Comments on: How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantánamo

By: Was Yesterday’s Habeas Corpus Ruling in Al-Bihani v. Obama a Victory For Bush’s DOJ? « By Meg White

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:39:30 +0000

[...] A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier ruling denying Ghaleb Nassar al-Bihani the right to challenge his detention at Guantánamo, where he has been held since 2002. The Yemeni national was picked up in Afghanistan where he says he was serving as a cook for Taliban forces fighting the Northern Alliance. [...]

By: An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Habeas Petition « freedetainees.org

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:15:00 +0000

[...] anything, Ismail — and other prisoners who have lost their habeas petitions, like Ghaleb al-Bihani, who served as a cook for Arab forces supporting the Taliban — should have been held as prisoners [...]

By: Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, Limits Guantánamo Prisoners’ Rights by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:23:41 +0000

[...] Appeals Court ruling dealt with the case of Ghaleb al-Bihani, a Yemeni who lost his habeas corpus petition, challenging the basis of his detention, in January last year, seven months after the habeas [...]

By: Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, Limits Guantánamo Prisoners’ Rights « freedetainees.org

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:29:12 +0000

By: “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition « freedetainees.org

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:20:54 +0000

[...] Guantánamo (January 2009), Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child (January 2009), How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantánamo (January 2009), Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics (February 2009), Bad News And Good News For The [...]

By: 116 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 171 Still In Limbo « freedetainees.org

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:00:32 +0000

[...] be used to endorse the indefinite detention of those who may have done nothing more than cook for Arab forces supporting the Taliban, or attend a military training camp in Afghanistan for one day [...]

By: Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:47:57 +0000

[...] out that they may be held for the rest of their lives for “crimes” no more egregious than, for example, cooking for an Arab fighting force supporting the Taliban in [...]

By: No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:36:20 +0000

[...] in January, when Judge Leon refused the habeas appeal of Ghaleb al-Bihani, a Yemeni who had worked as a cook for Arab forces supporting the Taliban, I made a comparison with [...]

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

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:49:16 +0000

[...] to be held as an “enemy combatant,” because he had worked as a cook for the Taliban. As I explained in an article at the time, Concluding that it was “not necessary” for the government to prove that he [...]

By: Obama’s First 100 Days: A Start On Guantánamo, But Not Enough « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 04 May 2009 23:16:29 +0000

[...] was sufficiently different from the views of other judges — for example, Judge Richard Leon, who “has been using a detention definition that gives the government more authority than the [...]