A Taliban commander who helped seize the Afghan presidential palace spent nearly 6 years at Guantana

[Calista241]

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Title: A Taliban commander who helped seize the Afghan presidential palace spent nearly 6 years at Guantanamo, where he told a guard 'we will get you on the outside'

One of the Taliban fighters filmed celebrating the capture of Kabul at the Afghan presidential palace on Sunday has been identified as a former Guantanamo Bay prison inmate, who once told a guard there: "We will get you on the outside," according to prison records published by The New York Times.

In a victory speech, Gholam Ruhani had said that he was held at Guantanamo for nearly eight years.

In reality, Ruhani spent nearly six years at the American-run detention center in Cuba, according to records published by The Times in June.

The records show that Ruhani was one of the first Taliban fighters to be captured by the US after the September 11, 2001, attacks, entering the prison on the first day it opened in January 2002. He was repatriated to Afghanistan in December 2007, also under President George W. Bush's administration.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-commander-gholam-ruhani-once-threatened-guantanamo-guard-2021-8

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. Heckuva job Trumpy

[greenjar_01]

2. He shouldn't have been held at Guantanamo at all

And as for "we will get you on the outside," if they held a statement like that against every inmate who ever spouted off at a guard, there'd never be anyone let out of prison ever.

This is a propaganda article, and a very stupid one at that.

[ColinC]

3. Yep

[cstanleytech]

4. "He shouldn't have been held at Guantanamo at all" I would not say that what I would say is

that being held there should have only been long enough to determine if he committed any crime and to hold a trial so that justice could be served.
After that he should have been freed if found innocent and been jailed somewhere else if found guilty.
The actions though that those in our government decided on was both illegal in my opinion and ill advised to hold him and others there for years and its a mistake our government and country will be having to deal with for decades to come.

[greenjar_01]

5. The illegal detention center at Guantanamo Bay has no legitimacy at all

Not as a transport facility, not as a place to "hold a trial." None.

This guy was held in an illegal facility/torture center for six years with no charges. Americans blithely accept this arrangement, but the vast majority of people in the world recognize it for what it is: a long and ongoing human rights crisis and collapse of international law.

[cstanleytech]

6. Not for long term detention but for initially processing them

I could maybe see but after that they should have been routed to the US or whatever country they may have committed crimes in to stand trial but they should never have been held for years like they were.

[Spazito]

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