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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 7 (UPI) -- Taking up U.S. President George Bush's challenge
for reporters to visit the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, CNN did, but
its video was censored.
In response to allegations of prisoner abuse at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, Bush
made the challenge in June, and again Wednesday while in Denmark.
However, a CNN crew that toured the facility was not allowed to see the worst-behaved
inmates, who are kept in a block behind a mesh fence.
The prison holds about 520 prisoners from 44 countries, most of them captured
during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
CNN employees were not allowed to speak to the prisoners, and military censors
demanded the crew erase video footage they said would allow viewers to identify
a prisoner.
In the hospital wing, one prisoner shouted in English, "We take the torture
in here," but it was not possible to talk to the prisoner about his allegation,
the network said.
