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Guantanamo 'fun' blog is censored

Evening Standard
2 Apr 2009


A post on the Miss Universe website from Miss Venezuela describing "having fun" at Guantanamo Bay has been taken down.

Dayana Mendoza, 22, wrote: "We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and it was a loooot of fun!" and "the water in Guantanamo Bay is soooo beautiful!" She described the detention centre as "very interesting".

Some Venezuelans said she had harmed their country's image by speaking positively about Guantanamo, where 240 men are in custody.

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O I'm sure its wonderful"Stan ex-London,USA"thay should be grateful to the USA for your hospitality,to be taken from there homes in another country and flown to other lovely prisons in various countries were torture is done on your behalf and then flown to the idyllic accommodation on a nice little island and held with out trial by the US military,how ungrateful are thay? O if only i could be renditioned to Guantanamo! i would be forever in your dept

- Kev, London-UK, 02/04/2009 21:00
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"said she had harmed their country's image by speaking positively about Guantanamo"

At least she'd been there and seen it rather than spouting the PC line !

A Belgian gov't minister said it was a better facility than anything in Belgium.

- Stan Ex-London, USA, 02/04/2009 16:21
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Can I have a 'piece' too? I always thought they wanted 'World Peace'. I've been deluded all my life, then. Or was that 'Whirrled Peace'?

- Martin, Teddington, 02/04/2009 16:20
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what do you expect from a Miss Universe contender??? "I wish for World Piece" is a classic - ah, ah

- London Eye, UK, 02/04/2009 12:41
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