Strawberry Fields Denizens and Salafis Forever at Gitmo
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever." The Fab Four
“Eventually, the agency’s network would encompass at least eight detention centers, including one in the Middle East, one each in Iraq and Afghanistan and a maximum-security long-term site at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that was dubbed Strawberry Fields, officials said. (It was named after a Beatles song after C.I.A. officials joked that the detainees would be held there, as the lyric put it, “forever.”)………..”
Associating “Strawberry Fields” with the likes of Taliban, al-Qaeda, and perhaps a few hapless innocents caught in the wrong place at the wrong time!
One of the songs I have good memories of is being used as background for water-boarding and other nefarious and possibly other activities.
For some reason I had thought that al-Qaeda types, even those who merely suspects, are not “Strawberry” types. Maybe because I cannot imagine a shaggy Salafi denizen of Guantanamo, or even Waziristan or Tora Bora, , daintily enjoying a strawberry shortcake or, better yet, a potent bowl of English trifle, with all the fixin’s, including one (or all) of rum, kahlua, amaretto….. I imagine at Gitmo “rum” is the word…..
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