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  2. ************** DO NOT USE THIS HASHTAG UNTIL SATURDAY MAY 18 **************
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  4. #GTMO18 for #ShakerAamer Twitterstorm Package!
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  6. Objective:
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  8. Raise Awareness on social media about the 11-years of US and UK injustices, including torture, against Shaker Aamer, the last Londoner in Guantanamo. Over 117,000 people signed a petition for the British government to debate what action they are taking to secure the release of Shaker Aamer. The time is now: Free Shaker!
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  10. Date & Times:
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  12. Saturday May 18, 2013
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  14. Countdown clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130518T12&p0=179&msg=OPERATION+GUANTANAMO.+USE+TAG+%23GTMO17
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  16. INSTRUCTIONS:
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  18. * Copy + Paste these tweets. Do not retweet, the hashtag will not trend.
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  20. * If you are writing your own tweets, make sure to include the hashtag!
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  22. * Tweet every 3-5 minutes- avoid tweeting more to avoid suspension of your account.
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  24. * If you are reading this tweetstorm package early and would like to read up on your own (helps if designing own tweets), see the following for Background on Shaker Aamer.
  25. www.saveshaker.org
  26. http://www.reprieve.org.uk/cases/shakeraamer/
  27. http://action.amnesty.org.uk/ea-campaign/action.retrievestaticpage.do?ea_static_page_id=2339
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  29. * For general Guantanamo Tweets to use, see the last Tweet Set
  30.  
  31. ********************************************* #ShakerAamer - Tweet Set *******************************************
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  33. MI6 present at brutal assault and Bagram interrogation of #ShakerAamer #GTMO18
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  35. "They won’t let #ShakerAamer go because he knows too much and if he spoke out it would just be too embarrassing – for US & UK" #GTMO18
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  37. DID YOU KNOW #ShakerAamer is amongst 30 prisoners being force-fed? #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  39. “I am dying here every day, mentally and physically. We have been ignored, locked up in the middle of the ocean for many years.” #GTMO18
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  41. Are the US & UK scared of #ShakerAamer speaking about torture & complicity if released? #GTMO18 www.facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  43. #ShakerAamer was a witness to the torture of Ibn Shaikh al-Libi in Bagram." #GTMO18
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  45. #ShakerAamer "witnessing of it particularly relevant to my ongoing detention. Libi was there being abused when British came there." #GTMO18
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  47. #ShakerAamer “Send a team from UN. If u aren't scared of what they will see, get someone to come in. Or ur closest ally – England." #GTMO18
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  49. #ShakerAamer “You need to hand over the 86 people who have been cleared." #GTMO18 www.facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  51. #ShakerAamer “Send all of us 2 the Hague 4 trial.‘239 agrees 2 go 2 the ICC’. They will laugh 'cause they know I'm not a criminal.” #GTMO18
  52.  
  53. #ShakerAamer “"I'm not taking more water/medication if they FCE me each time. I would rather die one time, than die fifty times.” #GTMO18
  54.  
  55. #ShakerAamer “One detainee has lost 55 lbs, more than 25 percent of his weight, and they told him that he is now looking good.” #GTMO18
  56.  
  57. #ShakerAamer “I could not put the prayer schedule on the wall because it was so damp. It is systematic torture.” #GTMO18
  58.  
  59. Join 100 Days of Hunger Strike Protest Sat 18 May 2013, 2-4pm #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer http://londonguantanamocampaign.blogspot.com/2013/05/100-days-of-guantanamo-hunger-strike.html
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  61. #ShakerAamer "I don’t want to be paralyzed. I want to carry my kids when I get home; I don’t want my kids to have to wash me" #GTMO18
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  63. #ShakerAamer "I have bruises on my legs, knee, my arms where they carry me” #GTMO18 What action r u taking @David_Cameron
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  65. "I know something is going to happen to me, it’s scary. It's like a car race going 180 miles an hour, with a wall in front of you" #GTMO18
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  67. “I can’t read. I'm dizzy I fall down all the time. I don't call them, as it is humiliating." #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  69. #ShakerAamer “They step on ur fingers, ur hands, scratch u, even then you are living in fear when they say they are treating you." #GTMO18
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  71. #ShakerAamer “I haven't showered for more than 9 days. They say they're busy. I'll have to do it from the toilet” #GTMO18
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  73. #ShakerAamer had almost no water for 24 hours as they would not bring water. “For 3 days now if I say I want more water they FCE me" #GTMO18
  74.  
