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Home Front: WoT
More Prisoner Mistreatment Found at Gitmo
2010-09-27
Detainees' diets at Guantanamo Bay have been a controversial issue for some time and now the U.S. prison is said to be rationing ice cream.

The frozen dessert is allegedly being tightly measured, with only one ice cream allowed for each of its 147 detainees.

Journalist for The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg, photographed a refrigerator at Guantanamo, with two signs reading 'DETAINEE FOOD ONLY' and 'Only 1 Ice Cream For each detainee!'

Rosenberg revealed: 'Found this fridge for Guantanamo detainee food in the rotunda of Camp 6, the most populous of the U.S Navy base prison camps on Sept. 23, 2010 with nearly 90 captives.'

The report comes after much debate on the feeding of U.S. detainees suspected of terrorism, where under feeding in the past has angered human rights advocates.

'Until recently the prison camps boasted on their website that they provide the 174 war on terror detainees with 5,500 -- 6,000 calories a day', Rosenberg wrote.
A early-middle age man with a mostly sedentary life-style (e.g., in a prison cell most of the day) would be expected to require 2,100 - 2,500 calories a day. If you give that man 6,000 calories a day you will fulfill the fondest wishes we at Rantburg have -- after all, a fat, waddling terrorist is slow and easy to kill.
But early detainees were said to have been barely given enough food to survive, while others later tried to starve themselves by attempting hunger strikes.

The ice cream rationing has now led the journalist to question Guantanamo Bay's motives, suspecting that it might be an attempt to reduce spending.
Oh, the Humanity!
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#9  From her picture, Carol's probably pissed because they won't have enough ice cream left for her...
Posted by: tu3031   2010-09-27 19:21  

#8  Carol Rosenburg is an abusive pig. She's had two formal sexual harrassment complaints filed by the military against her for her conduct at Gitmo, and seems to think she's the Alpha Male of the Gitmo jorno partisan hacks. Works for Miami Herald and McClatchy, the well-known repository of lefty assholes.
Posted by: Frank G   2010-09-27 17:41  

#7  More Prisoner Mistreatment Found at Gitmo

Yup if you look hard enough you'll find whatever you're looking for, (Whether or not it really exists.)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-09-27 16:46  

#6  Oh ... so this is neither Scrappleface *nor* the Onion?

Um ... wow. {walks off muttering}
Posted by: ExtremeModerate   2010-09-27 15:36  

#5  They've got exercise space and equipment, too, bigjim.

Gotta make sure they're ready to fight when Obama gives them blanket pardons and tickets for mainland US.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2010-09-27 15:20  

#4  Wait a minute! 5,500 to 6,000 calories a day?

That's about what I aim for when I'm on a hard core bulking cycle at the gym. Can't imagine what a lard-ass you'd be eating that many calories and sitting in a cell for 23 hours a day.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2010-09-27 13:54  

#3  Ice cream is un-Islamic.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2010-09-27 13:52  

#2  Well considering how they all scream, Gorb, the tenet about screaming for Ice cream is thus proven scientific law.
Posted by: Private Eye   2010-09-27 13:46  

#1  Is ice cream a basic human right now?
Posted by: gorb   2010-09-27 13:43  

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