Last week I posted Scott Horton's entire story about three suicides at Gitmo, which he claimed were actually murders. I prefaced this with the statement that Horton, being Andrei Sahkarov and Yelena Bonner's lawyer certainly absolves him of any Ramsey Clark-ist blame america first - bigotry.
Here now is a rebuttal from an equally serious source, Rowan Scarborough who works with Bill Gertz.
Here now is a rebuttal from an equally serious source, Rowan Scarborough who works with Bill Gertz.
Harper's Is Wrong on Gitmo SuicidesPosted 01/29/2010 ET
Harper's Magazine has topped all previous left-wing conspiracy stories on the Guantanamo prison by weaving a preposterous tale of murder and torture in what it presents is one of the most extensive cover-up in military history.
To believe Harper's -- and activist lawyer Scott Horton, the article's author -- you have to accept that three terrorist detainees did not hang themselves on the night of June 9, 2006, as the military said, but were killed by their captors.
The coverup, Harper's charges, involved the guards in Camp Delta cell block Alpha, the prison's commanding officer, the admiral who ran the Gitmo task force, the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and forensic pathologists for the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
The trouble for Harper's is that when its wild speculation is compared with facts, the Jan. 18 story collapses. The overwhelming evidence, to both the Bush and Obama administrations, is that the three committed suicide in a coordinated jihadi pact ordered by the terrorists' leadership inside the prison. They left suicide notes in their pockets depicting themselves as martyrs. The NCIS found other writings to that effect.
The Obama-run Pentagon and NCIS issued this statement:
"An article in Harper's Magazine on-line claiming that the suicides were actually homicides, and the NCIS knowingly participated in a coverup of those killings, is nonsense. NCIS categorically and unequivocally rejects these accusations. The Harper's article incorporates a great deal of supposition, intended to fill in where details are unknown to the author. It contains numerous factual errors."
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