Guantanamo prisoner alleges botched medical procedures

The Rumsfeld-Mengele connection: Guantanamo prisoner alleges botched medical procedures 21 Nov 2006 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay who needs a medical procedure on his heart said Tuesday he doesn't want it performed there because operations on other detainees have been botched — an accusation the base commander denied. Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman held at Guantanamo, "believes that two prisoners have lost their vocal cords after routine tonsillectomies, that a prisoner lost part of his leg because of a surgical sponge left in him which became infected, and that a prisoner lost a testicle from similar neglect," said Gaillard T. Hunt, his attorney.

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U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled Monday in Washington that the U.S. military is not required to send Paracha to a civilian hospital. Friedman said the government regularly decides how best to treat civilian prisoners inside the United States and judges rarely intervene.

Paracha last week was chained to a hospital bed, his attorneys said. A visiting cardiologist said Paracha must walk around for twenty minutes, four times a day, but security personnel refused to allow it, Hunt said. Paracha told Hunt that instead, he was transferred back to his cell, where he cannot be medically monitored and would be unable to quickly summon assistance in a medical emergency.

This whole out of country detainment program is going to end up biting the entire country in the ass. The Geneva Convention has been circumvented to allow free range for "black-ops" read too many Tom Clancy and Len Deighton books types.