Sunday, December 09, 2007

Make that seggregation


Pervasive changes (SOP) manual for Camp Delta, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba)

Language control

  • "hunger strike(s)" changed to "Voluntary Total Fasting" or "VTF"
  • "suicide" changed to "self-harm" (even though "self-harm" is elsewhere defined in the 2004 SOP as excluding potentially fatal behavior).

Chaplain

  • Substantial reduction in the Chaplain's role and powers.

Textual changes

  • "MP" (military police) becomes "guards".
  • "golf carts" changed to "Gators".
  • "Annex E Air Bridge Operations" becomes "Annex E/SIPR Detainee Movement Operations (DMO)".
  • "recreation" changed to "exercise".
  • "MSU", "Maximum Security Unit" changed to "SHU", "Special Housing Unit" or "seggregation"
At Wikileaks via Gifthub

Also on Gifthub: After Beliefnet, RuMurd looks to buy Wealth Bondage. Next up: Exquisite Safaris?

Guess he'd never buy something like StrictlyNoPhotography.com - even though it's more journalistic than most newspaper sites.

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