Nearly 30 percent at Guantanamo jail cleared to go

[Eugene]

Nearly 30 percent at Guantanamo jail cleared to go
Friday 21 April 2006, 2:05pm EST

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Nearly 30 percent of the Guantanamo detainees have been cleared
to leave the prison but remain jailed because the U.S. government has been unable to arrange
for their return to their home countries, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The Pentagon refused to identify these 141 men despite having released on Wednesday its first
comprehensive list of detainees held at the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S.
naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Of these 141 detainees among the 490 still at Guantanamo, various military reviews have cleared 22
to be freed in their home countries and the remaining 119 for transfer to the control of their home
governments.

"It's just an outrageous situation where people have gone through this system that has been
established, such as it is, and the (U.S.) government itself has found there's no reason
for them to be held any longer, and yet they continue to be held," said Curt Goering, a senior
Amnesty International USA official.

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nN20338909

[Jane Austin]

1. Good to hear we are doing something about them.

But . . . what's Bushco's excuse for keeping them for four years without charge?

[Time for change]

4. His excuse is that we're fighting a "War on Terror"

The same excuse that he's using to turn our country into a dictatorship.

[BIgJohn83]

2. The next question is...

How many of those folks didn't hate the US to begin with...and how many actually hate us now? Camp Xray=Terrorist recruitment center.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Washington, Jefferson and Paine each with their head in one hand...

...and their swords' hilt in the other.


The hilt of George Washington's sword

"This sword and scabbard belonged to George Washington who wore the hanger-type battle sword while commanding the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The sword was later inherited by Washington’s nephew, Samuel T. Washington, and army captain. Washington admonished his nephew to use the sword only in self-defense or in the defense of country and its rights.”

PB

[951-Riverside]

5. Bring them here to America

Pay for their lodging, clothing, food, etc we owe them that and once they become stable give them a choice to stay here or leave if they choose to leave fly them first class to their country.

[EFerrari]

6. But, these were "the most dangerous terrorists in the world"

weren't they? Rumsfeld said so! :sarcasm:

[killbotfactory]

7. No harm, no foul...

"These men were the most dangerous terrorists in the world!" :eyes:

[Supersedeas]

15. Bushist values - Jail them first and ask questions years later

the doctrine of preemptive criminal procedure

[baby_mouse]

8. Freedom is on the March. NT.

[maddezmom]

9. kick

[DeepModem Mom]

10. LAT: U.S. to Free 141 (Gitmo) Terror Suspects

U.S. to Free 141 Terror Suspects
The Guantanamo prison detainees pose no threat, an official says. Most of those still in custody have no charges pending against them.
By Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
April 25, 2006

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba — The Pentagon plans to release nearly a third of those held at the prison for terrorism suspects here because they pose no threat to U.S. security, an official of the war crimes tribunal said Monday.

Charges are pending against about two dozen of the remaining prisoners, the chief prosecutor said. But he left unclear why the rest face neither imminent freedom nor a day in court after as many as four years in custody.

Only 10 of the roughly 490 alleged "enemy combatants" currently detained at the facility have been charged; none has been charged with a capital offense.

That leaves the majority of the U.S. government's prisoners from the war on terrorism in limbo and its war crimes tribunal exposed to allegations by international human rights advocates that it is illegitimate and abusive.

The decision to release 141 detainees — the largest group to be reclassified and moved off the island — follows a yearlong review of their cases in which interrogators also determined that they could provide no further intelligence. It was unclear when or where the detainees would be released....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo25apr25,0,1113317.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[efhmc]

11. So NOW they know they are no threat. How are they

planning on replacing the last 4.5 years of their lives?

[noonwitch]

13. I don't know, but I'm glad they are letting them go

If they aren't terrorists, they should get to go home. Our country should make sure that they get home safely and do right by them and their families-I know that's a lot to hope for from the administration, but it's not from the individual government employees/military personnel involved.

[radwriter0555]

12. WHAT!??!!!??!!!!! All those TEWWA WISTS running FREE???? Holy SHIT!

*commences running in circles, waving arms and shrieking like a ... freeper..*

[saigon68]

16. shrieking like a ... freeper

That's rich

[BuyingThyme]

14. No "terror suspects" have ever been sent to Guantanamo Bay.

[realFedUp]

18. hard to sue when you get released to jails in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia

I am a Gitmo prisoner.

[JPZenger]

17. But I thought they were all al qaida

But I thought everyone in Guantanomo was as rabid bomb-throwing terrorist, who if you gave them access to a lawyer and a fair hearing would instantly use the lawyer to bash through the bars of his prison cell and escape to blow up your small town's shopping mall.

After all, in order to keep these guys in Guantanomo, our President certified that they were enemy combatants. He is infallible, isn't he?

It was those ultra-liberals who demanded that the detainees get access to a lawyer and a hearing. However, they forgot to require that the Bush Administration actually let the lawyer see any of the evidence or to let the lawyer actually attend the hearing.

[Judi Lynn]

19. Along with the good news comes the nearly obscured bad news:

Posted on Mon, Apr. 24, 2006
Pentagon preparing more Guantánamo prosecutions
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
[e-mail]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The Pentagon is preparing prosecutions against about 25 more captives at the prison for suspected terrorists here, some with recommendations that they be executed if convicted, the chief prosecutor said Monday.

Air Force Col. Moe Davis would not characterize the new candidates for President Bush's war crimes trials, called Military Commissions, but said some would be accused of actively participating in killing U.S. soldiers or their coalition allies in Afghanistan.
(snip)

''I anticipate that some of these will certainly present the possibility of death penalty cases,'' the chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commission said.
(snip/...)


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14418772.htm

[Kablooie]

20. So I guess they weren't terrorists after all.

So it doesn't matter.

Four years of imprisonment and torture isn't really THAT bad.

I mean it's not like they were Ameerikans or anything.


Goddamn it!
They were PEOPLE and BUSH TOOK AWAY 4 YEARS OF THEIR LIVES!!
FOR NOTHING!!

shit.

[Disturbed]

21. The Bush Regime and their DOD have no shame.

They are all Sociopaths, not capable of the concept.