Posted on 10/19/2017 12:19:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In common with the people of Pakistan, Americans have a rich history of peaceful protest when their government strays from its proper purpose. We remember the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War demonstrations and the millions who turn out on the Mall in Washington for any important issue.
Today, I am writing about another peaceful protest — that of a fellow Pakistani citizen who has had his rights stripped from him, Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Rabbani.
Ahmed’s family originally come from the persecuted Burmese Rohingya; he is a rather humble taxi driver from Karachi, Pakistan. In 2002, he was sold for a bounty to the CIA. They were told he was someone called Hassan Ghul, but he insisted this was a mistake.
In its investigation of the CIA torture program, the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed this, along with Ahmed’s claim that he had been tortured. Indeed, he was tortured “without approval” — as if approving it makes it any better — and held for more than 540 days in CIA custody before being rendered to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has now waited 15 years in vain for a charge or trial.
Ahmed finally lost patience four years ago and went on a hunger strike as a peaceful protest. This is, I feel sure, the kind of protest that Americans will understand: After all, how else can Ahmed object to 15 years of injustice but by hunger strike?
Under President Barack Obama, authorities force-fed the hunger strikers, pumping them full of supplements. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this, at least it has kept Ahmed alive. However, in a telephone call with his lawyer at international human rights organization Reprieve, Ahmed has explained how, on Sept. 20, the Trump administration enacted a new policy of not force-feeding hunger strikers.
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No we don’t.
LOL!
I thought the left supported suicide?
No we don’t.
If an American were in a Pakastani prison he would be eating bugs.
Let this POS eat bugs.
Execute these terrorists
Er, write letters? Write books?
Who's declaring the 'injustice' here and why?
WaPo = A Whale of Poo
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
Four years without food?
End his suffering. Shoot the f’er!
Satire right?
So if he is innocent why diodn’t Obama let him go like known terrorists that he set loose?
What’s the problem?
Anyone who feels sorry for this pos jihadi, should volunteer to have him live in their home. They can provide him a prayer room, prayer rug, feed him properly and provide him an internet site, so he can tell the world about Islam.
ditto
We have a duty to use the washpost for training puppies.
The Bergdahls have a spare room.
He has the freedom to make the decision not to eat ...
We should respect his choice and let him not eat (and not feed him).
Everybody wins ...
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