Posted on 03/27/2010 9:05:56 AM PDT by Starman417
In a two-sentence ruling given on Monday, U.S. District Judge James Robertson granted the habeas corpus petition and thus ordered the release of Mohamedou Salahi, who was arrested in Mauritania in 2001 and has been held as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay for eight years. Robertson said he would explain his decision in a later statement.The 9/11 Commission report describes Salahi, the 34th detainee ordered released on a habeas petition, as a high-level al Qaeda operative who advised three of the 9/11 hijackers when they were living in Germany before the attacks. An internal military investigation found Salahi was abused by U.S. officers at Gitmo -- threatened with death by drowning and subjected to sleep deprivation. President Barack Obama's administration is expected to appeal Robertson's ruling.
Slahi's detention at Guantanamo has been controversial because of the interrogation techniques used on him. Slahi is one of the few detainees held at Guantanamo who had a special, and harsh, interrogation plan approved for his questioning.A military prosecutor decided he could not prosecute Slahi due to the interrogation techniques, yet he admitted that Slahi was one of the most dangerous al Qaeda operatives in custody.
“Of the cases I had seen, [Slahi] was the one with the most blood on his hands,” said Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Crouch, during an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 2007. [Link here]
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Next time we hear his name will be in Afghanistan fighting the US.
A big Thanks to all liberal judges and lawyers that care more about the security of terrorists than Americans.
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