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Never Knowing when to shut up!
Today’s Observer,
reports that apparently a
has been reached on the return of the nine British detainees
from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Under the agreement, the
nine British detainees will be sent back to Britain, either after
pleading guilty to charges in America and being sent to serve
their sentences in British prisons, or without being
charged.
See that last part there? without being charged It took 2
years for them to figure out that the men they had weren’t
terrorists? This is why legal systems have due process and
prisoners have rights. The men at Guantanamo have no rights and
it’s a disgrace. It’s disgusting and I have no doubt that a future
US president will have to apologise for the whole debacle.
At least two of the prisoners, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, the
so-called ‘Tipton Two’ are expected to be freed. Hopefully when
these guys get to tell their stories, pressure will really mount
on America to end the whole endeavor. If 2 out of the 9 Briton’s
definitely aren’t terrorists then what does that tell you if you
expand that percentage across the whole camp? You get a lot of
innocent men, who the US government has declared evil men etc..
‘However it seems highly improbable that Iqbal and Rasul will be
charged with anything. There simply is nothing there.’
It appears that Downing Street would be comfortable with some
charges being brought but it is clear that the British Government
could not guarantee a trial of anyone sent back to the UK, one of
the original demands made by the US.
‘The Americans just want these people to plead guilty so that it
looks as if they have been telling the truth that these are all
“bad dudes”,’ Stafford Smith said. ‘We know that is nonsense.
There is no evidence of any kind against them. In one man’s case
all he was doing was running a school.’
Stafford Smith said Iqbal had been taken abroad for an arranged
marriage by his parents who were concerned about his ‘westernised
ways’, including a fondness for Manchester United.
He disappeared on his stag night and turned up several weeks later
in an Afghan jail. At the time the US was offering local people
$4,500 to hand in ‘foreign Taliban fighters’.
‘The idea this rowdy football supporter from Tipton is a terrorist
is laughable,’ Stafford Smith said. ‘He doesn’t know how to load a
gun.’
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