And speaking of detainees....

Eleven Kuwaiti prisoners held by American forces at the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base show signs of poor diet and physical and psychological abuse, and are held in conditions "worse than those for the worst convicted murderers or rapists in the United States," according to an attorney who recently visited them at the detention facility in Cuba.

The attorney, Thomas Wilner, said he believes that while conditions for detainees have improved in recent months, physical mistreatment has continued even after a Dec. 30 government memo renounced the use of torture. "I believe there still is some physical abuse," he said.

Wilner declined to be more specific, citing an agreement with the government that everything prisoners told them about their own specific circumstances is classified unless cleared by censors.

The agreement was a condition of Wilner and other lawyers receiving Defense Department approval for unmonitored meetings with the detainees, he said.

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"Compared to these men, Charles Manson is living in a palace, and these men have been convicted of nothing," Wilner said in a reference to the convicted California murderer.

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All of the Kuwaitis say they are innocent of terrorist activity and none has been charged with a crime.

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In a written statement, the Defense Department disputed Wilner's assertions.

Detainees receive three "culturally appropriate meals ... and daily opportunities for prayer, showers, exercise, means to send and receive mail, reading materials and exceptional medical attention," according to the statement.

"DoD takes all allegations of abuse very seriously and would investigate fully any such allegation," the statement said.
  Herald Today article

You know, I could swear that's the exact same thing they said about Abu Ghraib when human rights organizations were first complaining about prisoner conditions there.