  75. #ShakerAamer "They had taken everything even my kids’ drawings. They ripped them off the wall. They took all my medical stuff" #GTMO18
  76.  
  77. #ShakerAamer "I might die this time, I cannot give you numbers and names, but people are dying here" #GTMO18 Act now before it's too late
  78.  
  79. #ShakerAamer "They are killing us, so it is hard to keep calm. It is hard to understand what they are doing or why.”#GTMO18
  80.  
  81. "UK may have a strong interest in maintaining what amounts to a cover-up either by keeping #ShakerAamer at #GTMO18 or sending him to Saudi"
  82.  
  83. “No matter how much I show you I am tough, in reality I am dying inside. If you want us to die, leave us alone" #ShakerAamer #GTMO18
  84.  
  85. "But they do not want us to die, and they do not want us to live like a human being. What is worse than that?” #ShakerAamer #GTMO18
  86.  
  87. How long is 11 yrs of a man's life if those 11 yrs are spent behind the wire fences and security towers of #GTMO18? #ShakerAamer
  88.  
  89. Free #ShakerAamer Ask Prime Minister David Cameron, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AG @David_Cameron what he's doing #GTMO18
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  91. Who is #ShakerAamer? Read up on him here: http://www.reprieve.org.uk/cases/shakeraamer #GTMO18
  92.  
  93. #ShakerAamer: Who am I? Do you know me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJ5FTYS4xM #GTMO18
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  95. Follow #ShakerAamer at www.facebook.com/SaveShaker #GTMO18
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  97. Watch 11 Years in #GTMO18 on #ShakerAamer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG-zbqdjqdc
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  99. @CarolineLucas urges YOU to act for #ShakerAamer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhcUY187ErE LIKE us at facebook.com/SaveShaker #GTMO18
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  101. Listen to Faris - son of #ShakerAamer - plea for his father's release http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9n2yTxYSpU #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker
  102.  
  103. "I want to hug my children & watch them as they grow. If it is God's will that I die here, I want to die with dignity" #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer
  104.  
  105. "I hope I do not die in this awful place." Help to free #ShakerAamer at www.facebook.com/saveshaker #GTMO18
  106.  
  107. “As of today, I've spent more than 11 years in #Guantánamo. To be precise, it's been 4,084 long days and nights" #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer
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  109. Cleared for release by President Bush in 2007 & then Obama in 2009. Help free an innocent man at www.saveshaker.org #GTMO18
  110.  
  111. #ShakerAamer “In the night ppl are dying from cold. In the day they are dying from the heat. Ppl cry from the heat & the humidity" #GTMO18
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  113. #ShakerAamer: “In 11 days, I have lost more weight than before and I am around 150 lbs.” #GTMO18
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  115. “I ask for water, you bring me FCE. I ask you for food, you bring me FCE. I ask you for medication, you bring me FCE”#GTMO18 #ShakerAamer
  116.  
  117. It’s high time that #ShakerAamer was returned home to his family in London. Plz subscribe @ www.saveshaker.org/subscribe #GTMO18
  118.  
  119. "They tied me on the board and they threw me in a cell because the medical people were busy" #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer facebook.com/SaveShaker
  120.  
  121. #ShakerAamer can't get medical attention without being beaten up. Want to help free him? #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker
  122.  
  123. #ShakerAamer can't get medical attention without being beaten up. Want to help free him? #GTMO18 www.saveshaker.org
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  125. #ShakerAamer: If demanding a fair trial makes me a terrorist, then we are all terrorists now" #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker
  126.  
