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After 14 long years languishing at Guantánamo without charge or trial, Mohamedou Slahi has finally been cleared for release.
Slahi was born in Mauritania in 1970 and won a scholarship to attend college in Germany. In the early 1990s, he fought with al-Qaeda when it was part of the Afghan anti-communist resistance supported by the U.S. The federal district court judge who reviewed all the evidence in Slahi's habeas corpus case noted that the group then was very different from the one that later came into existence.
Slahi worked in Germany for several years as an engineer and returned to Mauritania in 2000.
Slahi turned himself in to Mauritanian authorities for questioning about the Millennium Plot on November 20, 2001. He was detained for seven days and questioned by Mauritanian officers and by agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[5] The CIA rendered him to a Jordanian prison, where he was held for eight months. Slahi states that he was tortured by the Jordanians. After being flown to Afghanistan and held for two weeks, he was transferred to military custody and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba on August 4, 2002.[6]
Slahi was subjected to isolation, temperature extremes, beatings and sexual humiliation at Guantánamo. In one documented incident, he was blindfolded and taken out to sea in a boat for a mock execution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamedou_Ould_Slahi
(Score: 5, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:23PM
While I don't disagree with you (I even modded you up) it's also at this point in time noting that Frau Clinton is at least as much of a warhawk as he is.
A friend of mine told a joke the other night to me that was quite amusing:
"Is your refrigerator running?"
"Uh... yes?"
"I'd vote for it."
Vote Stein.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:28PM
Yeah, we're in shit up to our eyeballs. Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Sanders (TM).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:01AM
Sanders was not a serious candidate and he backed the corrupt system. Bernie was a complete fraud, by not standing up to Hilary on her actions in Libya and her misuse of classified material.
Good job!
If you don't like all the H1b visa workers or the TPP there is only one candidate who has stood against it.
Trump
You Bernie bums need to understand how bad voting for Hilary is on trade alone.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/21/donald-trump/donald-trumps-largely-accurate-about-clintons-past/ [politifact.com]
Trump actually cares about America here's a video from 1988 on Oprah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZpMJeynBeg [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:53PM
> Frau Clinton is at least as much of a warhawk as he is.
Er, no. Trump wants to tear down stabilizing alliances like NATO and to leave japan and south korea on their own to arm up with nukes.
That's a whole level of war promotion that clinton would never do.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:08AM
At least? Look at her track record. She's the biggest war hawk that ran in this election. None of the others compare.
Don't forget that most states have one or two other parties on the ballot. This not a binary choice, no matter how much the two major parties want you to think so. Vote for someone, not against these two chuckleheads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @05:15AM
> At least? Look at her track record. She's the biggest war hawk that ran in this election. None of the others compare.
The biggest war hawk among the democrats who ran.
She's leading from behind when compared to most of the GOP candidates. [washingtonpost.com]