Gitmo Manual Hits Wikileaks [Update: Document Added]

A manual detailing operations at the terrorist detention camp in Guantanamo Bay entitled "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" has apparently been leaked onto the site Wikileaks.

Whether because it's since been yanked or because of heavy site traffic, the link to the 238-page document is currently not functioning, but Wired has published a review of sorts (and a reproduction of one of the pages, illustrating the layout of one of the camps), along with a few excerpted globs of outrage now erupting out of the ACLU.

The Camp Delta document includes schematics of the camp, detailed checklists of what "comfort items" such as extra toilet paper can be given to detainees as rewards, six pages of instructions on how to process new detainees, instructions on how to psychologically manipulate prisoners, and rules for dealing with hunger strikes.

"What strikes me is the level of detail for handling all kind of situations, from admission to barbers and burials," says Jamil Dakwar, advocacy director of the ACLU's Human Rights program. Dakwar was in Guantánamo last week for a military-commission hearing.

Apparently, the torture has reached tonsorial heights.

Dakwar sees hints of Abu Ghraib in a section instructing guards to use dogs to intimidate prisoners.
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"MWD (Military Working Dogs) will walk 'Main Street' in Camp Delta during shifts to demonstrate physical presence to detainees," reads a directive in the "Psychological Deterrence" section. "MWD will not be walked through the blocks unless directed by the (Joint Detention Operations Group)."

The Wikileaks front page appears to be down too, so I'm guessing this is just a traffic issue.  If it amuses you, you can keep trying the document link.  Once it frees up, I'll make a local copy available.

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Update:  Here's the document (fair warning: it's a PDF and it's 4.2 MB).  This sucker's not so easy to get hold of - everyone discussing it is just linking in to the page on Wikileaks, which continues to be down.  According to the Wikileaks' Wikipedia page:

A copy of 'Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta' dating from March 2003, the protocol of the US Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, was released on the Wikileaks website on the 7th November 2007.^[24] However, after this news became widespread on the 15th November the Wikileaks website became inaccessible.^{[citation needed]}

No document hotlinks here though.  Just a fresh copy delivered clean and whole for your perusal.  If your finger quakes with uncertainty just above your mouse button, rest assured the document is mark "unclassified".  The ACLU's already decrying the manual as shocking evidence of American atrocities in Guantanamo Bay.  The more that reasonable people read it (which admittedly, I've not yet finished doing), the more credibly they'll be able to tell ACLU card-carrying pro-terrorists and other agents of related misinformation and anti-American propaganda to kindly cram it.

For extra cinematic impact, you can also print it out, bind it, and slam it on a table, demanding, "Is there no book. No pamphlet or manual, no regulation or set of written orders or instructions that lets me know that, as a Marine, one of my duties is to perform code reds?"

Update:  If you're looking for a quick reference on Gitmo hospitality, check out pages 218-221 (Table 8-1 to 8-5).  Approved detainee comfort items, violations and corresponding punishments, and authorized/unauthorized activities for prisoners of various levels.

Pages 131-132 (Military Working Dogs (MWD)) are also worth a look.  Dakwar said he sees "shades of Abu Ghraib" in the section regarding how to parade military dogs around the grounds so as to "intimidate prisoners."  "Intimidate" is a loaded word, because it's used in the Geneva Conventions where it has specific contextual meaning, but those disingenuously borrowed semantics aside, the psychological deterrent impact of harnessed guard dogs (released only to collect escaping detainees) is undoubtedly reasonable and effective.  Coils of razor wire atop civilian prison walls aren't meant to torture inmates with the thought that their guards may turn on them and start whipping them with the wire.  They're a psychological (and physical) deterrence to escape.  Just as the MWDs are used "to enhance physical security and as a psychological deterrence."