Military: (U.S.) Soldier injured in Cuba (Guantanamo abuse)

[ima_sinnic]

Military: Soldier Injured In Cuba
Associated Press
May 26, 2004

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Army confirmed Tuesday that a former military police officer was injured while posing as a prisoner during a training session at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last year.

But Maj. Laurie Arellano, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, said Spc. Sean Baker's medical discharge last month was not related to the head injury he received during training at the detention center, where the U.S. government is holding suspected terrorists. She declined to elaborate, citing medical privacy laws.

Arellano's comments came a day after Baker said he posed as an uncooperative prisoner and was beaten so badly by four U.S. soldiers that he suffered a traumatic brain injury, requiring a medical discharge.

Baker, of Georgetown, said the soldiers only stopped beating him when they realized he might be American. . . .

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_cuba_052604,00.html

[Nlighten1]

1. Jeebus H. Chrispies...

Can we put the "few loose cannons" idea to rest now?

[saigon68]

5. THERE ARE QUITE A FEW BUMS, BULLIES AND CRIMINALS

in the military

[Nlighten1]

8. Don't I know it...

[w4rma]

2. Insane!! (nt)

[UpInArms]

3. wtf??

But Maj. Laurie Arellano, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, said Spc. Sean Baker's medical discharge last month was not related to the head injury he received during training at the detention center, where the U.S. government is holding suspected terrorists. She declined to elaborate, citing medical privacy laws.

No, she said - we wanted to continue to use him for ____________, even though he had been disabled by the torture training?!?!?! Yeah, whatever, lady. Don't let the facts hit you in the ass on the way out.

[birdbrain]

4. Hmmm - that could explain the missing soldier

They shushed it up at the time....

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/09/27/gitmo.missing.soldier/

[0007]

6. Let's see if I got this one right!

Baker is a U.S. military policeman. Baker posed as a prisoner during a training exercise, and while during this training exercise the U.S. military policemen from another unit beat the living fuck out of Baker.

?

I find this story as strange as the Soldier that came up missing and was never found again and was declared dead while doing duty at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

?

And the the U.S. Military Chaplin that was charged with aiding and abiding the enemy and for stealing confidential files while at Guantanamo Bay. The charges were later dropped but a pornography and adultery charge was put on him, and than that was later dropped.

?

[saigon68]

9. ITS PRETTY WEIRD STUFF ALRIGHT

[daleo]

7. Sounds like "Mad Dog Miller"

Commandant of Gitmo, has been busy.

[mmonk]

10. They've gone insane

Our command (whoever it is) is mad. We need to turn the corner on this madness somehow.