Two Cubas

Don Surber found an article in the Telegraph about tortured prisoners in Cuba;

Four dissidents released from Cuban prisons after 5 years of captivity showed their bruises and gave their testimony of the horrors they endured.

The AP didn’t report on it. The NYT and Washington Post didn’t report on it. I don’t expect the major networks to report on it.

Naw, the Washington Post carried a self-serving piece of garbage from two lawyers chasing ambulances in Gitmo instead;

As you read this, we expect to be in Guantanamo, meeting with the man President Bush mentions when he talks about the intelligence gained and the lives saved because of “enhanced” interrogation techniques. We represent Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah in a legal effort to force the administration to show why he is being detained. And this week, with our first meeting, we begin the laborious task of sifting fact from fantasy. Yet we worry it may already be too late.

We shouldn’t expect the Washington Post to worry about real human rights violations in that island prison, when two shysters can make up better stories to play to the ignorant and pliant readership of that rag.

From the Telegraph story;

Mr Castillo, 50, a journalist who wrote articles critical of the regime, told The Sunday Telegraph: “It was terrible. It was like being in a desert in which sometimes there is no water, there is no food, you are tortured and you are abused.

“This was not torture in the textbook way with electric prods, but it was cruel and degrading. They would beat you for no reason even when you were in hospital.

“At other times they would search you for no reason, stripping you bare and humiliating you. There was one particular commander at a jail in Santa Clara who seemed to take delight in handing out beatings to the prisoners.”

Mr Castillo, who claims he was denied proper medical aid for diabetes and heart problems, added: “We are nothing more than a reflection of the human cost of the fight being waged by the Cuban people.”

Compared to the horrors of Gitmo;

…he has gone through quite an ordeal since his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. Shuttled through CIA “black sites” around the world, he was subjected to a sustained course of interrogation designed to instill what a CIA training manual euphemistically calls “debility, dependence and dread.” Zubaydah’s world became freezing rooms alternating with sweltering cells. Screaming noise replaced by endless silence. Blinding light followed by dark, underground chambers. Hours confined in contorted positions.

Mr. Castillo was beaten for writing his opinion, Zubudayah was alternately hot and cold for facilitating the death and injury of innocent people. So which does the Washington Post give column space? The one with a pair of free Washington lawyers.

Category: Media, Politics, Terror War