Jeremy Scahill: "Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama"

by via Democracy Now

Tue, May 19, 2009 7:25AM

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 :Jeremy Scahill reports the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners including gang beating them, breaking their bones, gouging their eyes and dousing them with chemicals. This force officially known as the Immediate Reaction Force has been labelled the “Extreme Repression Force” by Guantanamo prisoners and human rights lawyers call their actions illegal.

Jeremy Scahill, award-winning investigative journalist and author of the bestseller “Blackwater: The Rise of the World”s Most Powerful Mercenary Army." His writing and reporting is available at RebelReports.com. His latest article written for Alternet is titled ‘Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama’

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