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KaineD -> RE: Innocent man released from Gitmo after 7 and 1/2 years (6/10/2009 12:16:19 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mezrem
If he was a clerk for AQ then guess what he was in support of terrorism. I admit though that 7.5 years is a long time to wait for a trail, and it should have happened ealier. I would like to point out as well that just beause he was not found guilty does not mean he did not do anything or was being held for no reason. How many times have we all heard of a DA's ase falling through for lack of evidence.
He was not tortured though and do state such is a lie out and out. As is the statement that he was scooped up days after 9/11/2001 when the organization he was accused of clerked for killed thousands of us. I also hold fast that this man should not have been allowed access to the US civil court system but rather should have been put though a military trail.
As I said above I do believe that these men should be given a trial. If we do not have cause to hold them they should be set free. What I don't care for is the blanket assertion that ALL of these men where tortured. Right or wrong three recieved torture or EITs depending on what side of the fence you are on. We can not change that fact. Did we recieve information we could not under other means and in time enough for the information to be relivent... I don't know and in the end if you don't have the clearance you don't either.
I do find it amazing that after eight years when all of this comes to a head folks on the left are willing to allow thier own to skate through on a pass. They where there some disagreed at times true.. but on some things they where silent or even agreed. Now they forgot.. or they where lied to..
Uh, yeah, not a single scrap of research went into that post.
Firstly, where are you getting this that he was a clerk for AQ? Lakhdar Boumediene worked for the red crescent, a HUMANITARIAN movement. It's part of the Red Cross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cross
"The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide[1] which started to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502263.html
"Boumediene, who at the time was an aid worker with the Red Crescent, was arrested in Bosnia in October 2001 along with five other Algerians accused of plotting to blow up the U.S. and British embassies in Sarajevo, charges that were later withdrawn."
I mean seriously, where do you get off calling a humanitarian aid worker a terrorist with absolutely no basis?
What's shocking about this case too is that the charges against him were dropped, and then the US military stepped in and threw him in Gitmo anyway. This man had to win TWO court battles for his freedom.
He has been proven not guilty and released. He says that he was tortured. The words of an innocent man can't be ignored.
And the ignorance of this statement...
How many times have we all heard of a DA's ase falling through for lack of evidence.
Yeah, the burden of proof is on the accusers. And if there is a lack of evidence, the case SHOULD fall through. That's the very reason we have trials. Innocent until proven guilty.
What age are you?
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