How stupid does the Bush administration think we are.

Mr. Incognito

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081208/us_nm/us_guantanamo_hearings_pleas

So, after five years detention, with scare a word between them all the top suspects in Gitmo have all decided to plead guilty a month before Gitmo is due to close, in a letter no less.

Yeah right. :rolleyes:

Probably signed in their own blood.

ScumLord

They could just be looking for publicity. Guantanamo got their cause allot of press and now that it's about to go maybe they need a new way of getting into the headlines.

I'm not saying that's the way it is but it wouldn't surprise me.

gillyfromlyre

To reply to the thread opener, dumb enough to have voted in fianna fail again

Mark200

I think they all pleaded guilty because Obama wants to close Guantanamo so there's a chance they may not be given the death penalty. ie not die martyrs

Manic Moran

Maybe they figured that a likely result of Gitmo closing was that they were could be returned to their home countries? A US prison is probably going to be a far less unpleasant alternative than prisons in places like Saudi or Pakistan.

NTM

Hobbes

Manic Moran wrote: »

Maybe they figured that a likely result of Gitmo closing was that they were could be returned to their home countries? A US prison is probably going to be a far less unpleasant alternative than prisons in places like Saudi or Pakistan.

NTM

Your assuming that everyone from gitmo gets sent to a prison in their home country. Which is nearly not the case.

what is more likely to happen is they are dumped in the city of the country where the military plane lands and no cash given to get home. Certainly this is what happened to others dropped back to Pakistan after they found out they were innocent after all.

Some of these people have family and jobs that they basically disappeared. I mean if US citizens who disappear for a couple of days only to find their house and job gone when they get back, imagine what it is like for some of these people who are missing for years.

ScumLord

Hobbes wrote: »

Your assuming that everyone from gitmo gets sent to a prison in their home country. Which is nearly not the case.

what is more likely to happen is they are dumped in the city of the country where the military plane lands and no cash given to get home.

I thought they'd just be moved to other prisons? By letting them go it implies there was no guilt in the first place.

ShooterSF

Yes damn those Americans. The only country in the world that intimidates prisoners into signing confessions (allegedly).

Cuddlesworth

ScumLord wrote: »

I thought they'd just be moved to other prisons? By letting them go it implies there was no guilt in the first place.

Considering they operated on the Guilty until we can't be arsed principle, that would be about right.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed pleaded guilty ages ago