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Yes, Yet Another Gitmo Blog!

If the FBI memo read thusly:

Medical experiments are regularly performed on the inmates and are often subjected to surgery without anesthesia. The use of showers to gas the inmates to death is widespread and the crematoriums never stop burning the bodies of the dead. The inmates who do not get sent to the gas showers or used for medical experiments are worked 20 hours a day with barely any food.

Now if the memo read like above then I would think of Nazi concentration camp.

Or:

The inmates are showing signs of malnourishment diseases such as beri-beri and are placed into crates on a regular basis. They are mercilessly beaten for minor infractions (such as speaking out of turn, or insulting the guards) and often come down with dysentery or cholera.

Now if the memo read like above then I would think of Cambodian or Vietnamese POW camp.

Or:

The inmates are worked 20 hours a day in temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero. They are only fed a thin soup once a day. They are beaten for the most minor of offenses such as insulting the revolution or the project.

Now if the memo read like above then I would think of a Soviet Gulag camp.

Now the actual memo reveals the men in Gitmo are not being treated in a respectable fashion (as I would treat my neighbor, or as I treated my students in the UAE) but why should they? However they are being treated it falls short of torture and way short of a Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camp, or Cambodian or Vietnamese POW camp.