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Omar is a Guantanamo detainee (prisoner). He is being held there by the United States of America without trial, and he is accused of terrorism, but doesn’t even know why. To learn more about Omar watch the following movie.

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Omar is not the only person being held this way, without rights, without a trial, without access to any information, or even access to evidence to prove why they are being held. There are many more just like him at Guantanamo. For reference read an excerpt of an article from the Guardian, a United Kingdom (UK) Paper.

No Fairytales Allowed

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has 36 clients in Guantanamo and has visited many times. In this powerful extract from a new book he argues that secrecy in the camp is a disease.

Former “detainee” Binyam Mohamed [British resident arrested in Pakistan] viewed the whole military commission process as a con, a lie that was meant to deceive the world. In June 2006 the supreme court said the same, in more temperate terms, and struck down the commissions as illegal. It rejected Donald Rumsfeld’s assurance that the trials would be fair, accusing the administration of “jettisoning” legal rights.

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Hundreds of terrorist suspects have been kept without trial and investigation on the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. More than 750 prisoners served their terms there over the past period. And there are about 400 prisoners there today. Newsmen have repeatedly reported about humiliations the inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison are subjected to, about the ill treatment of prisoners, about the use of tortures and about religious abuse that have become the norm there. No accusations have been brought against them.

And this is an object of concern for the world community. Despite the existing decision on the establishment of special tribunals for the inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison, the situation has undergone no changes at all.

Halliburton to build domestic detention facilities

As the UN demands closure of KBR-built Guantanamo facilities, the Halliburton subsidiary was awarded a $385 million, five-year contract from DHS’s (Department of Homeland Security) US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build detention facilities within the US. The facilities would house an emergency influx of immigrants, or “support the rapid development of new programs.”

American Concentration Camps

Homeland Security Contracts For Vast New Detention Camps

For those who follow covert government operations abroad and at home, the contract evokes ominous memories of Oliver North’s controversial Rex-84 “readiness exercise bravo 84″ in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary “refugees,” in the context of “uncontrolled population movements” over the Mexican border into the United States. North’s activities raised civil liberties concerns in both Congress and the Justice Department. The concerns persist.

“Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,” says Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of its activities in Vietnam. “They’ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the “special registration” detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.”

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