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Granma Daily - Feb 10, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art17.html

US Army Sees No Abuse at Guantanamo Base

WASHINGTON, February 9.-- The widely reported abuses against prisoners at
the Guantanamo Naval Base never occurred says a US Army investigation
released Wednesday that didn't bother to interview the victims.

The complaints of physical and psychological maltreatment of detainees at
that Pentagon's offshore prison camp, located on illegally occupied Cuban
territory, were filed a year earlier in a sworn declaration by Marine Sgt.
Heather Cerveny, reported Prensa Latina.

Cerveny said that Guantanamo prison guards had bragged to her about beating
detainees.

However, Col. Richard Basset, the chief investigator, said there was
insufficient proof to sustain Cerveny's accusations and did not recommend
any disciplinary action.

Cerveny denounced that in conversations with soldiers at the base she
learned about the physical and psychological abuse of the prisoners. She
had visited the enclave as a member of the detainee's legal defense team
working for the Pentagon's inspector general's office.

The Southern Command, based in Miami, argued that Cerveny's investigation,
which included interviews with suspects and medical personnel at the base,
found no incriminating evidence.

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