Comments on: Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child

By: WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo

WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:19 +0000

[...] a raid on mosque in Karachi, he was treated brutally at Guantánamo, but was finally freed after winning his habeas corpus petition in January [...]

By: WikiLeaks Reveals Yemenis Cleared For Guantanamo Release Up To Seven Years - OpEd

Fri, 13 May 2011 10:42:15 +0000

[...] has been excluded by judges in other habeas corpus petitions (see, for example, the case of Mohammed El-Gharani), and he has been singled out in the most recent media reports based in the WikiLeaks documents as [...]

By: WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exposes Detention Policy as a Construct of Lies « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:49:16 +0000

[...] D.C., Judge Richard Leon (an appointee of George W. Bush) excluded Basardah’s statements while granting the habeas corpus petition of Mohammed El-Gharani, a Chadian national who was just 14 years old when he was seized in a raid on a mosque in Pakistan. [...]

By: Gonzalo Gato Villegas » Blog Archive » ¿Sabe realmente Obama, le preocupa acaso, quién sigue en Guantánamo?

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:13:01 +0000

[...] más, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, un yemení atrapado en un albergue estudiantil en Pakistán, y Mohammed El-Gharani, un nacional del Chad, que sólo tenía catorce años cuando fue secuestrado en un asalto contra [...]

By: Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo? « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:07:21 +0000

[...] more examples, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a Yemeni seized in a student guest house in Pakistan, and Mohammed El-Gharani, a Chadian national, who was just 14 when he was seized in a raid on a mosque in Pakistan. In both [...]

By: ReasonAndJest.com » Do We Really Need This Gitmo? Do We Really Need Another ‘Rockefeller Republican’ General Running For President?

Wed, 19 May 2010 10:47:38 +0000

[...] Andy Worthington: Who Is the Syrian Released from Guantanamo to Bulgaria? In disputing Mouhammad’s story, the authorities not only alleged that the house was a safe house, which he “operated,” but also, over the years, built up a picture involving claims that he “trained in al-Qaeda camps” and “was a fighter in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan” (where a showdown between al-Qaeda and the U.S. military took place around the time of his capture). These are typical allegations leveled against those seized crossing the Pakistani border, but in the courts — the only objective forum in which allegations like these have been tested — judges have often dissected them and found them to be unpersuasive. [...]

By: The Black Hole of Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

The Black Hole of Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:17:55 +0000

[...] January 2002, in connection with a non-existent plot to bomb the US embassy, and the case against a Chadian national, who was a child at the time of his capture by Pakistani police in a raid on a mosque in [...]

By: Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions | themcglynn.com/theliberal.net

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:10:11 +0000

[...] supposed evidence – largely derived from the prisoners themselves, or from their fellow prisoners – is so “tainted” as to be useless and [...]

By: Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantanamo « freedetainees.org

Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantanamo « freedetainees.org — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:38:20 +0000

[...] adept at perceiving “generalized” and “generic” material masquerading as evidence, and the extent to which “detainees [had] implicated other detainees” (and, it should be noted, themselves), so [...]

By: Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:38:11 +0000

[...] credibility has been cast into serious doubt — and rejected” by Judge Leon in the case of Mohammed El-Gharani, because he “has made accusations against a number of detainees” at Guantánamo, and because [...]