[IMC-UK-Features] [feat proposal] Obama, Guantanamo and the "War on Terror"

[anargeek]

Hi

Here is a proposed feature on the *amazing* Cage
Prisoners, "Two Sides, One Story - Guantanamo From Both
Sides Of The Wire" tour which is now in Scotland and ends
next week:

  Obama, Guantánamo and the “War on Terror”

  Former Guantánamo prisoners and a guard are completing a
  UK speaking tour to “mark seven years of unlawful
  detention, abuse and torture”. The tour, organised by
  Cage Prisoners stated in London on 11th January 2009,
  exactly seven years after the first transfers to
  Guantánamo Bay. Sami al-Haj, a former Guantánamo
  prisoner and Al Jazeera journalist was due to be one of
  the speakers but instead he joined a Free Gaza boat
  which fired on and didn’t make it to Gaza. By the
  Sheffield meeting, held on the data of Obama’s
  inauguration, he had been replaced by Omar Deghayes
  another former Guantánamo prisoner. In Liverpool the
  meeting “was held on the same day as the US president
  signed an order to close Guantanamo. Moazzam Begg was
  not impressed, and commented that Barack Obama spoke
  about ‘outlawing torture’ as though he himself had just
  decided to make it illegal: “It has ALWAYS been illegal,
  at least in any civilised country”" Further reports can
  be found on the tour blog.

  Tour Reports: London (audio) | Bristol | Sheffield
  (audio: 1 | 2) | Liverpool

Full hyperlinked version here:

  https://we.riseup.net/imc-uk/obama-guantanamo

Chris  

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