the guantanamo guidebook

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Swedish TV 4 showed the British Channel 4 documentary The Guantanamo Guidebook tonight. Seven men were invited to participate, three of them muslims and the Team Delta Cadre was engaged to recreate the Guantanamo Bay interrogation experience. I must say that I was surprised just how realistic and horrifying this reenactment was. As the Guardian wrote: "Using statements from Donald Rumsfeld, information from released detainees and FBI memos uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act in America, the programme gives the clearest impression yet of what it might be like to live in a Rumsfeld jumpsuit. The most startling aspect of the programme was how convincing the distress of the participants became, even though they knew that they would suffer no real harm."
I think that the most horrible with this documentary is how well it shows the total lack of any value that the "evidence" extorted through torture have. These seven volunteers, who knew they would be free within 48 hours, were ready to tell the interrogators what ever they wanted to hear just to get away. Guantanamo Bay is an absolute disgrace for the whole western world.