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Taliban Shoe Shiners Should be Rooted Out

By Hanitizer

Share On January 28 of this year, a Federal Judge approed the holding of a guy who used to cook for the Taliban. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said that Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani’s work as an assistant cook with Taliban fighters made him an enemy combatant of the United States. This is reason enough… »

Jury Still Out on the Juryless Military Commissions

By Will

ShareSoldiers escort an enemy combatant The War on Terror suffered a major lexical loss yesterday when the Obama administration tossed the legalistic euphemism, and Bush invention, “enemy combatant” into the dustbin of shameful history. The Bush administration invented the term in order to circumvent preexisting legal structures that gave the accused an inconvenient array of… »

Some Former Gitmo Inmates Are SO Unappreciative

By Will

ShareCBS News reported that “Two Ex-Gitmo Detainees Renew Pledge To Attack Western Interests in New Al Qaeda Video.” It is apparent these two ex-prisoners did not get the “Stockholm syndrome.” Though it sounds like a Scandinavian STD, it’s a fuzzy psychological term that describes when people held captive come to empathize with their captors. As… »

Forbidden

By Nimr

ShareWhen detainees in Guantanamo are not being tortured by recent CIA recruit (and dominatrix) Dina Hayek, life is getting better.  Not only are they learning English as some of them might be released into the United States, they are finally getting fun activities.  The detainees are getting newspapers and even “movie night” (for some reason they are really interested… »

I Can’t Torture You… You Look Like Me

By Emily

ShareNot quite like the old days. In this NPR story that was on All Things Considered today (good lord i’m turning into my dad!), elderly former interrogators talk about their now declassified work in a secret POW camp near Washington D.C.. The “P.O. Box 1142″ highly classified interrogation center held top German scientists and other… »

Al-Hajj’s Heartbreaking Story of an Unjust Detention

By Maytha

ShareKnown to the American government as “prisoner #345,”former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Sami Al-Hajj was re-acquainted with his son who he last saw 7 years ago when the boy was 9 months old. Frail and malnourished from the effects of torture and a 2 year hunger strike, Al-Hajj’s weak body (strapped to an ambulance cot) was… »

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