
© John Moore/Getty Images/AFPA detainee stands at an interior fence inside the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" on October 27, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and their defense attorneys are accusing both the United States government and Gitmo guards alike this week of infringing on the inmates' rights by conducting illegal surveillance.
Only days after lawyers representing alleged terrorists accused the government of spying on confidential inmate-attorney conversations by using hidden microphones placed in meeting rooms within the facility, the counsel for Yemen national Walid bin Attash said on Thursday that her client's private legal papers were improperly removed from his Gitmo prison cell when he attended a recent court hearing.
Bin Attash was appearing before the military court on Tuesday, attorney Cheryln Bormann claimed early Thursday, when his Gitmo cell was allegedly ransacked and legal documents were removed.
"The guard force was in fact seizing privileged communications," Bormann said, according to Bloomberg News.
During a heated moment amid Thursday morning's hearing, an unshackled bin Attash stood up in the court and spontaneously addressed Army Col. James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the case.
"In the name of God, there is an important thing for you," bin Attash said before being silenced by the judge.
Comment: While the Powers That Be want to remind us of the post-9/11 terror when anthrax was sent anonymously to members of Congress, we remember that the anthrax used in those letters came from Fort Detrick.
We also remember the Wood Green 'Ricin Terror Plot', invented out of whole cloth by British operatives:
Ricin! The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was