Now here is a twist to this whole topic:
AP - Military investigators wanted the former prison commander at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reprimanded over the treatment of one terror suspect, but a top general rejected their call, according to a congressional aide.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e_investigation
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Senators say legislation needed for Guantanamo
Reuters - The U.S. Congress should pass legislation defining the legal status of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay to avoid more damage to the United States' image abroad and reprisals against U.S. soldiers, senators said on Thursday.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...y_guantanamo_dc
This is an interesting read. I'm not sure if it would get any press in the States but it is causing a huge stir in Australia because one of our citizens is being held illegally by the US military.
What this article reveals is the corruption behind the military process. I would like to hear a response to these claims if anyone comes across it. This was reported by an Australian journalist, but the leaked documents are from US military officers.
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Although not directly related, it is of a similar theme:
VIDEOTAPES WITHHELD IN POST 9/11 INQUIRY
The Justice Department's inspector general said a federal prison center in Brooklyn, New York, failed to turn over hundreds of videotapes to investigators probing the treatment of detainees taken into custody after the September 11 attacks.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/16/prison.v...s.ap/index.html
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Bush Bypasses Senate to Install Official
AP - President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ess_appointment
KHADR SHOULD BE JAILED FOR LIFE, U.S. PROSECUTOR SAYS
A U.S. military lawyer prosecuting a Canadian teen at Guantanamo Bay says he's sickened by sympathetic portrayals of Omar Khadr, calling him an al-Qaeda "terrorist" who should spend the rest of his life in jail.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...adr-060110.html
After being held for so long, they are now at least going to let us know 'who' they are, this is all wrong (holding unkown prisoners), mostly because I think of this one thing: What if I were taken there wrongfully? No one would even know if I am alive or dead.
PENTAGON WILL RELEASE GUANTANAMO NAMES
A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press.
Ref. www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/23/guantanamo.lawsuit.ap/index.html
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MI5, Camp Delta, and the story that shames Britain
Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna are among eight British residents who remain prisoners at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They are jailed because British officials rendered them into the hands of the CIA in Africa, a fact that may explain why the British government refuses to intercede on their behalf. Bisher and Jamil have been wrongfully imprisoned now for more than three years. This is the story of their betrayal by the British government and their appalling treatment at the hands of the CIA and the U.S. military.
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