Former Guantanamo Bay guard claims that CIA murdered three detainees and made it look like suicide.

Courtesy of News.com.au:  

A Former Guantanamo Bay guard has spoken for the first time about what he claims was a CIA murder of detainees, covered up as a triple suicide. 

Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman was on guard at the Cuban prison camp on the night they died, and calls the official version of events “impossible”. 

“They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose and hung themselves simultaneously,” the ex-Marine told Vice News in an explosive video interview. 

“In a cellblock where guards are ordered to check on detainees every four minutes.” 

There had also been an inspection of the cellblock only a few hours earlier, Hickman said, and guards had found nothing detainees might use to make the nooses and rags. 

Hickman tried for years to put the nightmare of his time at Guantanamo behind him, but eventually he was forced to confront his past. 

He has now written a book, Murder at Camp Delta, which he hopes will be a step towards finding out the truth.

And just when I thought I could not be any more disturbed by what the CIA did with terrorism suspects. 

If this is not disturbing enough for you trust me it gets worse.  

The three men were Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, 37, from Yemen, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, 30, from Saudi Arabia, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, 22, also from Saudi Arabia. 

Al-Zahrani had been imprisoned at Guantanamo since he was captured at 17. None of the men had been charged with a crime.

Now you may be asking yourself WHY the CIA would do such a thing, the answer is both simple and horrifying.

But why would the authorities want to kill these men and make their deaths look like suicide? 

Hickman says it’s because the three were regular hunger strikers, who incited others to do the same. 

“They had a policy that if a detainee is hunger-striking, he cannot be interrogated,” said Hickman. “In 2006, they were doing roughly 200 interrogations a week, so any massive hunger-strike would, what they consider, cripple the intelligence value. 

“I believe the number-one mission in JTF-GTMO (Joint Task Force Guantanamo) at the time was, stop the hunger strikes at all costs. 

“I think you get rid of the people that provoked the hunger strikes and you get rid of the problem. 

“After the deaths there were no hunger strikes for a long period of time.”

You know as much as I don't want to think that our government agencies are capable of this kind of thing, from what we have learned this last decade  they are capable of not only this but much, much more.