TRUTH IS OUT: Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent.

in time we will hear 'most' are innocent... just imprisoned as a propaganda trick...

Mohammed el-Gharani, a Chadian national and Saudi resident, was just 14 years old when he was seized by Pakistani forces in October 2001, in a raid on a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, 700 miles from the battlefields of Afghanistan.

El-Gharani's defense lawyers charge he was treated with appalling brutality. They say that, after being tortured in Pakistani custody, he was sold to U.S. forces, who flew him to a prison at Kandahar airport, where, he said, one particular soldier "would hold my penis, with scissors, and say he'd cut it off."

They claim his treatment did not improve in Guantanamo. Subjected relentlessly to racist abuse, because of the color of his skin, he was hung from his wrists on numerous occasions, and was also subjected to a regime of "enhanced" techniques to prepare him for interrogation -- including prolonged sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation and the use of painful stress positions -- that clearly constitute torture.

As a result of this and other abuse, including regular beatings by the guard force responsible for quelling even the most minor infractions of the rules, el-Gharani became deeply depressed, and tried to commit suicide on several occasions.

But last month, just days before President Barack Obama's inauguration, a federal judge, Richard Leon, ruled that the government had not proven that el-Gharani was an enemy combatant and said he must be released and sent home "forthwith." Judge Leon said the government had relied mainly on information from two other detainees at Guantanamo Bay whose reliability and credibility was questionable. He is unlikely to be released soon, however, because it is not clear if the government of Chad will accept him.....

.....The other "child soldier" still at Gitmo is Omar Khadr. He was taken into custody in Afghanistan at the age of 15, and was in the midst of his trial when President Obama's first executive orders suspended all Military Commission proceedings for 120 days pending a case-by-case review of all cases and mandated an inter-agency task force to review the Military Commission system and alternatives for prosecutions.

Khadr was born in Toronto, and is the only citizen of a Western country currently detained by U.S. authorities in Cuba. He was captured after a four-hour firefight in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan, and has spent the past six years at Guantanamo. He is charged with war crimes, providing support to terrorism and throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier.

But according to lawyers who were present at the hearing, the case against him was unraveling as the trial proceeded. Unintentionally released U.S. military documents revealed that original reports said that Kadr was not the person who threw the grenade, and additional testimony by government witnesses has proven "unreliable."

http://www.albionmonitor.com/0902a/copyright/gitmochildren.html
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"Leadership"? That's what that's called? Oh, boy.

Yeah, to admit the innocence of these poor people would have also required the acknowledgement of the farce we call the "war on terror" that resulted from blaming the September 11 attacks on Muslims based on the farcical "they attack us because they hate our freedoms" conspiracy theory.

Yeah, we invaded Afghanistan to make sure Unocal could build its natural gas pipeline. To make sure that gas gets to its ultimate destination, we need to stir up trouble in Pakistan. Once we get that under control, we continue on our "merry" way through Iraq, which had to be invaded and its leader murdered so we could build bases to guard the flow of oil and natural gas on its way through the rest of the Middle East through to Israel and its port of Haifa. And if you're still thinkin' Israel was formed to provide a homeland for the Jewish people, I gotta bridge I can sell ya. It's called "geopolitics", folks. And God help the US of A when true karmic justice arrives...

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Wilkerson, who first made the assertions in an Internet posting on Tuesday, told the AP he learned from briefings and by communicating with military commanders that the U.S. soon realized many Guantanamo detainees were innocent but nevertheless held them in hopes they could provide information for a "mosaic" of intelligence.

"It did not matter if a detainee were innocent. Indeed, because he lived in Afghanistan and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance," Wilkerson wrote in the blog. He said intelligence analysts hoped to gather "sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified."

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