Next up is conjugal visits with goats, sheep and cows.
Via Star and Stripes
Former CIA captives who were held in a secret prison overseas network after the Sept. 11 attacks will for the first time be able to have video chats with their families, it was disclosed at the war court Thursday.
The men being granted Skype-like calls include some of the most unsympathetic of Guantanamo’s prisoners — the alleged senior plotters of major terrorist attacks, including the accused 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Details were scant. The chief prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, called them “near real time interactive discussions.” He credited the change in policy to continuous evaluation in the Obama administration era of the circumstances of confinement in Guantanamo’s most clandestine of prisons, Camp 7 — where six men awaiting death-penalty trials are held.[…]
The International Red Cross welcomed the announcement, but family members of victims of the USS Cole bombing, frustrated by trial delays, decried it.
Sharon Pelly, whose sailor husband was on the ship and also suffers PTSD, said al-Nashiri shouldn’t get his call with his elderly parents until the trial opens — possibly late next year.
“He can wait as long as we wait,” she told reporters. She added that the parents of the 17 sailors killed on the USS Cole can never get calls from their kids.
The Red Cross will manage the families’ side of the calls. Family members can’t record or photograph the video chats. The Geneva-based organization won’t put them on the Internet and the public can’t see it, said ICRC spokeswoman Anna Nelson in Washington, D.C.