Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainee With Ties to 9/11 Attacks

[kelvin070]

Is the US really a civilized country?

WASHINGTON — A suspected Al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantanamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Military prosecutors suspected Slahi of links to other Al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson granted Slahi's petition for habeas corpus, effectively finding the government lacked legal grounds to hold him. The order was classified, although the court said it planned to release a redacted public version in the coming weeks.

Plans to try him by military commission were derailed after prosecutors learned that Slahi had been subjected to a "special interrogation plan" involving weeks of physical and mental torment, including a death threat and a threat to bring Slahi's mother to Guantanamo Bay where she could be gang-raped, officials said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589769,00.html

 

[Peter Parka]

Hello stranger, long time no see, thought we hadn't had any anti American threads for a while. Well, it makes a change from threads about health care, at least!:thumbup

 

[dt3]

If we weren't civilized, we would have held him indefinitely :dunno

 

[kelvin070]

If we weren't civilized, we would have held him indefinitely :dunno

North Korea seems to be more civilized cuz they don't threaten to gang rape dentainee's mother.

 

[Peter Parka]

North Korea seems to be more civilized cuz they don't threaten to gang rape dentainee's mother.

Seeing they are so secretive about their political prisoners, I seriously doubt you can prove that

 

[edgray]

Seeing they are so secretive about their political prisoners, I seriously doubt you can prove that

very good point...