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1 | ************** DO NOT USE THIS HASHTAG UNTIL SATURDAY MAY 18 ************** | |
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3 | #GTMO18 for #ShakerAamer Twitterstorm Package! | |
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5 | Objective: | |
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7 | 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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9 | Date & Times: | |
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11 | Saturday May 18, 2013 | |
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13 | Countdown clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130518T12&p0=179&msg=OPERATION+GUANTANAMO.+USE+TAG+%23GTMO17 | |
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15 | INSTRUCTIONS: | |
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17 | * Copy + Paste these tweets. Do not retweet, the hashtag will not trend. | |
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19 | * If you are writing your own tweets, make sure to include the hashtag! | |
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21 | * Overall tweet once a minute, though in the first 15/20 minutes, please do a few tweets every minute to help it trend. | |
22 | - | * Tweet every 3-5 minutes- avoid tweeting more to avoid suspension of your account. |
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23 | * 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. | |
24 | www.saveshaker.org | |
25 | http://www.reprieve.org.uk/cases/shakeraamer/ | |
26 | http://action.amnesty.org.uk/ea-campaign/action.retrievestaticpage.do?ea_static_page_id=2339 | |
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28 | * For general Guantanamo Tweets to use, see the last Tweet Set | |
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30 | ********************************************* #ShakerAamer - Tweet Set ******************************************* | |
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32 | MI6 present at brutal assault and Bagram interrogation of #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 | |
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34 | "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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36 | DID YOU KNOW #ShakerAamer is amongst 30 prisoners being force-fed? #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
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38 | “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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40 | Are the US & UK scared of #ShakerAamer speaking about torture & complicity if released? #GTMO18 www.facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
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42 | #ShakerAamer was a witness to the torture of Ibn Shaikh al-Libi in Bagram." #GTMO18 | |
43 | ||
44 | #ShakerAamer "witnessing of it particularly relevant to my ongoing detention. Libi was there being abused when British came there." #GTMO18 | |
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46 | #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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48 | #ShakerAamer “You need to hand over the 86 people who have been cleared." #GTMO18 www.facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
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50 | #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 | |
51 | ||
52 | #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 | |
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54 | #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 | |
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56 | #ShakerAamer “I could not put the prayer schedule on the wall because it was so damp. It is systematic torture.” #GTMO18 | |
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58 | 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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60 | #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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62 | #ShakerAamer "I have bruises on my legs, knee, my arms where they carry me” #GTMO18 What action r u taking @David_Cameron | |
63 | ||
64 | "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 | |
65 | ||
66 | “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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68 | #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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70 | #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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72 | #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 | |
73 | ||
74 | #ShakerAamer "They had taken everything even my kids’ drawings. They ripped them off the wall. They took all my medical stuff" #GTMO18 | |
75 | ||
76 | #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 | |
77 | ||
78 | #ShakerAamer "They are killing us, so it is hard to keep calm. It is hard to understand what they are doing or why.”#GTMO18 | |
79 | ||
80 | "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" | |
81 | ||
82 | “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 | |
83 | ||
84 | "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 | |
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86 | 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 | |
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88 | Free #ShakerAamer Ask Prime Minister David Cameron, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AG @David_Cameron what he's doing #GTMO18 | |
