Unclear on the Concept
perhaps unclear that there is a concept
A U.N. human rights expert [and Finnish law professor] applauded the Obama administration Tuesday for pledging to turn a page in U.S. history by closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, but said the full extent of abuse at the camp needs to be revealed.
“Before a page can be turned, we have to know what’s on it in order to move forward,” said Martin Scheinin, who reports to the United Nations on human rights in the international war on terror.Scheinin asked to be allowed into the camp to conduct private interviews with the remaining detainees.
So what does he have to say about this fella?
The Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration’s efforts to close the prison. U.S. authorities handed over the detainee to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials.
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.
...Pentagon officials have said that as many as 60 former detainees have resurfaced on foreign battlefields.
Yeah. Let’s let all the poor little goat herders run free.
Plan B: Let him hold private interviews - with all of them at once. Him and them in a big room. We’ll wait outside for a couple of hours.
Posted by ZZMike on 03/11/09 at 12:55 PM
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