Gitmo: It couldn't get any worse than this!

No comment is called for in relation to this piece by Andy Worthington on Counterpunch:

"It really doesn't get any worse than this.

Candace Gorman, lawyer for Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan detainee at Guantánamo, reports that her client has been infected with AIDS. Mr. al-Ghizzawi explained to his lawyer in a letter that he was told about his infection by a doctor at Guantánamo, adding that he believes that the infection took place in 2004, when he was given a blood test, which "resulted in alarm amongst the hospital staff," although he was not given any explanation for the alarm at the time.

On January 28, Candace Gorman filed an emergency motion with the US Supreme Court, asking for the US military to provide urgent medical treatment to Mr. al-Ghizzawi, and also asking for access to her client's medical records. Yesterday morning, however, Chief Justice John Roberts denied the motion.

While this news is so alarming that it almost defies description, Mr. al-Ghizzawi's plight is compounded by the fact that he already suffers from tuberculosis, which he also contracted in Guantánamo, and hepatitis B, which was dormant before his arrival at the prison."

The travesty in what the Bush administration has wrought in Gitmo, and everything associated with it, cannot be over-emphasised. And this from a President who mouths platitudes about bringing democracy, justice and the rule of law to the world!

Read the complete piece here - and be appalled in every conceivable way.

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