Guantanamo releases
Five British citizens held at Guantanamo Bay for two years without trial are set to be released. The British government lobbied for their release, and does not expect to file any charges against the men, if for no other reason than the fact that they were held so long in violation of international law. Some academics are speculating that the men have a good case for seeking compensation from the United States.
I completely support this. The way we treated these men is a disgrace. I say let them sue. I say settle the lawsuit. Make a big deal about it, have a special investigation, create a constitutional amendment that explicitly ratifies the Geneva Convention, let heads roll. All of that.
That being said, if The Herald wanted me to believe the men had been falsely imprisoned, as I believe was there intention, they did a horrible job. Really, three young Muslim men from the same town (one third the size of Pasadena) all happened to end up in Pakistan, at the same, with shaky reasons for being there? All three of them disappeared and ended up in the remote mountains of Afghanistan by complete accident?
The father of Rhuhel Ahmed, one of the detainees, said of the 23-year-old man that “He is a kid, straight out of school. How could he be a terrorist?” Who the hell does he think terrorist groups recruit, senile pensioners? I started the article believing them to be innocent. I finished it very skeptical. Read it for yourself and see what you think.
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August 14th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Guantanamo releases, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.