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Sh*t Hits The Man At Gitmo

Revolting reports detail detainees's abuse of Guantanamo camp guards

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Sh*t Hits The Man At Gitmo

AUGUST 2--We have a suggestion for the guy who hosts that 'Dirty Jobs' show on the Discovery Channel: Spend a few days working at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, where suspected terrorists subject prison guards to a revolting array of indignities, according to Department of Defense reports. Military personnel are regularly attacked by detainees who throw urine and feces, spit in the faces of jailers, and try to injure guards by striking them through their cell's 'bean hole,' a slot via which food and other items are passed. On the following pages you'll find a sampling of these Gitmo incident reports, provided to TSG by the Landmark Legal Foundation, which obtained the documents via a Freedom of Information Act request. The 400 pages of reports cover the period December 2002 through mid-2005. The vile assaults often end with guards having to be treated at a decontamination facility. A typical report describes a June 2005 confrontation with an inmate who scratched and spit on guard Damian Schlereth, and told him if he was 'Rambo, Jean Claude Van Dan, or a man, I would go to Iraq.' In a July 2005 incident, a detainee spit on a guard's ear 'through the crack in the plexi-glass and the cell' and warned, 'I remember you...I promise #2 (feces) for your mouth.' A classified CIA report, recently obtained by TSG, describes al-Qaeda organizing techniques at the Cuban detention facility and the difficulties U.S. officials have faced in countering these efforts. (18 pages)