A reporter from the Chosun Ilbo was allowed a tour of the Guantanomo Bay prison facility in Cuba where many suspected terrorists are imprisoned. There is a lot of poor journalism in the Korean media and this is one of the best examples. For starters lets begin with this:

The camp is for obscure reasons outside U.S. jurisdiction, so not even American courts can guarantee their treatment. This is a blind spot of human rights, a black hole of international law. Flushing the Koran down the toilet is just one example of the kind of abusive treatment of detainees that has occurred here. There is no shortage of reports and condemnation from the press and international human rights organizations that have said the same torture and abuses that took place in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison are rampant in Guantanamo.

Of course it was proven months ago that the Koran was not flushed down the toilet but when you have an agenda why bother reporting the facts?

Maybe the reporter would have preferred if the US military treated these detainees like the terrorists treat US prisoners.

It only gets better:

While looking around the exercise yard, we heard a noise of someone beating the bars of their window. Inmates clung to the bars and were shouting something. A member of a Turkish TV crew translated: “They are cheating you. They are lying. Don’t believe them.”

The U.S. forces cautioned us not to be fooled by their tactics. They called it rule no. 1 in the official Al-Qaeda handbook: deny everything and shout that you have been tortured if you are caught. Still, the authorities’ own statistics show that dozens of prisoners have attempted suicide, and as many as 131 went on hunger strike last September, some of them refusing food for the last six months. According to the New York Times, the soldiers force-feed them by pushing a hose though their noses, often causing severe pain.

Yes that is rule number one in the terrorist playbook because idiot reporters from newspapers like the Chosun will believe them and publish garbage like this article.

As far a force feeding inmates would the reporters prefer the guards allow the prisoners to starve to death then? That is what he is implying with his statements.

This is how he sums up this garbage article:

We cannot know whether the inmates are terrorists threatening world peace and U.S. security or whether they are “innocent farmers” or simply citizens of foreign countries taken there without evidence. The international community is calling on the U.S. to release them and close the camp, but Washington insists that it cannot let them go until the war on terror is over.

“Innocent farmers?” Interesting because I don’t see countries like South Korea beating down the door of of Gitmo wanting to give asylum to all these “innocent farmers”.