Thursday, August 13, 2009

Gitmo's Caddies

Yeah, you see, no one was ever tortured by AmeriKa!

I think I'm going to puke on the propaganda if it doesn't stop soon.


"Ex-detainees working at Bermuda golf course" by Associated Press | August 6, 2009

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Four Chinese Muslims once confined to small prison cells as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo are now helping prepare the wide-open spaces of an oceanside golf course for the PGA Grand Slam of Golf.

Related: U.S. Tortures for China

The Uighurs who moved to the British island territory in June have joined crews working toward the October tournament, said Wendall Brown, chairman of the board of trustees for Bermuda’s public golf courses. They were hired on a temporary basis after five Filipino workers quit ahead of schedule, Brown said Tuesday.

“They have only just started, but they are doing what everyone else does, starting at the bottom and fitting in,’’ said Steve Johnson, who oversees landscaping and land cultivation for the golf courses.

The Uighurs - Turkic Muslims from far western China - were held in Guantanamo Bay for roughly seven years, following their capture in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001. The Pentagon determined last year that they were not terrorists. But their release was delayed because they could not be sent back to China, where they feared persecution for their separatist beliefs, and other countries refused to accept them....

Odd coming from a state that persecutes, imprisons and tortures Muslims because of the war on terror.

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