[www-features] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Obama, Guantanamo and the "War on Terror"

[Chris]

Hi

There is a truly amazing tour just ending in the UK of
former Guantánamo prisoners and a guard -- listen to the
one I went to here:

  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2009/01/419598.html

There is a UK featue on this tour and I have posted it to
the crabgrass group, it could do with some more links to
articles / protests about Guantánamo that have happened in
places other than the UK, it would be great if anyone
could add some... :-)

  https://we.riseup.net/www-features/guantanamo

Here is the text of the abstract, see the link above for
the hypertext version:

  Obama, Guantánamo and the “War on Terror”

  Former Guantánamo prisoners including Moazzam Begg and
  Chris Arendt, a former guard, are completing a UK
  speaking tour to “mark seven years of unlawful
  detention, abuse and torture”. The tour, organised by
  Cage Prisoners started in London on 11th January 2009,
  exactly seven years after the first transfers to the
  prison torture camp at Guantánamo Bay at date which was
  marked in London by a weekend of actions. 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 was fired on and didn’t make it. By
  the Sheffield meeting, held on the date 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  inauguration, he had been replaced by Omar Deghayes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 | Guantánamo Voices Tour Blog


Chris