Most Guantanamo detainees innocent civilians
How many outrages can we stand? The National Journal has this article:
A high percentage, perhaps the majority, of the 500-odd men now held at Guantanamo were not captured on any battlefield, let alone on "the battlefield in Afghanistan" (as Bush asserted) while "trying to kill American forces" (as McClellan claimed).
Fewer than 20 percent of the Guantanamo detainees, the best available evidence suggests, have ever been Qaeda members.
Many scores, and perhaps hundreds, of the detainees were not even Taliban foot soldiers, let alone Qaeda terrorists. They were innocent, wrongly seized noncombatants with no intention of joining the Qaeda campaign to murder Americans.
The majority were not captured by U.S. forces but rather handed over by reward-seeking Pakistanis and Afghan warlords and by villagers of highly doubtful reliability.
posted by walldon | 5:15 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for posting this! I had suspected something like it.
Without the benefit of habeas corpus, who has to even try to prove anything one way or the other about these poor souls? And, of course, "innocent until prove guilty" only applies to agents and actions of The Regime.
Welcome to Gulag Guantanamo, comrades.
Yep. Hey, Chitom, I'm assuming we're both being LISTENED TO by the NSA. It's pretty clear we are dangerous terrorists. Both of us have arms and legs that might do something harmful to the ants in the street!
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