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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) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 25 2016, @04:09PM
Moron. Just because a lot of people draw those poor women in porn doesn't mean that's where they show up. If you're really wondering, imagine "Lilith Fair meets Power Rangers," the home series being "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon." Mercury is your stereotypical shy, mousy nerd, who happens to have been the planet Mercury's guardian spirit or somesuch and got reincarnated on Earth after the seat of power on the Moon was destroyed some uncountable number of years ago. Watching her fight, she's supposed to be themed around water, as in the Asian system Mercury is associated with that element, but most of her direct offense uses extremely low temperatures; hence, ergokinesis, not so much control over water as such. Her problem is lack of imagination; in her place I'd skip the "500 gallons of supercooled water in your face" approach and just drain the heat out of whatever it is I'm fighting with, then stick my boot through the resulting ice sculpture. A little Mortal Kombat-ish? Sure, but damn effective if you know what LN2 does to organic matter.
Being that the show is for teenagers (NOT kids, I don't know WTF the American localizers were thinking of when they brought it here...) there's a lot of comedy mixed in, but it's pretty damn dark in places and surprisingly full of nightmare fuel. If it didn't overall have an idealistic tone that would make Rousseau roll his eyes--seriously, Sailor Moon defeats not one but TWO end-season villains by basically mind-melding with them and working out their trauma from the inside--it'd be the Japanese version of the Marvel universe. None of the girls save Moon have anything resembling a normal family life, for one thing.
So why Mercury? Simple: that *was* me all those years ago. Pathetically shy, friendless, completely absorbed in studies, obsessive-compulsive about test scores, you name it. I even wanted to be a nurse or doctor at her age too. Thing is...she made friends at a critical point (see: idealism). I didn't. So it's interesting to watch, and see what could have been.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...