torture practices revealed - Report

Thank you, Time Magazine.

A couple weeks ago, Newsweek published unverified tales of Koran flushing by evil US servicemen -- you know, the dudes protecting our pansy asses. According to a report from Brigadier General Jay Hood -- commissioned by the US military -- most, if not all, incidents of "mistreatement" of the Koran by US personnel were inadvertent.

Indeed, the main desecrators (including flushing) of the Koran were PRISONERS! Our guys are made to handle the Koran with gloves (because we're dirty) and made to observe strict rules while examing the books for contraband! THIS is the real scandal in all of this.

We give these bastards "religiously correct" meals, prayer mats, Korans in several languages ... Imagine in WWII giving German POWs copies of "Mein Kampf"? And we're worried about the mistreatment of the book that empowers them to slaughter, not only us, but "infidels" in mosques in Afghanistan -- where presumably hundreds of Korans are present. This is insanity!

Finally, we have the recent borderline traitorous remarks by
batty Illinois Senator Dick Durbin:

On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. ..... On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.

Uh, Senator, if you read this and asked us who was reading it to us, we'd reply "someone from Shamnesty International?"

Nazis? Soviets? Where is the media outrage over this? Oh, right, Durbin is a protected minority -- a Senate Democrat.

DICK has taken the "loyal opposition's" Bush-hatred to the extreme: calmunying the men and women who shield raving moonbats from the likes of Mohammed al-Qahtani. Rest assured, the aggrieved victim and his pals harbor no soft spot for gays, pornographers and abortionists. Ya think "white Christians" are a nuisance? All we do is disapprove. These dudes would do to your bathhouses what they did to that mosque in Afghanistan. We're ALL infidels -- get it?

This is the state of the Left in America, 2005. Such is their hatred for the president that they are actually interceding on the behalf of vermin. Half the nation seems to have the stomach to fight the Terror War. The other half either doesn't recognize the threat or truly believes we deserve to lose.

"Loyal opposition" our shiny metal asses!