Posted on 03/05/2006 8:00:20 PM PST by NewLand
Pinch, you're awake now...
That is the point!
I can't recall exact names and incidents - but haven't we had people who were released from Gitmo go right back into terror activities?
I feel pretty sure we have. All the more reason to keep these a-holes at Gitmo - PERMANENTLY!
"I don't want to spend any more time here. Not one more minute," Afghan prisoner Mohammed Gul said at a combat status review tribunal."
the sweetest bed time story ive read.We must be doing something right.
something's fishy about you...
Certainly some of them. The general argument is "how much" (or what triggers a right of) access to courts. Another angle is delineation of POW v. "enemy combatant" and the very nature of a war on terror with an indefinite end point. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590224/posts?page=8#8
The Hamdan case, and related, are right on the same point. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581198/posts.
Suppose we had a spate of domestic terorism (cf Timothy McVeigh), with a Democrat government in charge. Welp, we have a system of secret prisons all set up already, for confining people who don't agree with the government, or who may have consorted with violent militia types! How convenient!
Civil war cases (Merryman, Milligan) and WWII treason cases (Quirin, Haupt) are illuminating.
There was an article where the guy said he left Saudi Arabia to fight in Afghanistan with bin Laden against the Americans. Said the treatment at Git-mo was good - they get to pray, good food, and ..... juice! But, "I still wish to go home to see my family."
IOW, "sympathy for the devil".
Nope.
LOL
ONLY questioned 50 times in 3 years. That's about once ever 3 weeks! That's unacceptable!
And why- pray tell- doesn't someone ask them why their Allah doesn't save them? Hmmmmmmm???
Go back to DU...that garbage wont fly here.
Call out the Viking Kitties!
You callin' me a troll too?
Let the AP give him an old patched-up innertube so he can paddle his way out of Cuba across shark-infested waters like all those non-terrorist Cubans whose plight under Castro's terrorist-supporting dictatorship the presstitutes willfully ignore. Oh, wait, he's not that desperate for freedom - he gets better meals and more opportunities in Gitmo than a Cuban could ever expect in the 'worker's paradise.'
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...not you; the n00b.
Check it out:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_4-9-2003_pg1_3
Sept. 4, 2003
Saif Paracha detained at Bagram: ICRC
By Maqbool Ahmed
KARACHI: Businessman Saifullah Paracha, who had disappeared from the Karachi Airport in mysterious circumstances on July 5, has been detained by the US authorities at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, shows a letter written by Mr Paracha in his own hand that was dispatched to his wife, Mrs Farhat Paracha, by a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Islamabad.
Talking to the Daily Times on Wednesday, Mrs Parachas lawyer Nisar A. Mujahid said the letter that was received by the ICRC Kabul on Aug 11 and was dispatched to the wife of the missing businessman by Francois Auffret, a tracing delegate of the ICRC in Islamabad.
Mrs Paracha received the letter on Aug 30, he added. When contacted at her home by phone, Mrs Paracha confirmed that she had received the letter but asked this reporter to seek further details from her lawyer. Mr Mujahid said the letter had been written on the specific form of the ICRC and on the similar forms provided by the ICRC his family had given their reply to the letter. About the contents of the letter, Mr Mujahid said it simply contained information about the well-being of Mr Paracha. Mr Paracha had written that he was getting proper food and was being treated well, the lawyer said. However, Mr Mujahid claimed that Mr Paracha had been detained somewhere in Pakistan and the ICRC was being used to route his letter via Kabul just to show that the person was not inside the territory of Pakistan.
Answering a question, Mr Mujahid said he would produce the letter in the Sindh High Court which was due to hear the final arguments in the case of mysterious missing of Mr Paracha on Sept 9.
His son Ozair Paracha is facing charges of assisting the entry of Al Qaeda operatives into the US before a New York court which last month rejected his bail application.
Mr [Saifullah] Paracha had cleared to board a Bangkok-bound flight of Thai Airways on July 5 by immigration authorities at the Karachi Airport, but his family claimed that he never reached Bangkok.
11 posted on 09/04/2003 11:59:14 AM PDT by Shermy
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