Bhuiyan 1

Afsan Bhuiyan
Mrs. Latham
English 2010
2/24/2015
Toulmin Outline About Gauntanmo Bay Detainees Life
The Toulmin Outline Assignment requires you to think critically about your argument and
underlying assumptions. The Stasis model allowed you to analyze the facts and situation in order
to determine your thesis, now that thesis will be broken down and analyzed in order to strengthen
your argument and address potential counter arguments. This will be a good starting point for the
Classical Argument paper.
You will outline your argument according to the Toulmin model:

Enthymeme/Argument (Claim+Reason): The U.S government should reduce the use of torture
methods used on the detainees with cameras capturing the tortures because severe torture leads to
severe physical and physiological illnesses which is inhumane.
Reasons:
Lack of security will lead to the interrogators having more freedom of torturing the
detainees of however they want.
The U.S does not follow the Geneva Conventions and makes there on rules on torture
like the Bush administration. The Bush administration said as long as the detainees dont

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get organ failure or death then they are not being tortured. (CIA Torture - Guantanamo
Bay)
Increase of torture on detainees may cause more people to have anti-American feelings.
You may not get the information from the detainees by increasing the torture rather you
may get false information.
The physical and psychological illnesses from severe torture are evidence that goes
against the ethics of the Geneva Conventions which the U.S supposedly supports.
Al Qaeda/Taliban/ISIS may use the torture on Guantanamo bay as a propaganda to recruit
people to join their group.
The interrogators maybe interrogating a detainee who has no charge of terrorism.
Forced nudity is a sexual abuse that is unethical to the Muslim religion.
Severe physical and psychological illness caused by torture will disrupt the detainees
family and his society. Impaired ability to relate to family and friends, persistent anger
toward governmental entities, and impaired occupational functioning interfere with
returning to normal life upon release. ("The Expected Psychiatric Impact)
Detainees being severely tortured can lead them to have increase in PTSD, have the
intention to suicide and be dehumanized. ("The Expected Psychiatric Impact)
Cultural and religious abuse that detainees (Muslim detainees) go through will affect the
Muslim population negatively.
Here you give reasons to support your claim. Why/how do you know this is true? What
facts support your argument?

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Grounds: Here you use your sources to provide support for your reasons.
Moazzam says how Dick Cheney wants the Guantanamo bay military to work on the
dark side with the detainee according to Russell Brand in his youtube video (CIA Torture Guantanamo Bay). Working on the dark side means interrogating the detainees privately without
being publicized. Moazzam is a detainee who has been tortured without charge of any terrorism.
Also, Moazzam talks about Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who gave a false confession in Guantanamo
bay about how Al Qaeda is working with Saddam Hussein who is planning on creating weapons
of mass destruction which lead the American military to go after Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
It provided grist for anti-American propaganda, notably by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden. In 2010, he penned a column for Inspire magazine, in which he mentioned the crimes at
Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo which shook the conscience of humanity. (Jamie Tarabay Abu
Ghraib Closes). This article talks about how Osama Bin Ladin propagates an anti-American
propaganda by talking about the bad treatments the detainees receive at Guantanamo bay.
This time Shafiq says I had to run as fast as I could with my legs shackled and I was bent
over with a sack over my head. We were taken to another tent. There they cut off all my clothes
and forcefully shaved our beards and heads. I was taken outside. I was completely naked with a
sack on my head and I could 16 hear dogs barking nearby and soldiers shouting get em
boy.(Tipton Three) This article shows how the interrogators in Guantanamo bay religiously
abused the detainees by shaving their beards, and keeping a beard is mandatory in Islam
according to the majority of Muslims and Muslim scholars. Also, an adult showing his genitals

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to anyone (other than the spouse) is prohibited in Islam. The interrogators abused Shafiq by
forcing him to take all of his clothes off in front of them.

