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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1663
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 4:42 pm: | 
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http://villagevoice.com/news/0610,hentoff,72399,6.html
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"There are now about 490 prisoners at Gitmo, and "55 percent of the detainees are not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States or coalition allies.
"Only 8 percent of the detainees were characterized as Al Qaeda fighters. Of the remaining detainees, 40 percent have no definitive connection with Al Qaeda at all and 18 percent have no definitive affiliation with either Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
"Only 5 percent of the detainees were captured by United States forces. [A total of] 86 percent of the detainees were arrested by either Pakistan or the Northern Alliance and turned over to United States custody. This 86 percent of the detainees captured by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance were turned over to the United States at a time at which the United States offered large bounties for capture of suspected enemies."
The Northern Alliance included Afghan warlords—not noted, to say the least, for their concern for any due process in rounding up "suspects" or the quality of the "evidence," if any, connecting their captives with terrorism. But these warlords were attracted by the generous sums the U.S. gave them for these suspects—many of whom were then warehoused at Gitmo.
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Nohero
Supporter
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5120
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 4:47 pm: |
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Anyone who wants to read the whole report can download it from here -
http://law.shu.edu/news/guantanamo_report_final_2_08_06.pdf |
The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 953
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 4:51 pm: |
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fine...release 269.50 of them and leave he remaining 220.50.....
-SLK |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1664
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 4:55 pm: |
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What are you saying, Scrotis? That you disagree with the Bush Administration and believe these prisoners are entitled to due process and a day in court? Do you think it's right that Bush condones their torture?
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The SLK Effect
Citizen
Username: Scrotisloknows
Post Number: 955
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 5:10 pm: |
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I condone torture....but I also don't have a problem with GItmo or giving its prisioners due process and understand the difference between POWs and Enemy Combatants...read the 5th amendment closely...
-SLK |
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