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Lawyer: Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike Tortured and
Violently Force-Fed by Guards, Medical Staff
Scott Ritter on the Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy
to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter on Iraq, WMDs and the Role
of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s
Lawyer: Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike Tortured
and Violently Force-Fed by Guards, Medical Staff
We speak with attorney Julia Tarver who is representing
detainees at Guanatanamo Bay. She says her clients - who are
participating in a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment
indefinite detention - told her guards and medical staff forcibly
shoved large feeding tubes up their noses and down into their
stomachs, and used the same tubes from one patient to another.
For the past three months, over 100 detainees being held
at Guantanamo Bay have been on a hunger strike protesting
their conditions at the prison and their indefinite detentions.
The United States is holding about 500 detainees at Guantanamo.
Some prisoners have now been held for almost four years without
charge.
The hunger strike began in the first week of August. At its
height in mid-September, 131 detainees were participating.
In newly declassified documents, made public by their defense
attorneys, detainees on the strike claim that they were mistreated
by U.S soldiers. The detainees say that they were violently
force-fed with large, dirty feeding tubes and that the soldiers
taunted them, saying that the treatment was intended to force
them to end the strike.
Scott Ritter on the Untold Story of the Intelligence
Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein
We speak with Scott Ritter, the chief United Nations weapons
inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 about his new book:
"Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence
Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein."
It details how the CIA manipulated and sabotaged the work
of UN departments to achieve the foreign policy agenda of
the United States in the Middle East.
In a major article in The New York Times this weekend, reporter
Judith Miller admitted she was wrong when she wrote several
of the key articles that claimed Iraq had an extensive weapons
of mass destruction program ahead of the 2003 invasion. Miller
wrote, "W.M.D. -- I got it totally wrong. The analysts,
the experts and the journalists who covered them -- we were
all wrong." Today we are joined by someone who was not
wrong about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - Scott Ritter.
He was the United Nations" top weapons inspector in Iraq
at UNSCOM between 1991 and 1998. Before working at the UN
he served as an officer in the US marines and as a ballistic
missile adviser to General Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf war.
Scott Ritter has just published a new book titled "Iraq
Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy
to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein." The
book details how the CIA manipulated and sabotaged the work
of UN departments to achieve the foreign policy agenda of
the United States in the Middle East.
- Scott Ritter, was the United Nations' top weapons inspector
in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Before working for the UN
he served as an officer in the US marines and as a ballistic
missile adviser to General Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf
war. He is author of a new book, just out, titled "Iraq
Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy
to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein."
Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter on Iraq, WMDs and
the Role of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s
Scott Ritter, the former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq,
and Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist, Seymour
Hersh discuss the role of the Democrats and the Clinton administration
in Iraq during the 1990s.
Former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter,
and investigative journalist Seymour Hersh had a public discussion
Octiber 19th, in New York City titled "Iraq Confidential:
How We Got Into Iraq and How to Get Out."
Hersh is the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist for the New
Yorker who first exposed the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq
and is author of the book "Chain of Command: The Road
From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib."
We play an excerpt of the discussion between Ritter and Hersh
focusing on the role of the Democrats and the Clinton administration
in Iraq during the 1990s.
- Scott Ritter, was the United Nations' top weapons inspector
in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. He is author of "Iraq
Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy
to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein."
- Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist
for The New Yorker.
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