The Hollywood Liberal

There is a story out this morning that Colin Powell who apparently had finally decided to get his nose out of Bush’s Ass is calling for The Immediate Closing of Guantanamo Prison As of now 380 people are still being held without charges in the Bush’s Gulag at Guantanamo. The prison was documented in a movie that was out last year called The Road To Guantanamo. Sami al-Haj is a Sudanese journalist who just marked 5 years at Guantanamo, he is still reporting on what is going on there when he can, and confirms everything that was in the movie.

Reporting on life behind the wire: The Sudanese journalist held in Guantanamo Bay

Independent U.K.
Excerpt
Sami al-Haj is a Sudanese journalist who was captured on his first assignment for Al Jazeera and has been detained without charge in Guantanamo Bay since June 2002. But, remarkably, imprisonment hasn’t stopped him reporting on life behind the wire. Andrew Buncombe tells his story and talks to those he left behind…
Haj – prisoner identification number 345 – is one of around 380 detainees still being held at the prison located at a US naval base located on the south-east coast of Cuba. Yet he is unique among the prisoners in that he is the only one who was seized and detained while working as a journalist. It was while working as a cameraman for the Al Jazeera network that Haj was seized by the Pakistani authorities as he was trying to enter Afghanistan in December 2001. He had a valid visa but that made no difference to either the Pakistanis who grabbed him or the Americans who held Haj without charge – first at Bagram Airbase and then at Guantanamo. The seventh of June marked the fifth anniversary of his imprisonment at that off-bounds, “Alice-in-Wonderland” jail in the Caribbean.

HL’s Take
This whole situation is a disgrace. 5 years without being charged, being held on a rat infested in Cuba, all because Bush would make himself look even worse (is that still possible) if he let them go. Obviously they have nothing to charge them with or they would have by now. It’s all just a part of the legacy of the Worst President ever.

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