Judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee

[kpete]

Source: Salon

MONDAY Aug 16, 2010 18:38 ET
Judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee
By Associated Press

A federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee imprisoned at the island facility for more than 8 1/2 years.

In a previously secret ruling written in July and released Monday, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy said the Obama administration failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the Yemeni man was part of al-Qaida or an associated force.

The government alleged that an al-Qaida recruiter encouraged the man to go to Afghanistan to receive military training. The detainee, Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, says he went to the region after being promised free medical care for head injuries suffered in a car accident in his home country.

"The evidence shows that Latif did have an injury that continued to affect him in 2001 and for which he might therefore have sought treatment," wrote the judge.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/wires/politics/08/16/D9HKRRFG0_us_guantanamo_detainee/index.html

[Francesca9]

1. Good

[Loudmxr]

2. Quick call Michael Medved so he can part with some of his cash to make up

for calling this guy all those names and saying there's no proof of an innocent man in Gitmo and ... why waste my time.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r