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At Guantanamo Bay..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4708946.stm

Quote:

After the appalling attacks of 11 September 2001, most Americans supported the idea of locking up men who had fought for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

President George W Bush himself has assured them that the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay are "the worst of the worst".

information released by the US defence department revealed last week that 92% of the 517 Guantanamo detainees had not been al-Qaeda fighters.

Of these, 40% have no clear connection with al-Qaeda, and 18% have no connection with either al-Qaeda or the Taleban.

Most detainees are regarded as enemy combatants.

Among the criteria reportedly used to define an enemy combatant are these: possession of a rifle; possession of a Casio watch; and wearing olive drab clothing.

In Afghanistan it has long been regarded as normal for every adult male to have a gun, because there was so much violence in the country.

Casio watches and olive-coloured clothes can be bought in every market in every town in the country.

 

[DaveW]

Yes but by taking all these people off the streets over there, they can claim to have successfully lowered the unemloyment rate, thusly claiming the invasion was a success.

 

[Kevin]

I didnt need a press release to figure that out.
Guantanamo bay shows just how powerfull the US is and that they are not afraid to use that power.
Human rights are being violated and people are being tortured, and the "funny" thing is the US gets away with it while the whole world is busy hating muslims.

 

[jimmydean]

Not to mention the fact that a lot of the people being held there have been there for 4 or more years!

It's one thing to lock someone up until you can bring charges against them. But locking them up in hopes of some day getting around to charging them with something is the worst thing we could do.

Isn't that what we did during WW2? Lock up Asians because "we were at war".