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Gitmo Guards Accuse CIA Of Three Detainee Deaths & Cover Up

Guantanamo Bay guards have accused the CIA of killing three prisoners at the notorious U.S. military detention camp in Cuba. Sergeant Joseph Hickman, a former guard, tells Radio Sputnik that the government’s version of the deaths of three Gitmo detainees who were found hanged in their cells in 2006 is not the true story. Sputnik reports: On the night of June 9, 2006, Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani were found dead inside their detention block at Guantanamo Bay. No charges were brought regarding the deaths, and all three had been engaged in hunger strikes to protest their unjust treatment. The US government claims the men committed suicide, but former Guantanamo guard Joseph Hickman suspects foul play. “I was on duty that night,” Hickman tells Radio Sputnik. “I saw a paddy wagon – we called it a van – which would transport prisoners. I would see that van take three detainees from Camp One and take them to a CIA black site that was on Guantanamo.” Hickman was in charge of 15 tower guards on the night of the incident, none of whom witnessed the purported suicides. “None of them saw any detainee hang himself in camp 1,” Hickman said. “They would have [...]