Russia: ex-Guantanamo detainee killed

Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | June 27, 2007 | JIM HEINTZ

[SwinneySwitch]

"The FSB said Odizhev was the "spiritual leader" of Yarmuk, an Islamic extremist organization connected to an array of violence in the region.'

Religion of peace?

[CAWats]

Obviously Cheney’s fault.

[Triggerhippie]

We could learn a thing or two from the Russians about how to handle terrorists...

[3AngelaD]

Right, let’s shut down Guantanamo and bring all these blood-thirsty PsOS here and give them a taxpayer provided lawyer, habeus corpus and set them all free.

[Levante]

Such a shame, I’m sure Odizhev was a fine upstanding citizen. America is so cruel for it’s “abuses” and “torture” at Gitmo. Quick, let’s admit our “abuses” to keep the GD liberals happy and let all the inmates out!! Or, lets move them to the US! Yeah, lets keep everyone happy! (Sarc)

[Red Badger]

Why was he released?.........and to whom?.....

[gipper81]

Let’s put the bad guys on a plane. Name it the Guantanamo Free Airways. Land in Siberia. End of story.

[wildcatf4f3]

the dems have proposed a nonbinding sratement encouraging the victim to appeal his death to the world court

[stylin19a]

Close Gitmo, send the prisoners in Russia.

[stylin19a]

i’m way too slow.....

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Ruslan, we hardly knew ye....

[gipper81]

27secs; sorry!

[SwinneySwitch]

“Odizhev and six other Russians who had been detained in Afghanistan were released from Guantanamo in 2004 after investigators said they found no evidence of their involvement with the Taliban. Several were briefly jailed after returning to Russia.

In March, Human Rights Watch charged that the seven had been tortured or harassed and abused by Russian law enforcement agents since their return. “

[Shots]

Hey I thought everyone of them was not guilty obviously Russia thought otherwise. KUDOS Moscow vey send you many more

[robomatik]

anyone remember the story from the 1980's about the businessman (cover for a kgb agent) was kidnapped in lebanon for ransom. the kgb found the family of one of the kidnappers and cut them to pieces with a chainsaw while videotaping the whole affair. Then, they tossed the video with body parts onto a random street. The "businessman" was soon released.

my brother loves to tell this story to bring home the brutal effective tactics of the russians. (and that we should look to them as a model in the war on terror).

any help would be appreciated. (i've never been able to actually confirm this story.

[texas_mrs]

The FSB did not specify why agents were trying to detain him

Sounds like they detained the hell out of him...

[martinidon]

Here is an idea, lets move Guantanamo to Russia and let Putin oversee its operation.....

[Tailgunner Joe]

Russian President blasts Guantanamo camp - "People have been held at the camp without trial for five years, and those released have to defend themselves in national judicial systems....I hope a camp similar to the one at Guantanamo never appears in Russia."

[stylin19a]

"The mothers of the eight Russians held with other prisoners from Afghanistan at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay have begged Washington not to extradite their sons to answer terror charges in Russia, fearing that conditions in their jails and judicial system are even worse than those at Camp Delta.

"In Guantanamo they treat him humanely and the conditions are fine," Amina Khasanova, the mother of Andrei Bakhitov, told the newspaper Gazeta. "I am terribly scared for my son in a Russian prison or court system."

She said her son wrote to her that conditions were so good in Camp Delta in Cuba that "there is no health resort in Russia that can compare".

[Thunder90]