truthout.org — What makes this story even more shocking is that al-Rabiah's innocence was established in the summer of 2002, when a CIA analyst and an Arabic expert interviewed him as part of a fact-finding mission to Guantánamo, which revealed that a large number of the men held "had no connection to terrorism whatsoever."
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valklerouxDec 11, 2009
Jeez. You must just listen to your own reasoning. If I must go by your standards it sounds like America is one dangerous place to stay in. Bombs can explode anytime. You are 24/7 under threat. BUT your not. It's more the case in Irak and in Afghanistan. Places that your country invaded. From bulls**t information that was obtained through torture. And one more thing. How the f**k would you feel if the same happens to you? If you are suddenly made out as an terrorist? Put yourself just for once in other peoples shoes and stop being such a stupid fundamentalist prick.
black6xDec 11, 2009
@Nullx42, you forgot the /s. Diggers can't understand sarcasm without it.
moulin1Dec 11, 2009
No one suggested you were a "badass". As best as I can figure you are being called a morally bankrupt worm. That's hardly a "badass".
chloemsDec 11, 2009
It's called, BushAmerica!
lastvisibledogDec 11, 2009
In related news:2,976 completely innocent people killed by Islamic Terrorism on 9/11/2001 remain dead.
buckrogers1965Dec 12, 2009
Prove it in a court of law. The FBI doesn't even list Osama for 9/11.<a class="user" href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.h ...</a>
johnnysoftwareDec 12, 2009
To answer how badly this country needs oil (ignoring if it acts badly to get it or not), do this simple exercise:Walk across the entire area of the floor in your house or office that you currently stand on, touching each object that in any way has any material, packaging, or decoration made with petroleum based compounds (plastic, paint, synthetic fabrics, fake wood veneer, computer screens, electronics face plates, corrective eye lenses, stuff in your pockets, tags sewn inside clothing ...). Computer chips too but nobody is going to try to touch them and give them static-discharge damage, especially in dry wintertime - I hope.At the end, you are going to be one of 3 things:1. Lazy - too lazy to do it.2. Ignorant - too under-informed by educators or your own efforts to realize how much stuff this is.3. Tired - because it is really a lot of stuff.I just did it, though I just went through the motions in some places. I only touched some of the plastic items per individual shelf. I did not open any boxes with plastic packaging inside (e.g. food packages made of cardboard boxes with plastic bags inside). It was a ton of stuff, and I just thought of a couple plastic things in kitchen drawers I should have opened.So I guess I am lazy. And, even though I knew what types of things are petroleum based, I was ignorant until I did this of how much stuff in the house includes petroleum-based materials.Now, what are we doing right now as a culture: scrabbling, screaming, and scrambling for oil - telling other nations they need to modernize and make plastic-encrusted goods and burn tons of fuel like us, and putting off for another few decades any serious efforts to make renewable energy a significant source of power.In other words, we should be cutting back on power and oil-based manufacturing because so far it looks like renewable energy has a lot lower yield than that stuff we burn up. Instead, we are driving as fast as we can to run out of the fuels our civilization really depends on - and encouraging other even more populous continents to burn it even faster than we can do it ourselves!Over half the obtainable oil in the earth is gone and the rest is going to last a fraction of time that the automobile has been on earth. I am not saying what we have to do. I am just saying we are going to run out of oil really fast. So just do one thing: figure out how much oil-based stuff you have in your house and how much fossil fuels you and your country burn. Just know.And then ask yourself if our course, and the course we are pushing others on right now too, makes the most sense - or the least. Just know and wonder, maybe we need to slow down on a couple things and speed up on a couple other things?
flowerguerrillaDec 12, 2009
Charlie, torture is illegal under int'l law. Whoever tortures should be punished. We do not punish torture by torturing others. That's what civiliazation is about. If you know about the Aghanistan people and their history, you'll see it's the war lords who are working for the government (in this case Karzai who are the ones doing these things, probably trained by the CIA)Obama is a puppet to the oligarch who want the war to continue until the US has complete control over the region under the guise of 'democracy building'. Afghanistan HAS NEVER HAD A CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT that the people supported except only for returned favors. There is no loyalty. Because the mountainous geography isolates tribe (there are extremely different features among Afghanis - blue eyes in some tribes, etc. - since they stay w/in their own tribes), it's a good question, why someone as intelligent as Obama would try to enforce a central government. It's very suspicious.Here's a history of the Afghanistan during the age of Empire. Hope it helps w/your perspective! ThanksInsight: David Loyn - Afghanistan - 200 years of intervention<a class="user" href="http://blip.tv/file/1341892/" rel="nofollow">http://blip.tv/file/1341892/</a>
Closed AccountDec 14, 2009
Even if they're guilty we can't keep them from attacking us?