Judge Orders Gitmo Detainee, Held Since Age 14, Freed
Via Larisa, yet another detainee ordered released after the real judicial system, rather than Bush's kangaroo courts, examines the evidence against him.
It is the second time that U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon has ordered the release of a detainee after examining government evidence, most of it classified. Leon said that the Justice Department failed to prove that Mohammed El Gharani, 21, is an enemy combatant because it relied heavily on statements made by two other detainees whose credibility is questionable.
A mosaic of tiles this murky reveals nothing about this petitioner with sufficient clarity" to justify his detention, Leon ruled.
Gharani, a citizen of Chad, was picked up in Pakistan and turned over to the United States in 2002. Since then, he has been held at Guantanamo Bay.
Among the ridiculous claims made was that Gharani had been a member of a London al Qaida cell. At the time, he was aged 11 and living in Saudi Arabia - an accusation based entirely upon statements made by other camp detainees which were not proven true by US investigators, just believed.
He was illegally seized in Pakistan aged 14 and is now 21.
Crossposted from Newshoggers
Fucking....Yeah!!!!!!!!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
So they rounded up these guys, tortured them until they turned on each other then used that as evidence to keep them locked up... unfuckin believable.
All those cell confessions to other prisoners that get used in court.
No matter or concern that they get denied by defences as lies in court.
Would you believe a desperate inmate with an urge to please his captors, and maybe has a history of saying whatever they want.
You know, the criminal Bush administration is making real terrorists out of people. You think after being held for 7 years, this guy now doesn't hate the United States? Once again, the Bush cabal making the United States less safe.
and if the Bush/Cheney fascist regime hadn't been in power, he would have been released a week after he was "detained."
Thank God this is going to change.
We have a winner.
This guy MIGHT be a terrorist now, but he CERTAINLY wasn't before. Who could blame him if he DOES become a terrorist too, I know I would...
So now what? Where do we send him? Does he have family to go back to? Have we radicalized him? Or does he like American's and wants to remain where he's "comfortable"? He was 14. Think of who you were at fourteen. He's had a very regimented life for 7 years. Hopefully the Center for Constitutional Rights helps him adjust.
In fact most of the guys who were rounded up were just unlucky. They were bounty to people who had financial gain for turning them in. The men were simple barbers and shopkeepers. Very few were bad guys.
Jeanne
he's damaged for life, no matter where he goes or what he does. And why?
Nice work bushco, he will hate us forever,and tell every ear he finds to hate us forever. Can daddy buy you a 'not guilty pill?'....look for a lifetime of sleeping pills for you Bushco.
Maybe he was treated very well. Maybe he was learned English and was educated. If he was his world is different from anything he knew before. He is a man without a country. He is an island.
If the men he was housed with took him under their wing then he has a place with the people he was close to. Will he find a place with them?
I heard a story about Gitmo once. These horrible men took the seeds form watermelon and planted them so they could see something grow. It gave them hope.
Jeanne
Jeanne, I'm shocked at the mental acrobatics you are trying to employ to find something positive here.
He was taken as a child away from his family and imprisoned with no rights, no recourse and no hope. Can you possibly put yourself in his situation? And you hope that perhaps he was treated well and educated? Even if he himself was not tortured (and there's no evidence for that to be the case and in point of fact, that he hasn't been released yet points to the likelihood that he was and the Bush administration is too wary to release him), he has most certainly seen his fellow prisoners tortured and tormented. What do you think seeing all that abuse would do to a child?
A full 10% of the prisoners in Gitmo are being force-fed through their noses because they are on hunger strikes. Does that seem like a nurturing environment to you?
More than likely, this country has taken an innocent boy and turned him into a rage-filled, possibly unstable man.
I'm sure when not being tortured, these evil prisoners huddle together singing Kumbaya, and whistling dixie out their yahoos too. Good grief. You make it sound like the kid went to boy scouts camp Jeanne.
that this young boy has had to go through by millions and millions of ruined lives all because of Bush. There must be justice for all of them and for us, too who have suffered from the "leadership" of this murderous man.
Arrest, try and convict Bush of crimes against humanity.
What now needs to happen is a Repatriation committee needs to be formed in order to determine what to do with potentially hundreds of released detainees.
