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This week in 2006, the CIA tortured 3 prisoners to death in a secret black site at the Guantanamo Bay prison & attempted to cover up the murders by claiming they were suicides.
Mani al-Utaybi, age 30; Yasser al-Zahrani, age 20; & Ali Abdullah Ahmed, were all murdered by the CIA on June 9, 2006 in GTMO. The official story of their deaths is preposterous; guards checked on the prisoners every 4 minutes. Journalist Scott Horton recounts the US gov's story
A detainee, Ali Saleh al-Marri, held in a US Navy brig described having rags stuffed down his throat, and then having his mouth and nose taped shut; a technique called 'dry-boarding'. Rags were also stuffed down the throats of the 3 prisoners murdered at Guantanamo Bay.
We only know about the murders of these detainees because of a whistleblower, staff sergeant Joseph Hickman was working in a guard tower at Guantanamo Bay; he knew the official US government story was a lie & went to the media.
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Joseph Hickman believes the CIA murders of the prisoners were likely retaliation for their going on hunger strike & encouraging other prisoners to do the same.
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Journalist and researcher Jeffery Kaye has also done important work proving there was a cover-up of the CIA murders at Guantanamo Bay. To this day, the three murdered have received no justice from the US government. medium.com/@jeff_kaye/new…
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This week in 2009, Seal Team 6 & CIA forces conducted a night raid in Afghanistan, dragging school children from their beds, handcuffing them & executing them w/ shots to the head. Other children were shot in their sleep. In total, 8 children were killed & 2 adults civilians.
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On this day in 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest ever mass execution in US history, hanging 38 innocent Dakota men. The execution followed sham military trials where they were found 'guilty' of the ‘crime’ of resisting starvation & their own ethnic cleansing.
The US forced a treaty on the Dakota, which pushed them onto land far too small to support them. As part of treaty, the US promised compensation, which never arrived. As a result, the Dakota were facing starvation in Minnesota’s long, freezing winter.
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