Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Terror Suspects Held at Guantanamo Bay Prison

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Source: FoxNews/AP

A federal judge ordered the release of five terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay prison for seven years without charges.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455364,00.html

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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AJ6J4200...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five of six Algerians must be released after nearly seven years of captivity at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled from the bench after holding the first hearings under a landmark Supreme Court ruling in June that gave Guantanamo prisoners the legal right to challenge their continued confinement.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has promised to close the prison camp after he takes office in January. Meanwhile, U.S. judges in Washington are moving ahead with case-by-case reviews of detainee legal challenges.

[Crazy Dave]

1. These were probably folks who lived in the same city as Osama

You wouldn't believe how many innocent people are currently locked up now with no charges and no legal representation, just a label, "suspected terrorist". Ordinary citizens get to cash in on reward money offered and even settle vendettas against their neighbors, merchants or people they don't like by telling US authorities those people are terrorists or that they set off a road side bomb. In one article I read that an Iraqi man turned his neighbor in so he could go after the guy's wife.

[Dappleganger]

2. This is HUGE!

[Stuart G]

3. Link to the article...and you will see it is a repudiation of guess who?

A certain fool's fool.

[Stuart G]

4. Here is a link in the New York Times for those who prefer that source

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/21guantanamo.html?...

It is a very important story.........

[Peace Patriot]

5. Close Gitmo and turn it into a convalascent hospital for Bush's victims.

Give it to the high quality Cuban health system to run.

Air it out. Take down the barbed wire. Plant gardens. Renovate. Make Halliburton pay for the renovation with our stolen billions. Pay for the prisoners to stay there as long as they want, or pay for their entry into whatever society will have them, including a lifetime of support for them and their families. Many will desperately need medical/psychiatric care. They won't trust U.S. doctors. (Can you blame them?) Cuba has excellent doctors, right there on the other end of the island--and they have a surplus. (They export doctors to run medical clinics in poor countries.) Let Cuba do it--and help heal Cuba/U.S. relations in the process.

[Judi Lynn]

10. They've been doing a remarkable job restoring victims of Chernobyl to health.

Cuba would provide an amazing place to recuperate!

FEATURE - Young Chernobyl Victims Heal in Cuban Sun
CUBA: July 6, 2005

TARARA - At a beach resort near Havana, children with bald heads and skin lesions splash with joy in the warm Caribbean sea.

They are victims of radiation fallout from the worst civilian disaster of the nuclear age -- the 1986 power plant explosion in Chernobyl -- and are in Cuba for treatment.
"I want to stay here," says Sveta, a blue-eyed 15-year-old from Ukraine's capital Kiev whose eyelashes are beginning to grow back.

Since 1990, communist Cuba has treated free of charge 18,000 Ukrainian children for hair loss, skin disorders, cancer, leukaemia and other illnesses attributed to the radioactivity unleashed by the reactor meltdown years before they were born.

Up to 800 children travel to the Tarara Paediatric Hospital each year for at least two months, accompanied by parents or tutors. Some stay for years. They live in bungalows built as beach houses by rich Cubans before Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

More:
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/3153...

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United Nations, April 28 2006
More than 18,000 children, victims of the disaster at Chernobyl´s nuclear station 20 years ago, have received assistance in Cuba, Cuban Ambassador to the UN Rodrigo Malmierca reported on Friday.

The Cuban permanent representative to the United Nations told a special session on the anniversary of the Tarara Humanitarian Program begun in 1990, that this program was especially designed for patients affected by that accident.

The children arrive in our country with different diseases or health conditions, from post-traumatic stress to cancer. They are diagnosed and receive all kinds of treatments, including bone marrow transplants for those who suffer from leukemia, the diplomat said.

He clarified that neither the Cuban State nor the people have ever asked a single penny for the cost of those treatments, because the right to life of Chernobyl children cannot be bought.

http://www.bhopal.net/otherbhopals/archives/2006/04/cub...

[WriteDown]

6. One question....

Where will they be sent now? I seriously doubt they want to go back to Algeria.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Darned good question

we have the same question arising on where the rest of them go when we close the holding facility at Gitmo.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

8. McClatchy, Miami Herald: Judge orders release of 5 in landmark Gitmo case

Posted on Thursday, 11.20.08 Recommend (0)share email print comment reprint
Judge orders release of 5 in landmark Gitmo case

BY MARISA TAYLOR
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men held for nearly seven years in Guantánamo Bay prison in the latest setback for the Bush administration's controversial detention policies.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, however, backed the continued imprisonment of a sixth Algerian from the same group, concluding that the Justice Department had sufficient evidence he was a supporter of al Qaeda.

One of those ordered released is Lakhdar Boumediene, 42,whose appeal to the Supreme Court became the underpinning of a 5-4 decision that gave Guantánamo prisoners the right to challenge their detention in court.

In an unusual entreaty Thursday, Leon urged the administration not to appeal his order releasing the five men. ''Seven years of waiting for our legal system to give them an answer to a question so important is in my judgment more than enough,'' said Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush.

Leon said he expected attorneys for the sixth detainee to appeal, giving both sides the opportunity to argue before a higher court.

Originally, Leon had found the men did not have a right to challenge their detention in his court. When the Supreme Court reversed Leon's ruling, it triggered a judicial review of dozens of Guantánamo cases.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/780491.htm...

[OKNancy]

11. kick