89 | ||
90 | Who is #ShakerAamer? Read up on him here: http://www.reprieve.org.uk/cases/shakeraamer #GTMO18 | |
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92 | #ShakerAamer: Who am I? Do you know me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJ5FTYS4xM #GTMO18 | |
93 | ||
94 | Follow #ShakerAamer at www.facebook.com/SaveShaker #GTMO18 | |
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96 | Watch 11 Years in #GTMO18 on #ShakerAamer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG-zbqdjqdc | |
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98 | @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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100 | Listen to Faris - son of #ShakerAamer - plea for his father's release http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9n2yTxYSpU #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
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102 | "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 | |
103 | ||
104 | "I hope I do not die in this awful place." Help to free #ShakerAamer at www.facebook.com/saveshaker #GTMO18 | |
105 | ||
106 | “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 | |
107 | ||
108 | Cleared for release by President Bush in 2007 & then Obama in 2009. Help free an innocent man at www.saveshaker.org #GTMO18 | |
109 | ||
110 | #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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112 | #ShakerAamer: “In 11 days, I have lost more weight than before and I am around 150 lbs.” #GTMO18 | |
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114 | “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 | |
115 | ||
116 | It’s high time that #ShakerAamer was returned home to his family in London. Plz subscribe @ www.saveshaker.org/subscribe #GTMO18 | |
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118 | "They tied me on the board and they threw me in a cell because the medical people were busy" #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
119 | ||
120 | #ShakerAamer can't get medical attention without being beaten up. Want to help free him? #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
121 | ||
122 | #ShakerAamer can't get medical attention without being beaten up. Want to help free him? #GTMO18 www.saveshaker.org | |
123 | ||
124 | #ShakerAamer: If demanding a fair trial makes me a terrorist, then we are all terrorists now" #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
125 | ||
126 | Pentagon claim UK in "no rush" to get #ShakerAamer out #GTMO18 @WilliamJHague @David_Cameron @AlistairBurtFCO | |
127 | facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
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129 | UK and US, the entire world is still watching www.saveshaker.org/subscribe #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague @AlistairBurtFCO | |
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131 | UK and US, the entire world is still watching facebook.com/SaveShaker #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague @AlistairBurtFCO | |
132 | ||
133 | "We need to be 'in a rush to get him' as #ShakerAamer is being horribly abused " #GTMO18 @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague @AlistairBurtFCO | |
134 | ||
135 | "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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137 | "#ShakerAamer never committed a crime in the first place, all he wants is to be returned to his wife and children." #GTMO18 @BarackObama | |
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139 | "24/7 I have the ache of hunger." #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer www.saveshaker.org/subscribe facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
140 | ||
141 | "I care for the rights of those suffering around me almost as much as I care for my children." #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
142 | ||
143 | 11 years of detention and torture. No Charge. No trial. Never met his son. #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 http://saveshaker.org/take-action | |
144 | ||
145 | Are the US and UK scared of #ShakerAamer speaking about torture & complicity if released? #GTMO18 @David_Cameron @WilliamJHague | |
146 | ||
147 | "They FCE’d me almost every day for a year." #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 Follow @SaveShaker facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
148 | ||
149 | "Ppl have been sending messages home, thinking they might be their last messages in this life." #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
150 | ||
151 | "Yes, they can break our bodies; but I think maybe, just maybe, we’ve finally learned they cannot break our spirit." #ShakerAamer #GTMO18 | |
152 | ||
153 | Actions this weekend for #ShakerAamer 17-19 May http://saveshaker.org/calendar #GTMO18 | |
154 | ||
155 | DID YOU KNOW #ShakerAamer youngest son was born the day he arrived in #GTMO18. Never met him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9n2yTxYSpU | |
156 | ||
157 | DID YOU KNOW #ShakerAamer was witness to #GTMO18 homicides. Silence the Witness. No release. facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
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159 | ||
160 | **************** GENERAL GUANTANAMO TWEETS********************************* | |
161 | ||
162 | "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 | |
163 | ||