  127. Pentagon claim UK in "no rush" to get #ShakerAamer out #GTMO18 @WilliamJHague @David_Cameron @AlistairBurtFCO
  128. facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  130. UK and US, the entire world is still watching www.saveshaker.org/subscribe #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague @AlistairBurtFCO
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  132. UK and US, the entire world is still watching facebook.com/SaveShaker #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague @AlistairBurtFCO
  133.  
  134. "We need to be 'in a rush to get him' as #ShakerAamer is being horribly abused " #GTMO18 @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague @AlistairBurtFCO
  135.  
  136. "We need to be 'in a rush to get him' #ShakerAamer is being horribly abused " #GTMO18 @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  138. "#ShakerAamer never committed a crime in the first place, all he wants is to be returned to his wife and children." #GTMO18 @BarackObama
  139.  
  140. "24/7 I have the ache of hunger." #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer www.saveshaker.org/subscribe facebook.com/SaveShaker
  141.  
  142. "I care for the rights of those suffering around me almost as much as I care for my children." #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  144. 11 years of detention and torture. No Charge. No trial. Never met his son. #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 http://saveshaker.org/take-action
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  146. Are the US and UK scared of #ShakerAamer speaking about torture & complicity if released? #GTMO18 @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague
  147.  
  148. "They FCE’d me almost every day for a year." #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 Follow @SaveShaker facebook.com/SaveShaker
  149.  
  150. "Ppl have been sending messages home, thinking they might be their last messages in this life." #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker
  151.  
  152. "Yes, they can break our bodies; but I think maybe, just maybe, we’ve finally learned they cannot break our spirit." #ShakerAamer #GTMO18
  153.  
  154. Actions this weekend for #ShakerAamer 17-19 May http://saveshaker.org/calendar #GTMO18
  155.  
  156. DID YOU KNOW #ShakerAamer youngest son was born the day he arrived in #GTMO18. Never met him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9n2yTxYSpU
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  158. DID YOU KNOW #ShakerAamer was witness to #GTMO18 homicides. Silence the Witness. No release. facebook.com/SaveShaker
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  160.  
  161. **************** GENERAL GUANTANAMO TWEETS*********************************
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  163. "Commissions are a joke. If u lose u go to prison for life. If u win, you're held indefinately (sic) for life."#GTMO18 M. Rahim al-Afghani
  164.  
  165. CALL US SOUTHERN COMMAND (305 437-1213) demand that General Kelly work to humanely end the strike, address prisoners’ concerns. #GTMO18
  166.  
  167. "The only option they have left, to say, 'We're still here, still ur problem. Are u just gonna let us rot here til the end of time?' #GTMO18
  168.  
  169. SIGN AND DONATE TO PUBLISH THIS AD IN THE NYT - http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1170/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13340 #GTMO18
  170.  
  171. "U don't get farther than ur throat, before tears start streaming down ur face. He'd never felt so much pain like that in his life" #GTMO18
  172.  
  173. "Both of my parents have died during the time that I have been in in #GTMO18. They were waiting 4 me to come home & now they are gone"
  174.  
  175. "I'm afraid my entire family will be dead before I'm released from this prison. I've no reason to believe I'll ever leave #GTMO18 alive"
  176.  
  177. Are you fasting in solidarity? http://codepink.salsalabs.com/o/424/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7140 #GTMO18
  178.  
  179. Al Kandari's father: "I wish that my son would bury me, I don't want to bury my son" pic.twitter.com/pqY6QNEAwr #GTMO18
  180.  
  181. The average detainee at Guantánamo has been held there for over nine years. #GTMO18
  182.  
  183. "It’s about stripping ppl of dignity. Humiliating them.Torturing them. Because these tubes that they put into the nose are too big” #GTMO18
  184.  
  185. “Can u imagine what this is like for a mother? To imagine my son in such a loveless place, refusing nourishment to protest" #GTMO18
  186.  
  187. “To think of my son painfully forcefed, breaks my heart every second of every day.Don’t they realize we're human beings,not stones?”#GTMO18
  188.  
  189. "Ensure's not designed 2b a longterm sole source of nutrition. Longterm consequences of getting all ur meals thru liquid supplement."#GTMO18
  190.  
