ElCount
02-06-2011, 12:16 AM
I don't think this has been posted yet. I just saw it on Glenn Greenwald's blog. (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/04/guantanamo/index.html)
I read the Miami Herald article (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/03/2048865/suspected-taliban-commander-dead.html) he quoted and it is a decent piece of journalism and somewhat comprehensive.
I'd also recommend what Guantanamo Bay expert Andy Worthington had to say about it. (http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/02/04/guantanamo-prisoner-dies-after-being-held-for-nine-years-without-charge-or-trial/)
Pretty sad news, and absolutely pathetic that we have prisoners who have been detained for over 9 years and have never been charged with a crime and have no trial date in sight. As Andy Worthington points out, WW2 lasted 6 years and after the end of the war, prisoners of war were released and allowed to resume their lives. Only in Soviet America do we detain people forever, deny them habeas corpus, and allow them to die in jail.
I read the Miami Herald article (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/03/2048865/suspected-taliban-commander-dead.html) he quoted and it is a decent piece of journalism and somewhat comprehensive.
I'd also recommend what Guantanamo Bay expert Andy Worthington had to say about it. (http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/02/04/guantanamo-prisoner-dies-after-being-held-for-nine-years-without-charge-or-trial/)
Pretty sad news, and absolutely pathetic that we have prisoners who have been detained for over 9 years and have never been charged with a crime and have no trial date in sight. As Andy Worthington points out, WW2 lasted 6 years and after the end of the war, prisoners of war were released and allowed to resume their lives. Only in Soviet America do we detain people forever, deny them habeas corpus, and allow them to die in jail.