New multimillion dollar contratc to Vice President Dick Cheney's Halliburton Brown and Root who built the concentration camp at Gitmo and the BLACK OPS ILLEGAL RENDITION TORTURE CAMPS IN EASTERN EUROPE - now to build Concentration Camps for US citizens on American mainland -- in addition to the ones on US bases that have been prepared since Col. Oliver North testified about the "Detention Camps" for American protesters in the Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings.  http://www.WarProfiteers.com/

Are the concentration camps being built now?

http://vivirlatino.com/2006/02/0.../02/0...-other- name.php

Yeah, they are building 'em, but that's the good news. Here's the bad news:

Lindsay at majikthise has synthesized this from the Guantanamo Combatant Status Review reports:

"CSRT documents summarize the evidence that the Government used to determine that a prisoner was an enemy combatant. The study confirms that the threshold for EC status is incredibly low:

55% did not commit any hostile act against the United States or its coalition allies

Only 8% of the detainees were characterized as al Qaeda fighters. Of the remaining detainees, 40% have no definitive connection with al Qaeda at all and 18% are have nodefinitive affiliation with either al Qaeda or the Taliban.

Many of the detainees are being held simply because they were associated with terrorist organizations, not because they committing any hostile acts

Some are being detained for being associated with groups that aren't even on the DHS watchlist of terrorist organizations"Association" covers a wide range of alleged involvements: "fighters for" (8%), "members of" (30%), by far the most common designation was "associated with" which could mean as little as having spoken to a member of Al Qaeda (60%), Two percent of the detainees who were designated EC for a nexus of involvement with a terrorist organization didn't even make the "associated with" standard.**

By and large, the Gitmo detainees aren't even alleged to have been high-level Taliban leaders or al Qaeda operatives. Far from being uniformly the worst of the worst (as VP Cheney characterized them), most of the detainees at Gitmo haven't even been shown to be enemies, let alone combatants."

http://vivirlatino.com   =Detention centers by any other name And a familiar name to those sensitive to topics such as "reconstruction" in Iraq and botched hurricane relief, among other things. I mean if you are going to be detained in a modern-day Angel Island, it might as well be a name you know and distrust: Halliburton The guys who brought us "Camp Delta" at Guantanamo.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.

The Army Core of Engineers claim that the centers will be used to house people in instances of "massive immigration" only:

"When there's a large influx of people into the United States, how are we going to feed,house and protect them?" Mr. Church asked. "That's why these kinds of contracts are there."

Yeah. There's already that large influx -- and "protected" from what?

Is this an indication of more severe anti-immigrant measures on the part of the federal government? I'm not the only one who's asking that question:

"It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal," said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami.

"Emergency relief" or a stateside "Guantanamo Express"?

Via / The New York Times and BoingBoing

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Ask James Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son", about Bush retaliation. Oh wait, he committed suicide. Now maybe he was headed there anyway, but in the DVD "Horns & Halos", he suggests that they'll come after him, just a month before his death.
===You and Redd and the commenters here are keeping me - and possibly others - from going bat-guano bonkers. -al scooter

I'm one of those others who is thankful for this blog. It amazes me what you find and how

you analyze it in a way I understand and remember.

I too use your posts as reference to call out my repug congressman. He voted against the

war in Iraq. (Duncan R-TN 2nd) I keep calling to ask him to speak out more. When his

flunkies tell me about his floor speeches I tell them I want him to join one of Congressman

Conyers' hearings or sign on to dem amendments. No luck so far but I'm like the ant with

high hopes. My day will come and either he does more or I'm going to work hard to replace

him.
====I read about the Gitmo report. What's strange is that this is not new information,

except in the percentages. I've known since early 2002 at the latest that many of the

detainees were turned over to the US forces for bounty, with no evidence of enemy

involvement except the say-so of the NA.