Comments on: Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo

By: What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part Two): Executive Detention, Rendition, Review Boards, Released Prisoners and Trials « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:21:31 +0000

[...] of course, have plagued US operations in Afghanistan from the very beginning, as was demonstrated repeatedly with the Afghan prisoners in Guantánamo. In his article, he explained that the military “needs [...]

By: Get your News: Get live news from all around the world » Andy Worthington: Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantanamo?

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:41:52 +0000

[...] won his habeas corpus petition, these men are the first Afghans released since January 2009, when Haji Bismullah, who worked for the government of Hamid Karzai as the chief of transportation in a region of [...]

By: New Book: The Guantánamo Lawyers – and a talk by Jonathan Hafetz by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:31:50 +0000

[...] is about people like Afghan citizen Haji Bismullah, who the United States claimed was an “enemy combatant” and locked up for six years even though [...]

By: Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies « Dandelion Salad

Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies « Dandelion Salad — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:22:11 +0000

[...] the only liar whose false confessions have infected the government’s “evidence.” An Iraqi, repatriated in January, was also well-known in Guantánamo, as is Abdul Rahim al-Ginco, a Syrian “rescued” by US [...]

By: Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1) « Muslim in Suffer

Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1) « Muslim in Suffer — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:32:48 +0000

[...] because he is a US citizen, received 20-year sentence in 2002; see Chapters 2, 3, 8, 18, also see Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo) 002 RELEASED MAY 07 Hicks, David (Australia) Chapters 9, 15, 18, 19, 20, MILITARY COMMISSION [...]

By: freedetainees.org » No I Can’t: A Dissident to U.S. Empire But A Fighter For Humanity

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:40:03 +0000

[...] of Guantanamo Files, outlines six cases of detention that speak to this sham in a recent article. Andy Worthington. Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantanamo project at the Center for [...]

By: charlie ehlen

charlie ehlen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:41:25 +0000

Mr. Worthington,
Sir, thank you for another example of how our previous vice president has NO respect for truth, decency, or honesty at all. He and his “boss”, W. Shrub, need to be investigated and charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other various crimes.
As I have told you before, I am a former US Marine, Vietnam veteran, so I do consider myself to be an American patriot of sorts. I detest war having seen first hand what it does to all those caught up in it.
The lies of the previous administration make me ashamed to be an American citizen. The lies and distortions they have tried to pass off as truth are disgusting beyond my capacity to describe. It was a criminal gang who ran America for the last eight years, that is MY own personal opinion. The previous gang did all they could to destroy what semblance of decency existed in America. Their actions have cheapened America, possibly to the point of being irreversible.
So far, I do not see the “new” boss, Obama, doing much to change(a campaign slogan) recent actions of the government of America. The bombing by a drone of a village in Pakistan does not make me feel any “hope” for the future. Also, add the silence by Obama about the recent genocide in Gaza and you begin to understand my disgust with the “new” boss as well.
If this is the “change” that was part of his campaign, well, like the song said, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. We DID get fooled again.

By: Frances Madeson

Frances Madeson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:48:11 +0000

As much as it pains me to continue to read these accounts, as much self-will as it requires to train my eyes on these horrific images, I feel it is my duty to do so. To be that witness both to what they have endured and what you have recounted. I remind myself, a reading experience, even a painful one, is so different than actually living through these almost unbelievable events. Here’s what I have learned so far. There are people out there who will try their utmost to take your joy. They cannot. It’s not theirs to take.