'Outrageous': Guantánamo Prisoner Dies After Being Held for Nine Years Without Charge or Trial (Taliban, activist)

[freefall]

"Gul said that he had resigned from the Taliban … and, in a volte-face that was typical of Afghan politics, had begun working with the pro-US warlord Hazrat Ali, one of three Afghan commanders who had fought at Tora Bora on the Americans’ behalf [Tora Bora being the site of a showdown, in December 2001, between al-Qaeda and senior Taliban supporters on the one hand, and a proxy Afghan army directed by US Special Forces on the other].

He explained that, on Ali’s advice, he handed himself in to Northern Alliance commanders in Kabul in February 2002, in an attempt to quell rumors about his involvement with the Taliban, but was then handed over to the Americans."
'Outrageous': Guantánamo Prisoner Dies After Being Held for Nine Years Without Charge or Trial | CommonDreams.org

[SourD]

Oh well, ***** happens. What about all the people he killed in the name of Islam? Maybe now he can go apologize to them.

[HappyTexan]

Don't forget..American Bradley Manning is sitting in isolation somewhere as well with no charges and no trial in sight.

[Bjorn_Ironside32]

oh well...

how many more ''terrorists'' are in guantanamo bay?

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Don't forget..American Bradley Manning is sitting in isolation somewhere as well with no charges and no trial in sight.

He'll get his trial...and life in Leavenworth.

[arctichomesteader]

There's nothing right at all about someone being imprisoned for 9+ years without trial. It's a sick joke that people can claim to be defending freedom while behaving as any corrupt, authoritarian third world craphole behaves.

At this point anyone can be declared a "terrorist" and locked away. Or, Obama took it further, now Americans can be assassinated without trial...

[SourD]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

There's nothing right at all about someone being imprisoned for 9+ years without trial. It's a sick joke that people can claim to be defending freedom while behaving as any corrupt, authoritarian third world craphole behaves.

At this point anyone can be declared a "terrorist" and locked away. Or, Obama took it further, now Americans can be assassinated without trial...

Those are military prisons, that's how they work. They can hold them as long as military operations are ongoing. It has ALWAYS been like that.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by SourD

Those are military prisons, that's how they work. They can hold them as long as military operations are ongoing. It has ALWAYS been like that.

Even U.S. citizens? I'd like to know where you studied law...

And as for foreigners, multiple international laws have been broken in these detentions.

[01Snake]

Whether there was any truth to this story had still not been clearly established after nine years

So if this guy claimed his innocence, it must be true. Doesn't everyone in prison "say" they are innocent?

[Mouser]

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