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[War on Terror] What about the ghost prisoners? (Boo-hoo!)
The London Guardian ^
| December 4, 2008
| Clive Stafford Smith
Posted on 12/03/2008 8:54:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mr. Clive Stafford Smith should open his front door and accomodate as many of these folks as possible...
We should all send him and email encouraging him to extend asylum to these wayward individuals...
We can send him some tents to put up in his yard to make room for mo...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yet the justifiable joy at Obama's ascendancy must be tempered with the knowledge that Guantánamo always has been a diversionary tactic in the "war on terror". The 250 men there represent fewer than 1% of the 27,000 prisoners being held by the US beyond the rule of law. There is a reason why most people have never heard of the plight of these unfortunates - they are ghost prisoners in secret prisons. Obama has yet to speak of the missing 99.1%.Hmm there's allegedly 1% of the prisoners in GITMO, and this writer is speaking about the other 99.1%?? lets see. 99.1% + 1 % = eleventy-one percent.??
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12/05/2008 9:00:56 AM PST
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Karliner
("Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. DDE)
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