  191. “Every competent patient has right to refuse medical intervention, incl life-sustaining interventions” AMA President Jeremy Lazarus #GTMO18
  192.  
  193. “something fundamentally wrong where not being charged keeps u locked away indefinitely + a war crime conviction is ur ticket home” #GTMO18
  194.  
  195. Help us reach 300,000 - SIGN the petition to close Guantánamo http://www.change.org/CloseGITMO #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker
  196.  
  197. Over 40 current detainees arrived at #GTMO18 b4 turning 20. They're now approaching 30. At least 16 of them cleared for release 3 yrs ago
  198.  
  199. Write your congressperson https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml and write your U.S. Senator http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC to close #GTMO18
  200.  
  201. Of 86 detainees now cleared 4 release, 40 once accused of being enemy fighter/attending training camp 26 of engaging in hostilities #GTMO18
  202.  
  203. “I have weighed myself today, and so far I have lost 42 lbs” Djamel Ameziane cleared for release yrs ago. #GTMO18
  204.  
  205. White House has a switchboard setup to take your call (202)-456-1111 Call & demand Guantanamo be closed #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer
  206.  
  207. TWEET: President @BarackObama @WhiteHouse keep your promise to #CloseGitmo. Start transfers today #GTMO18
  208.  
  209. "Their last hunger strike 4 most detainees.They'll never eat regular meals there again.They’ll hav 2b force fed, else they'll die." #GTMO18
  210.  
  211. CONTACT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Chuck Hagel (703) 571-3343 https://kb.defense.gov/app/ask) Transfer the men now. #GTMO18
  212.  
  213. ************************************ TWEETS FROM OpGTMO******************************************
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  215. Last November the Senate voted 54 to 41 to prohibit the Department of Defense from transferring the detainees. #GTMO18
  216.  
  217. President Obama talked at a news conference last week about closing "Gitmo." Didn't he say something about that a few years ago? #GTMO18
  218.  
  219. The President of the US is siding with the prisoners starving themselves to protest his gov
  220. Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/01/president-obama-sides-with-his-guantanamo-bay-protesters/#ixzz2Sf63efVS
  221. #GTMO18
  222.  
  223. People at Guantanamo (Like 2 tweets for each detainee? Who they are etc, from Andy Worthington's blog and Wikileaks)
  224.  
  225. Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif (12/27/75- 09/08/12)
  226. Alledged suicide. Held for 10 years, 7 months & 25 days. Recommended release in 08
  227. #GTMO18
  228.  
  229. Ali Abdullah Ahmed (01/12/70-06/10/06)
  230. death announced by the DOD as a suicide, same day that the deaths of 2 others. Held since 02. #GTMO18
  231.  
  232. Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al Amri (4-17-73-5/30/07)
  233. Reported suicide. Not charged w/any war crimes & never met w/an attorney. #GTMO18
  234.  
  235. DOD docs released in 07 reveal al Amri had warned authorities in 02 that conditions were driving captives to the brink of suicide. #GTMO18
  236.  
  237. Awal Gul (07/01/62-02/02/11) died in Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after nine years of imprisonment without charge. #GTMO18
  238.  
  239. Inayatullah, born Hajji Nassim (1974-2011)
  240. Held for 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days until his death by "suicide". #GTMO18 pic.twitter.com/GPjd0gINVG
  241.  
  242. Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi (1978-2009)
  243. "asphyxiation"
  244. Gov has refused to reveal cause, other than "apparent suicide." #GTMO18
  245.  
  246. Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi (1981-2006)
  247. DOD reported his death & those of 2 others the same day as suicides. #GTMO18
  248.  
  249. Yasser Talal al Zahrani (84-06)
  250. Captured at age 16
  251. wrote letter to his father saying 2 ppl seemed to be on the verge of death (1/2)
  252. #GTMO18
  253.  
  254. (2/2) and he suspected foul play. 10 days later, the DOD announced that he and the two prisoners had committed suicide.
  255. #GTMO18
  256.  
  257. Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned for nearly 11 years, the US has never charged him with a crime. #GTMO18 pic.twitter.com/en49Y66wcd
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