Michael Ratner: January 11th, here we are. We’ve completed ten years after 9-11, going into the cheap windows 7 download eleventh year. The tenth anniversary of Guantanamo opening. On the cheap windows 7 download actual annivesary, January 11th, I will be in London commemorating the cheap windows 7 download opening of Guantanamo with other lawyers but particularly with men who cheap windows 7 download have been freed from Guantanamo, a group called Caged Prisoners.Commemorating the cheap windows 7 download 11th year of the practices that underlie imprisonment at Guantanamo: the cheap windows 7 download capture of detainees anywhere in the world or their kidnapping; their imprisonment indefinitely or cheap windows 7 download forever under a preventive detention scheme; and their trials, if at all, by rump trials or cheap windows 7 download military commissions. Here we are, the Guantanamo Syndrome — that cheap windows 7 download series of illnesses, sickness and outrage that represent both Republican and cheap windows 7 download Democratic administrations are still with us.I’m commemorating it cheap windows 7 download with a group set up after Guantanamo, set up by some of the cheap windows 7 download very people who were formerly impisoned in Guantanamo, a group called Caged Prisoners. And I’m in London going through three days of commemoration of not just those who cheap windows 7 download remain in Guantanamo, but of those who remain in secret prisons all over the cheap windows 7 download world, particularly Bagram.I’m with a number of the people who have been freed — freed from Guantanamo,  for example, Moazzam Begg.   I’m with him today in London  and cheap windows 7 download his story actually tells us a lot about what happened at Guantanamo. I met Moazzam Begg in in the cheap windows 7 download United Kingdom. He’d been cheap windows 7 download freed because of the huge amount of efforts by the British citizens — led by the Redgraves [the late Corin Redgrave and his sister Vanessa Redgrave of the British acting family dynasty] in particular and other efforts  to cheap windows 7 download get the British citizens out of there.I met a group of detainees known as the cheap windows 7 download Tipton 3 in 2004. When  I walked into the cheap windows 7 download room, I remember it like it was yesterday, here were these young men — I mean they were young like my own children in a way — and cheap windows 7 download the idea that these three men were ever kept in Guantanamo as the cheap windows 7 download ‘worst of the worst’ or ‘terrorists’ just struck me as completely impossible. They could joke with me, they could tell the cheap windows 7 download stories of what happened, they could talk about Guantanamo, they could talk about their own lives and, of course, they were kept in Guantanamo after being picked up in Pakistan and cheap windows 7 download forced to give ‘confessions’ when cheap windows 7 download they were at Guantanamo.They figured when they were at Guantanamo that cheap windows 7 download after they were being tortured in various ways that they were better off just saying, ‘Yeah, we knew Osama bin Laden, etc.’ And they thought it cheap windows 7 download would go better for them but of course it went worse. And even though they had cheap windows 7 download alibis of where they were at the time and why they were in Afghanistan — and good ones, correct ones — the government forced these ‘confessions’ out of them under torture and cheap windows 7 download kept them there year after year. When I met them, they talked about the cheap windows 7 download torture.And when I talk to you, our listeners, about it, you cheap windows 7 download have to understand that when I met them, no one knew publicly what cheap windows 7 download was going on in Guantanamo, there’d been cheap windows 7 download no access to Guantanamo. But there was the testimony of the cheap windows 7 download Tipton Three. And everybody said, ‘Oh, they’re lying, they’re not telling the cheap windows 7 download truth.In the room with me that day, they went over what’s called a “Rumsfeld Technique.” Those are cheap windows 7 download what we now know are everything from hooding, stripping, dogs, sexual assault — all these kind of terrible things that cheap windows 7 download Rumsfeld Techniques did to people at Guantanamo as a means of coercing what cheap windows 7 download turned out to be false confessions out of people. And I sat there and cheap windows 7 download I believed them. But I had trouble believing it because, of course, I’d always looked at Guantanamo as a cheap windows 7 download horrible place because it was incommunicado detention — we couldn’t get them into court to test their detentions, we couldn’t get them lawyers, we couldn’t visit — and cheap windows 7 download I looked at that as the worst aspect. And while I suspected that cheap windows 7 download there might be interrogation issues, I didn’t realize that cheap windows 7 download there would be abuse amounting or equivalent to torture.Was I naive in that cheap windows 7 download respect? Possibly so. But of course within a cheap windows 7 download couple of months after my interview with the Guantanamo Three or cheap windows 7 download the Tipton Three, the Abu Ghraib photos came out on April 24th of 2004 and cheap windows 7 download then, of course, it was public for everybody. The Rumfseld Techniques came out and cheap windows 7 download then the Tipton Three’s testimony — that people had said, ‘Oh, we don’t believe it’ — was proven to cheap windows 7 download be utterly, utterly accurate to the actual use of the Rumsfeld Techniques, the cheap windows 7 download dozen techniques.And so then Guantanamo became synonymous not just with incommunicado detention but with torture as well.Today, of course, Guantanamo is cheap windows 7 download still there. And as we talk about Guantanamo, I want to cheap windows 7 download give people the numbers. Guantanamo is still there. 171 men remain in Guantanamo. 46 have cheap windows 7 download been approved — whatever that means — for cheap windows 7 download indefinite detention and will be there forever as far as I know. 36 men have cheap windows 7 download been referred for prosecution.(4 of those have been convicted)  What kind of prosecution? Most likely military commissions which are cheap windows 7 download just rump courts which are just rump trials for nothing.The remainder? Not clear. But most of the cheap windows 7 download remainder have been approved for release.So that means the remainder shouldn’t be cheap windows 7 download there at all. People like the Uighurs from western China who cheap windows 7 download were picked up wrongly — admittedly wrongly — and cheap windows 7 download have now been there for ten years and will be going on I don’t know how many years. So that cheap windows 7 download total is about 89 people, most of whom have been approved for cheap windows 7 download transfer. So of those 89  none of them should be there. So there’s our numbers again. 46 indefinitely detained forever, 36 supposedly subject to cheap windows 7 download prosecution and 89 who shouldn’t be there at all — or cheap windows 7 download most of whom should not be there at all, some of whom they may not have cheap windows 7 download decided yet. That’s Guantanamo today.Michael RatnerCenter for Constitutional RightsSent from my iPad