164 | CALL US SOUTHERN COMMAND (305 437-1213) demand that General Kelly work to humanely end the strike, address prisoners’ concerns. #GTMO18 | |
165 | ||
166 | "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 | |
167 | ||
168 | SIGN AND DONATE TO PUBLISH THIS AD IN THE NYT - http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1170/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13340 #GTMO18 | |
169 | ||
170 | "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 | |
171 | ||
172 | "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" | |
173 | ||
174 | "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" | |
175 | ||
176 | Are you fasting in solidarity? http://codepink.salsalabs.com/o/424/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7140 #GTMO18 | |
177 | ||
178 | 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 | |
179 | ||
180 | The average detainee at Guantánamo has been held there for over nine years. #GTMO18 | |
181 | ||
182 | "It’s about stripping ppl of dignity. Humiliating them.Torturing them. Because these tubes that they put into the nose are too big” #GTMO18 | |
183 | ||
184 | “Can u imagine what this is like for a mother? To imagine my son in such a loveless place, refusing nourishment to protest" #GTMO18 | |
185 | ||
186 | “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 | |
187 | ||
188 | "Ensure's not designed 2b a longterm sole source of nutrition. Longterm consequences of getting all ur meals thru liquid supplement."#GTMO18 | |
189 | ||
190 | “Every competent patient has right to refuse medical intervention, incl life-sustaining interventions” AMA President Jeremy Lazarus #GTMO18 | |
191 | ||
192 | “something fundamentally wrong where not being charged keeps u locked away indefinitely + a war crime conviction is ur ticket home” #GTMO18 | |
193 | ||
194 | Help us reach 300,000 - SIGN the petition to close Guantánamo http://www.change.org/CloseGITMO #GTMO18 facebook.com/SaveShaker | |
195 | ||
196 | 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 | |
197 | ||
198 | 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 | |
199 | ||
200 | Of 86 detainees now cleared 4 release, 40 once accused of being enemy fighter/attending training camp 26 of engaging in hostilities #GTMO18 | |
201 | ||
202 | “I have weighed myself today, and so far I have lost 42 lbs” Djamel Ameziane cleared for release yrs ago. #GTMO18 | |
203 | ||
204 | White House has a switchboard setup to take your call (202)-456-1111 Call & demand Guantanamo be closed #GTMO18 #ShakerAamer | |
205 | ||
206 | TWEET: President @BarackObama @WhiteHouse keep your promise to #CloseGitmo. Start transfers today #GTMO18 | |
207 | ||
208 | "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 | |
209 | ||
210 | CONTACT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Chuck Hagel (703) 571-3343 https://kb.defense.gov/app/ask) Transfer the men now. #GTMO18 | |
211 | ||
212 | ************************************ TWEETS FROM OpGTMO****************************************** | |
213 | ||
214 | Last November the Senate voted 54 to 41 to prohibit the Department of Defense from transferring the detainees. #GTMO18 | |
215 | ||
216 | President Obama talked at a news conference last week about closing "Gitmo." Didn't he say something about that a few years ago? #GTMO18 | |
217 | ||
218 | The President of the US is siding with the prisoners starving themselves to protest his gov | |
219 | Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/01/president-obama-sides-with-his-guantanamo-bay-protesters/#ixzz2Sf63efVS | |
220 | #GTMO18 | |
221 | ||
222 | People at Guantanamo (Like 2 tweets for each detainee? Who they are etc, from Andy Worthington's blog and Wikileaks) | |
223 | ||
224 | Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif (12/27/75- 09/08/12) | |
225 | Alledged suicide. Held for 10 years, 7 months & 25 days. Recommended release in 08 | |
226 | #GTMO18 | |
227 | ||
228 | Ali Abdullah Ahmed (01/12/70-06/10/06) | |
229 | death announced by the DOD as a suicide, same day that the deaths of 2 others. Held since 02. #GTMO18 | |
230 | ||
231 | Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al Amri (4-17-73-5/30/07) | |
232 | Reported suicide. Not charged w/any war crimes & never met w/an attorney. #GTMO18 | |
233 | ||
234 | DOD docs released in 07 reveal al Amri had warned authorities in 02 that conditions were driving captives to the brink of suicide. #GTMO18 | |
235 | ||
236 | Awal Gul (07/01/62-02/02/11) died in Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after nine years of imprisonment without charge. #GTMO18 | |
237 | ||
238 | Inayatullah, born Hajji Nassim (1974-2011) | |
239 | Held for 3 years, 8 months, and 22 days until his death by "suicide". #GTMO18 pic.twitter.com/GPjd0gINVG | |
240 | ||
241 | Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi (1978-2009) | |
242 | "asphyxiation" | |
243 | Gov has refused to reveal cause, other than "apparent suicide." #GTMO18 | |
244 | ||
245 | Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi (1981-2006) | |
246 | DOD reported his death & those of 2 others the same day as suicides. #GTMO18 | |
247 | ||
248 | Yasser Talal al Zahrani (84-06) | |
249 | Captured at age 16 | |
250 | wrote letter to his father saying 2 ppl seemed to be on the verge of death (1/2) | |
251 | #GTMO18 | |
252 | ||
253 | (2/2) and he suspected foul play. 10 days later, the DOD announced that he and the two prisoners had committed suicide. | |
254 | #GTMO18 | |
255 | ||
256 | Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned for nearly 11 years, the US has never charged him with a crime. #GTMO18 pic.twitter.com/en49Y66wcd |