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Is GITMO the Modern Gulag as Amnesty would have you believe?
The Muslim secretary general of Amnesty
International Irene Zubaida Khan held a press conference to defend
her absurd equation of Guantanamo Bay with the Soviet gulag. She
said "The administration's response has been that our report is
absurd, that our allegations have no basis, and our answer is very
simple: if that is so, open up these detention centers, allow us and
others to visit them,"  Political purpose of Gulag: The suppression of internal
dissent inside a totalitarian state.
Political purpose of Gitmo: The suppression of an international
terrorist group that had attacked the United States, killing 3,000
people while attempting to decapitate the national government through
the hijack of airplanes.
Financial purpose of Gulag: Providing totalitarian economy with
millions of slave laborers.
Financial purpose of Gitmo: None.
Seizure of Gulag prisoners: From apartments, homes, street corners
inside the Soviet Union.
Seizure of Gitmo prisoners: From battlefield sites in Afghanistan in
the midst of war.
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Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Zubaida Khan told a
news conference. "Transparency is the best antidote to misinformation
and incorrect facts," said Khan, who is here to meet with Japanese
officials.The United States holds about 520 men at Guantanamo,
where they are denied rights accorded under international law to
prisoners of war. (Notice how al-Reuters simply states this as a
fact, without mentioning that the detainees are illegal combatants,
and as such, not entitled to these "rights.") The Muslim-communist
dominated Human rights group Amnesty defended its description of
Guantanamo prison as a "gulag" Thursday. A verbal feud between
Amnesty International and Washington has escalated since Amnesty last
week compared the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, to the brutal Soviet system of forced labor camps where
millions of prisoners died. President Bush dismissed as "absurd"
the Amnesty report, which also said the United States was responsible
for an upsurge in global human rights violations, and Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the description "reprehensible."
John Podhoretz amply demonstrates the sheer idiocy of Khan's
statements, with a simple recital of historic facts:
Number of prisoners at Gitmo: approximately 600.
Number of prisoners in the Gulag: as many as 25 million, according to
the peerless Gulag historian Anne Applebaum.
Number of camps at Gitmo: 1
Number of camps in the Gulag: At least 476, according to Applebaum.
Political purpose of Gulag: The suppression of internal dissent
inside a totalitarian state.
Political purpose of Gitmo: The suppression of an international
terrorist group that had attacked the United States, killing 3,000
people while attempting to decapitate the national government through
the hijack of airplanes.
Financial purpose of Gulag: Providing totalitarian economy with
millions of slave laborers.
Financial purpose of Gitmo: None.
Seizure of Gulag prisoners: From apartments, homes, street corners
inside the Soviet Union.
Seizure of Gitmo prisoners: From battlefield sites in Afghanistan in
the midst of war.
Story Credits: Yahoo News
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