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Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo

posted by on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the they've-been-waterboarded-enough dept.

driven writes:

Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office.

[...] Oman said it accepted the prisoners at Obama's request. It did not name the prisoners.

"To meet a request by the US government to assist in settling the issue of the detainees at Guantanamo, out of consideration of their humanitarian situation, 10 people released from that prison arrived in the Sultanate of Oman for a temporary residency," a foreign ministry statement said.

19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were cleared for release just days ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday January 18 2017, @04:02AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @04:02AM (#455233)

    I've not made my mind up on that one. That could have just been the "fog of war". I think, more likely, the Afghans set that one up, intentionally. It's possible that our people knew what they were shooting at. But, whether they knew or not, they should have known. GPS, satellite mapping, blah, blah blah - they should have known.

    I have, for two very specific reasons:
    1. There is substantial evidence that the soldiers who actually carried out the attack radioed back to say, in essence, "Umm, the target you just gave us looks like a hospital. Are you sure this is legal?" and had their orders confirmed.
    2. When the first bomb hit, hospital personnel immediately got on the phone with their contact at the US command and told them exactly what was going on. The attack continued for 30 minutes, much more time than a commander would need to reach the units carrying out the attack and stop it.
    3. MSF had told the US military exactly where their hospital was, complete with exact GPS coordinates and marking the rooftop with a giant red cross just like they were supposed to. So anybody picking targets in the comfort of HQ somewhere had every opportunity to know what they were attacking.

    OK, so maybe the Afghans lied about what the target was, but the fact is that the US Army had every reason to know they were attacking a civilian hospital, and did so anyways. That is a clear and obvious war crime, under the First and Fourth Geneva Conventions [icrc.org].

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 18 2017, @02:43PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 18 2017, @02:43PM (#455414) Journal

    1. I've not seen that evidence - can't make a call on that.

    2. Yeah, good luck getting a telephone call through off-hours, and more so during an active operation.

    3. That is the most convincing evidence that I've seen. If our troops didn't know they were shooting at a hospital, then they were derelict in their duties.