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  • Judge criticizes U.S. evidence on Guantanamo Bay detainee (Colleen Kollar-Kotelly)

    09/28/2009 8:49:35 PM PDT · by Red Steel · 13 replies · 580+ views
    Texarkana Gazette ^ | 09/26/2009
    WASHINGTON (AP)— A federal judge has ordered the release of a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay and rebuked the U.S. government for relying on scant evidence, uncredible witnesses and coerced confessions to hold him for more than seven years. In an opinion declassified Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said government attorneys presented a “surprisingly bare” record during four days of classified hearings last month to oppose Fouad Al Rabiah’s request for release from the U.S. naval detention facility in Cuba. She said the aviation engineer is being held almost exclusively on confessions obtained through abusive techniques and that...