Warrants: Here you list underlying assumptions. If my argument is true, this also must be true.
I assume all detainees have physical and mental illnesses and arent treated well. I
assumed that the severe torture on the detainees leads to everyone having anti-American feelings.
I am assuming if the interrogators torture privately then the interrogators have more freedom of
torturing the detainees. Also, lack of security means that interrogators could lie about what they
are actually doing to the detainees in private rather than telling the truth.
Backing: Here you provide reasons why your assumptions are true. This may include
sources or personal examples.
Muslims are affected by how the detainees are being treated in Guantanamo bay
because they have the same religion as us. When Muslims see another Muslim being
badly tortured then we feel sympathy for him because torture is prohibited in our religion.
Most Muslims become anti-American as in they are against the torture the military
does to the detainees, but not anti-American as in hating the whole country. Personally, I
have nothing against America. Although, when I see my religion being abused and
Muslims being abused in Guantanamo bay because of their religion then I am against
people who are supporting this act. Although, Al Qaeda uses the situation at Guantanamo
bay as a propaganda to literally propagate anti-American feelings to recruit fighters
(Jamie Tarabay Abu Ghraib Closes). These are the reasons why I assume most Muslims
are anti-American as in being against the military who severely tortures detainees and

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dehumanizes them. The increase of PTSD of the detainees was caused from severe
torture which means the interrogators had more freedom to severely torture the detainees
in private ("The Expected Psychiatric Impact).
Unexpected deaths of Talal al-Zahrani of Yemen, and Salah Ahmed al-Salami and
Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, both of Saudi Arabia shows lack of integrity of the
interrogators in Guantanamo bay. The interrogators has said the three detainees killed
themselves ,but evidence was found they couldnt of killed themselves because the
materials the detainees supposedly had in their cell for suicide was not allowed to be
owned by the detainees. The guards were on guard almost 24/7 to keep an eye on the
detainees. If the detainees were going to kill themselves then the guards must have seen
that happening and stopped them. Also, many of the materials like a towel that was stuck
on the throat of a detainee cant be given to the detainee in his cell which makes the
situation more suspicious.
The records of psychological and physical illnesses of detainees show what the
detainees are going through ("The Expected Psychiatric Impact). We could say most
detainees go through the same psychological and physical illnesss as records say.
Grounds for Rebuttal: Here you provide counter arguments to your assumption. This is
the perspective of someone who disagrees.
Just because the detainees are being tortured privately does not mean the interrogators
dont follow the torture rules.
U.S soldiers go through PTSD and other physical and mental illnesses ,so detainees
going through torture is justifiable as long as they dont get killed.

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If torture, humiliation, and abuse is needed to get information from the detainee to save
several lives then extreme torture is needed for the detainee.
The U.S military privately tortures the detainees, so Al Qaeda/Taliban/ISIS wouldnt use
the situation with detainees in Guantanamo bay as a propaganda. The tortures will be kept
secret and not exposed.
Showing sympathy for the detainees wouldnt help you get any information from them.
Any information from detainees is important, and torture will likely force the detainees to
say the truth.
Torturing the detainees will show fear upon terrorists which can lead the terrorists to
destabilize.
POVs shouldnt be treated the same as a U.S soldier. The detainees want to kill U.S
soldiers and are willing to die for war, so torturing them is fine as long as you dont kill
them.
Qualifier: Here you address the counter arguments and modify your warrants.
POVs should be tortured to obtain valuable information from them to save lives of other
people. As long as the POVs are not tortured to death then any torture to the detainee is
justifiable. I believe most detainees are not treated well, and they should be taken care
within the Geneva Conventions which is more humane.

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You should include at least three reasons and at least three warrants/assumptions in this analysis.
Each reason should be supported with two different sources (you may use the same source for
different reasons, but need a minimum of 4 sources).

Grading:
Quality of Sources
Quality of Argument/thesis
Provides clear reasons
Analyzes Warrants, strong identification of

5
5
5
7

underlying assumptions
Addresses counter arguments clearly and

reasonably
MLA Format, style and grammar

Works Cited
"Report: Tipton Three Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay." Center for Constitution
RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.

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<http://ccrjustice.org/tipton-three>.
Brenner, Grant H., GB. "The Expected Psychiatric Impact of Detention in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, and Related Considerations." Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 2010th ser.
11.4 (2010): 469-87. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
Brand, Russell. "CIA Torture - Guantanamo Bay." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Dec. 2014. Web. 22
Feb. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sl7ojcIj8E>.
Tarabay, Jamie, J.T. "Abu Ghraib Closes, Bitter Memories of Torture Remain | Al Jazeera
America." Abu Ghraib Closes. Al Jazeera, 16 Apr. 2014. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.
<http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/15/abu-ghraib-s-infamousend.html>.
"Report: Tipton Three Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay." Center for Constitution
RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.
<http://ccrjustice.org/tipton-three>.