Saturday, April 2, 2011

11-03-30 Wikileaks on Guantanamo Prisoners' Medical Care // Cuidado Médico de los reclusos de Guantánamo // 关塔那摩囚犯的医疗



  • Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2011

    WikiLeaks cable casts doubt on Guantanamo medical care


    WASHINGTON — The Bush administration was so intent on keeping Guantanamo detainees off U.S. soil and away from U.S. courts that it secretly tried to negotiate deals with Latin American countries to provide "life-saving" medical procedures rather than fly ill terrorist suspects to the U.S. for treatment, a recently released State Department cable shows.
    The U.S. offered to transport, guard and pay for medical procedures for any captive the Pentagon couldn't treat at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba, according to the cable, which was made public by the WikiLeaks website. One by one, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Panama and Mexico declined.
    The secret effort is spelled out in a Sept. 17, 2007, cable from then assistant secretary of state Thomas Shannon to the U.S. embassies in those four countries. Shannon is now the U.S. ambassador in Brazil.


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