Anyone who thinks that these are isolated cases, that the majority are "battle-hardened terrorists" as Bush/Cheney would have us believe, are going to find out the truth about these men that Bush/Cheney have locked up for more than half a decade.
No, the truth is about to become a tsunami in the next coming weeks. We are about to find out about the horror that is called Guantanamo Bay. We are about to find out about the horrors that Bush and Cheney have perpetrated against innocent men. We are about to find out the depth of the inhumanity that has been occupying the White House for 8 long years.
The end of the long international nightmare is about to come to an explosive end I believe. Break out the popcorn, it's gonna get interesting!
These people could use a little justice.
For gods sake what has happened to America?
I thought the days of killing and terrorizing people had ended with slavery?
I guess I was wrong. A very dear friend of mine, I lived 1/2 a block down the street from him when we were kids.
He got drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam.
I got lucky and didn't have to go.
When he was out of the army and back home he confided in me that he wanted to kill himself. It seems the things he did in Vietnam were haunting him.
We spent the entire night talking and crying.
The only real comfort I could offer him was the fact that he had been drafted and he had no other choice but to go.
It became a subject we spoke of often and spent lots of nights and days driving and talking.
I have never told anyone his name and will go to my grave with a heavy heart for him for what he and so many other young boys have been forced or coerced into participating in events that will forever change their lives, and not for the better.
It is time that the chickenhawks paid the price of their cowardly acts! Prosecute the bush/chenny cabal for crimes against humanity. No people since the nazi's deserve it more!
This week Hamdan was released from jail in Yemen. Is it a condition of their release from Guantanamo that they not talk about their imprisonment?
Does that mean he was picked up by Pakistan's military? Or the CIA? Or the US military? How did a child get arrested and sent to be tortured out of millions of people? Does the US also have a nursery at Gitmo for the baby terrorists they've "discovered" overseas?
Men women and children held there in Iraq.
Gitmo was/is just the local convenient day trip accessible (for DC cubicle warriors) to practice their torture techniques.
What an example of Democracy as the USA tortures kids. This was reported on PBS and Foreign News over 5 years ago. Documents were found with testimony that the US also tortured a 6 and 9 year old children along with woman who were raped and tortured. Many of those released and their families were paid well for the victims suffering. Money has been paid to the families of the people the US killed while torturing them. This is now part of American History. Americans and Law Makers who supported this horror will learn that many in the future will look to the Bush Torture Policy and apply it to American children too.
We should have Nuremberg trials to gain some justice for this kid and all the others that have given years of their lives for the Bushies' lies, ineptitude, and corruption. Anything short of trials will be shameful and cowardice by our gov't.
Hear hear! TRIALS!
'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique
A man's teen years, stolen by a lot of selfish, stupid, evil, cowardly, and corrupt men.
GeeDub Bush:
Get out. NOW. Not Tuesday. NOW. Five minutes from now is not soon enough.
Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split you, fool.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Judges have been ignored before.
I hope he is released.
But tell me that it wouldn't be justified, if he became a life-long hater of the USA after this?
During his formative childhood years he was locked up in a cage with a hood on his head far from his mother and father, in total isolation like an animal with no charges brought against him.
What will happen to him now? I'm sure the ravages of PTSD kicked in long ago. He is the definition of the walking wounded and will most likely remain in that paralytic mind state for some time to come.
Where is he returning to? What can there be there for him? He is yet a child with no emotional skin to speak of as he leaves one hell behind only to face a new hell of sorts in the great unknown.
I hope there are therapists prepared to help this boy in what will be a shock to his system and a long difficult journey while he transistions back into real life.
If I found out my child had been held and tortured I would dedicate the remainder of my life tracking down the people responsible! Even if it caused my death in the process.
I would make them pay!
Stop the Bush kidnappings, rapes, tortures, and murders!!!
Kidnapped at gunpoint and spent a third of his life tortured.
This is what America will have to clean up, and until there are trials, and heads roll, that won't happen.
'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique
I say this being one of his supporters. There is no "moving forward" until we rectify the past. It's like covering garbage with a new rug. It still stinks and will inevitably ruin the rug. We will be dragging this moral burden - and we will never be free to embrace our future until justice is served for this child, the people of Iraq, and the American people. If we don't do it ourselves, mark my word, I will support the foreign government that brings Bush, Cheney and the whole cabal up for war crimes and this nation will face international contempt - and deserve it!
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