Guantanamo Inmates Despair of Ever Leaving

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060305/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_the_long_wait

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Ahamed Abdul Aziz has been in the Guantanamo Bay prison for more than three years and, by his account, has been interrogated 50 times without being charged with any crime. He waits with anguish for freedom but fears it will never come.

"We are in a grave here," he told his lawyers, echoing the despair felt by many of the roughly 490 prisoners held as suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. Charges have been filed against only 10 of them.

Transcripts of hearings, which the Pentagon released Friday after a successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The Associated Press, show the frustration among prisoners waiting for the military to decide whether to charge them, transfer them or release them.

"I don't want to spend any more time here. Not one more minute," Afghan prisoner Mohammed Gul said at a combat status review tribunal.

Another unidentified Afghan man told his tribunal: "I was not a Taliban. I was not against the Americans. I want to go home."

[951-Riverside]

1. ...I wonder why this was quickly removed from LBN

and shoved to editorial?

If it wasnt appropriate for LBN it should have been moved to General Discussion.

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2. I agree.

Though the transcripts were released on Friday, the contents are coming out now. This is an extremely important story, with real words from real human beings in prison without charges and without limits on their treatment, or on the length of their sentence.

Nominating. This needs to go onto the Greatest page, where it will get more attention than in this forum.

[Mr_Spock]

3. It's like China there...

You get thrown in jail but never accused of anything - sentence length = undetermined...

[Joanne98]

4. Faux News reported that one prisoner said it was paradise....

"They even give us juice".

[Mnemosyne]

5. And lemon fucking chicken. Evil. n/t

[Pachamama]

6. Umm, mods...this is not an editorial but rather a very impt. story!

:shrug:

I guess this story is being put into the memory hole, just like these prisoners....I mean, detainees...

Have they ever been charged with anything? Just wondering.... :eyes:

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7. kick