Late, Late Night FDL: Sex Kills
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 25th, 2011 4:38 am by HL
Late, Late Night FDL: Sex Kills
Joni Mitchell – Sex Kills
Joni Mitchell – Sex Kills (Lyrics)
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A real confidence builder
Leaked documents bring the banality of GITMO and much of the so-called War on Terror back to light.
An iconic image of GITMO from NewsHour at flickr.com
The New York Times has published files related to the prisoners of GITMO since the Fall of 2001 and the details are about as uninspiring and depressing as you would imagine…though it could get more depressing in a pinch.
In May 2003, for example, Afghan forces captured Prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, near the scene of a roadside bomb explosion, the documents show. He denied any involvement, saying he was a shepherd. Guantánamo debriefers and analysts agreed, citing his consistent story, his knowledge of herding animals and his ignorance of “simple military and political concepts,” according to his assessment. Yet a military tribunal declared him an “enemy combatant” anyway, and he was not sent home until 2006.
That’s a real endorsement of the military tribunals. I’m sure this gentlemen is now a real fan of American values.
And speaking of which:
The documents show that a major reason a Sudanese cameraman for Al Jazeera, Sami al-Hajj, was held at Guantánamo for six years was for questioning about the television network’s “training program, telecommunications equipment, and newsgathering operations in Chechnya, Kosovo, and Afghanistan…He was released in 2008 and returned to work for Al Jazeera.
I guess it could have been worse, the Bush Administration could have “accidentally” blown him up again and again and again.
