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Most Guantanamo detainees are innocent

callig · 2009-10-01 13:29:40

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/19/guantanamo-detainee-innocent.html It's six months since this story broke and no one has been let go yet. What does Obama hope to achieve by keeping innocent people locked up?

01-10-2009 1:29pm

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Some 800 men have been held at Guantanamo since the prison opened in January 2002, and 240 remain. Wilkerson said two dozen are considered terrorists, including confessed Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was transferred to Guantanamo from CIA custody in September 2006.

"We need to put those people in a high-security prison like the one in Colorado, forget them and throw away the key," Wilkerson said. "We can't try them because we tortured them and didn't keep an evidence trail."

But the rest of the detainees need to be released, he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/19/guantanamo-detainee-innocent.html

Obama's administration is now evaluating what to do with the prisoners who remain at the U.S. military base in Cuba.

It's six months since this story broke and no one has been let go yet.

What does Obama hope to achieve by keeping innocent people locked up?

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#2 01-10-2009 1:47pm

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#3 01-10-2009 2:08pm

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callig wrote: »

It's six months since this story broke and no one has been let go yet.

What does Obama hope to achieve by keeping innocent people locked up?

That's that exactly true.

Sure two inmates have been sent to Ireland just last week I think it was.

The prison is going to closed next year.

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#5 01-10-2009 2:42pm

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Apologies to the OP: We had a discussion on Gitmo in 1st Quarter 09' that went on for a week or two, you can read it here and add your thoughts/bump the thread

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055467562

Buffy the bitch wrote: »

That's that exactly true.

Sure two inmates have been sent to Ireland just last week I think it was.

The prison is going to closed next year.

No its not. Keep up.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n195625

Its been a matter of speculation from the beginning but its becoming a certainty the facility will not be closed. Blight as it is on the American Image.

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#6 01-10-2009 3:12pm

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excerpt from the link above

Most of the 225 prisoners remaining at the US naval base on Cuba have been deemed harmless by the Pentagon.

So let them go!

They can be released right now ,it's not necessacry to wait for a facility to be closed to release a detainee. FFS

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#7 01-10-2009 3:29pm

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