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2007-08-09 Terror Networks

Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak

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Posted by tu3031 2007-08-09 10:23|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Saying "Bismillah" while sawing off infidel heads is the ultimate Islamic poetry.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-08-09 11:29|| 2007-08-09 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 There once was a goat from Khandahar
Who thought that I was a star
Bleet bleet said she
You can now let me free
But her fur was barely above par...

Posted by Detainee 1234567 2007-08-09 12:28|| 2007-08-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 From an old Pashtun poem Zakmi Dil (Wounded Heart) by Khushal Khan Khattak:

There is a boy
across the river
with a bottom like a peach
alas I cannot swim...

Posted by john frum 2007-08-09 12:31|| 2007-08-09 12:31|| Front Page Top

#4 There once was a boy from Riyadh
Who embarked on the path of jihad
But they put him away
At Guantanamo Bay
"Curse Allah, it seems I've been had!"

Posted by Mike 2007-08-09 13:34|| 2007-08-09 13:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Lets see, wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said something about "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible?" (He was talking about upper crust types hunting foxes in England

This is the bloodless (lawyers and academics) trying to humanize the inhuman (jihadists)

Pah!

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-08-09 14:34|| 2007-08-09 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL. You guys write your own book and we'll see who sells more copies.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-08-09 14:54|| 2007-08-09 14:54|| Front Page Top

#7 I missed this part...

About the Author

Marc Falkoff is an assistant professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law and attorney for seventeen Guantánamo prisoners.
Wow. Nuthin but the best for the Gitmo boys. An assistant professor. No wonder they're still inside

Flagg Miller is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist at the University of WisconsinMadison.
Whatever that is...

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean American poet, novelist, playwright, and human rights activist who holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University.
I wonder if he/she was a member of the Group of 88?

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-09 15:13|| 2007-08-09 15:13|| Front Page Top

#8 From an old Pashtun proverb:

A woman for business, a boy for pleasure and a goat by choice.

Posted by JohnnieBartlett 2007-08-09 16:19|| 2007-08-09 16:19|| Front Page Top

#9 They somehow omitted this one:

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
You're in Club Gitmo.
No Virgins for you.

Posted by doc 2007-08-09 16:52|| 2007-08-09 16:52|| Front Page Top

#10 HowlKoo for U

Time time time time time
Time time time time time time time
Never Ending WOOF!

Posted by Rink A Dink Dink 2007-08-09 17:19|| 2007-08-09 17:19|| Front Page Top

#11 As Galway Kinnell once observed (when I was a student) about e.e. cumming's poem "Private Olaf" when the protaginist swore: "this is some shit I will not eat", that it mean't there was some shit he would eat. We just have to eat this shit from the left or we can avoid it. I prefer that we don't even publish it.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-09 20:25|| 2007-08-09 20:25|| Front Page Top

#12 I wish, I wish in vain,
I wish I were a jihadi again,
But a jihadi I ner will be,
till my pro bono lawyer gets my sorry ass out of Camp Dee.

Posted by Phil_B 2007-08-09 20:37|| 2007-08-09 20:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Only 17 poets out of 775 detainees? Clearly we have not oppressed them enough.

Posted by Darrell 2007-08-09 20:40|| 2007-08-09 20:40|| Front Page Top

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