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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: 3, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:16PM
Yes, but if we don't create terrerists, what will we live in fear of? How would we justify the military industrial complex with billions and billions of dollars of pork? Won't somebody think of the military families out there!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:57PM
Yes, but if we don't create terrerists, what will we live in fear of? How would we justify the military industrial complex with billions and billions of dollars of pork? Won't somebody think of the military families out there!
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the American Military-Industrial Complex faced the greatest challenge of its existence: The Search for a Budget-justifying Enemy. Radical extremist Islam was the best they could come up with.
(Score: 3, Informative) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:33PM
Won't somebody think of the military families out there!
Yes, Please! [marketplace.org]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @11:40PM
Its [dailykos.com] worse [usuncut.com] than [militarytimes.com] that. [wonkette.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @03:54AM
However nowadays many wars are to transfer wealth and resources from your own people ;).