Pain at Guantanamo and paralysis in government
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
05/18/09
Although I reported last week about an important court case in favor of Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a Yemeni prisoner in Guantanamo, there was little in the way of progress, during the first 115 days of the Obama administration, for the men who are still held, despite the president’s pledge to close the prison within a year. Just one prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, had been released, out of the 241 prisoners still in Guantanamo, but that, it was clear, was simply because his well-chronicled torture in Morocco and Afghanistan had become a persistent irritant to both the British and American governments in courtrooms on both sides of the Atlantic...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0905h.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Binyam+Mohamed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
by Andy Worthington
05/18/09
Although I reported last week about an important court case in favor of Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a Yemeni prisoner in Guantanamo, there was little in the way of progress, during the first 115 days of the Obama administration, for the men who are still held, despite the president’s pledge to close the prison within a year. Just one prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, had been released, out of the 241 prisoners still in Guantanamo, but that, it was clear, was simply because his well-chronicled torture in Morocco and Afghanistan had become a persistent irritant to both the British and American governments in courtrooms on both sides of the Atlantic...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0905h.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Binyam+Mohamed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
rudkla - 19. Mai, 10:17
