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| Guantanamo Bay detainees play soccer, eat well: US senator |
| Sunday, July 10, 2005 |
Inmates from the US-led war on terror held at the prison camp at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are well treated, play outdoor sports, and have access to a broad Muslim-approved menu, a US senator who traveled to the site said.
US Senator Pat Roberts, a conservative Republican from Kansas, said on "Fox News Sunday" that he just returned from visiting the Guantanamo detention site.
"They have a Muslim menu down there of 113 dishes," said Roberts, chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
"I saw them playing soccer. I saw them playing ping-pong. I saw them playing ... I think it was volleyball," he said.
US camp guards "strictly observe with reverence all of the prayer calls, five times a day, 20 minutes," he said.
"And in regards to the health care, my word, they have better health care than many of my small communities in Kansas."
According to Roberts inmate treatment there "is carrots, not sticks. We are treating people humanely."
Meanwhile the US soldiers guarding the inmates "are getting very rough treatment from some of these detainees -- and I don't call them 'detainees,' I call them 'terrorists' -- throwing excrement at them and everything else."
The US guards "are more worried about what's happening in Congress in regards to their future than they are the terrorists," Roberts said. |
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