The Guantánamo, Cuba, prison where the American government holds dozens of terrorism suspects. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times
Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast: Gitmo Detainees Get Russian Propaganda From U.S. Military
The detention facility’s most notorious terror suspects have only one option for English-language television news: RT, the Kremlin-backed network.
The secretive wing of Guantanamo Bay reserved for the highest-priority terrorist suspects is an unlikely place for Russian propaganda.
But letters from one of its long-term residents indicate that for at least two years, the only English-language news accessible to these survivors of CIA black sites is RT, the Kremlin channel that loves to broadcast whatever makes America look terrible.
Guantanamo officials would not comment on why RT, which U.S. intelligence considers a key component of Vladimir Putin’s global messaging, gets shown in Gitmo’s Camp 7. Inmates there include confessed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Another one of those cellmates is Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani. Apprehended by the CIA in Pakistan in 2007, Afghani has written to his attorney voluminously—displaying a Seinfeld-esque sense of humor unexpected from a man who was once forced awake for so long he hallucinated. But among Afghani’s observations is that he and the 14 other Camp 7 detainees are fed a media diet heavy on RT.
In a March 15, 2017 letter Afghani wrote, “It’s the only western news we get—and it’s from Moscow.”
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WNU Editor: If it was up to me .... I would only make a loop where these detainees will see nothing but "The View", "Doctor Phil", and "The Price Is Right". If they do not break down because of the View, they will be psychoanalysing themselves on why they cannot get the price right on "The Price Is Right".
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