THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose.
Al-Qaeda terrorists have threatened to unleash a “nuclear hellstorm” on the West if Osama Bin Laden is caught or assassinated, according to documents to be released by the WikiLeaks website, which contain details the interrogations of more than 700 Guantanamo detainees.
However, the shocking human cost of obtaining this intelligence is also exposed with dozens of innocent people sent to Guantanamo – and hundreds of low-level foot-soldiers being held for years and probably tortured before being assessed as of little significance.
The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
The disclosures are set to spark intense debate around the world about the establishment of Guantanamo Bay in the months after 9/11 – which has enabled the US to collect vital intelligence from senior Al Qaeda commanders but sparked fury in the middle east and Europe over the treatment of detainees. » | Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt and Heidi Blake | Monday, April 25, 2011
THE GUARDIAN: Guantánamo files lift lid on world's most controversial prison » | David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke | Monday, April 25, 2011
THE GUARDIAN: What are the Guantánamo Bay files? Understanding the prisoner dossiers: David Leigh, the Guardian's investigations editor, explains the files and how in key cases they expose official lies » | David Leigh | Monday, April 25, 2011
