Innocent Guantanamo detainees freed after 14 years.

The Blood of Angry Men said:
Uhh, what is his offense? Seeking compensation for the torture your government put him through?
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You didn't read all the article!!

"They include Jamal al Harith, who was freed in 2004 and is now believed to be fighting for Islamic State (ISIS) and Omar Deghayes, the uncle of two British jihadis killed in Syria."

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christiefan915 said:
This ugly stain on our country should have been closed years and years ago. I wonder if the men got any compensation for their ordeal.

"A Tajik and a Yemeni national each held for roughly 14 years at Guantanamo Bay have been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Serbia, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday.

The Pentagon said the two men were released from the U.S. base in Cuba after comprehensive security reviews. It identified the Yemeni as Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi and the Tajik as Muhammadi Davlatov.

The latest detainee releases come amid a renewed push by the Obama administration to whittle down the number of men held at the U.S. base in Cuba. On Sunday, another Yemeni prisoner was released and sent to Italy after more than 14 years in custody.

...they were never charged with a crime, and authorities ultimately decided they did not pose a security threat and could be freed.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/guantanamo-detainees-serbia-latest-releases-40492156
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They and the others were, in essence, political prisoners.

The Bush administration, in a desperate effort to ‘justify’ its illegal, unwarranted invasion of Iraq, used the Guantanamo detainees to do just that.
 
Milagro said:
You didn't read all the article!!

"They include Jamal al Harith, who was freed in 2004 and is now believed to be fighting for Islamic State (ISIS) and Omar Deghayes, the uncle of two British jihadis killed in Syria."
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there it is
 
christiefan915 said:
[SUP]I suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be convicted if the government would end the legal farce surrounding his trial.[/SUP]
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The Trial
Eric Holder and the battle over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/15/the-trial-2
December 5th, several hundred people gathered in Foley Square, in lower Manhattan, and withstood a drenching rainstorm for two hours in order to send a message to Attorney General Eric Holder.
A JumboTron, set up by the protesters, played clips of Holder’s recent testimony before Congress, in which he explained his decision to hold the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—the self-proclaimed planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—and four co-conspirators in the colonnaded federal courthouse flanking the square, rather than in a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
 
anatta said:
The Trial
Eric Holder and the battle over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/15/the-trial-2
December 5th, several hundred people gathered in Foley Square, in lower Manhattan, and withstood a drenching rainstorm for two hours in order to send a message to Attorney General Eric Holder.
A JumboTron, set up by the protesters, played clips of Holder’s recent testimony before Congress, in which he explained his decision to hold the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—the self-proclaimed planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—and four co-conspirators in the colonnaded federal courthouse flanking the square, rather than in a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
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Here's one from May 2016.

An explosive allegation about destroyed evidence threatens to unravel the already shaky military tribunal for the alleged architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Attorneys for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are calling on the judge and the entire prosecution team in Mohammed’s military commission at Guantánamo Bay to step down from the long-running case over what a member of the defense team called “at least the appearance of collusion” that led to the government apparently secretly destroying information relevant to the premier post-9/11 tribunal.

“Now, and indeed over other matters previously, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s military commission is fatally flawed,” said David Nevin, Mohammed’s lead attorney. The prosecution in the 9/11 military tribunal is seeking the death penalty for the self-described architect of the attacks, who has been in US custody for more than 12 years. The details of what happened are not known because the unclassified legal filing is not yet publicly available. The specific allegations were filed on Tuesday before the commission, but the filing must clear a routine security review that all such legal documents before the commission undergo.

The defense team further argues that the destruction of evidence ought to spell the end of Mohammed’s military trial entirely, a development that would leave the Obama administration and its successor to come up with an entirely new plan for what to do with the top terror suspect in US custody.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ikh-mohammed-trial-alleged-destroyed-evidence
 
christiefan915 said:
Here's one from May 2016.

An explosive allegation about destroyed evidence threatens to unravel the already shaky military tribunal for the alleged architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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I cannot quote your entire post, nor can I edit on this forum...
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From what I know the military trials were "reformed" (my words) by Congress after objections by SCOTUS.
By converting to civilian trials-it allowed all kinds of motions to delay.

I cannot see any legitimate reason why Holder intervened -
there was something about an executive order tochnagethe Manual for Military Commissions also.
The entire thing is FUBAR
 
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