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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:24PM
All you mouthbreathing Trump supporters, you chickenhawks, you posturing weenies, take fucking notice: torture not only does not work, it breeds new enemies. Every time you do this, an entire generation of new terrorists is born. Pay special attention to this, JMo, Uzzard, McGrew, and the few other lunatic nuts on here I've forgotten the names of: this message is for YOU.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:26PM
Okay, so tell us, where is the truth supposed to be tagged as Flamebait? A true statement cannot be slanderous or libelous at the same time.
And McGrew, is it true?* Are you a pro Guantanamo nutter? If it is, that would be very disappointing! I hope you wouldn't still claim to be a good Christian while dragging that chain behind you. For shame!
*I swear that wasn't on purpose!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @11:23PM
Nobody is "pro" Guantanamo Bay, you alarmingly stupid nitwit. You created a convenient strawman for you to knock over.
You want to know who's ANTI Guantanamo Bay? President Obama. Why don't you ask him why he didn't release this guy for the last 8 years?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @11:35PM
Except for [cbsnews.com] Republicans. [bloomberg.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:25AM
You are wrong. Anybody who votes republican is definitely pro Guantanamo. And most of the democrats don't give a shit, or they would have raised their voices and looked for candidates to elect that would shut it down. It is the ANTI Guantanamo people who are weak and ineffectual, maybe intentionally, and they have accomplished squat so far, accept aiding the recruitment of more terrorists. Of course we all know that's not entirely true. It's the US dollar [mirror.co.uk] that really recruits terrorists. If that ever really dries up, the best they'll ever do is blow up a lunch bag full of dog shit on your front porch, or egg your windows, like any other Halloween night. We don't need to believe the religious bullshit, it a ruse. So hop off that high horse of yours before you fall off.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 25 2016, @06:11PM
You need Congress to pay for Guantanamo's decommissioning. Guess who controls Congress right now...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @11:33PM
Some courts beg to differ. [techdirt.com]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 25 2016, @03:51AM
Christians LOVE Gitmo because it's a miniature of what they believe their God will do to anyone he doesn't like (translation: anyone THEY don't like...) for all of eternity.
My wake-up call out of that horrible religion was around age 14 when I realized that Yahweh was literally, no exaggeration, no Godwin, Infinite Hitler, the creator of an infinite, inescapable concentration camp full of fire and fear and pain and horror and misery for what amount to his political prisoners.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...