Comments on: Guantánamo: The Nobodies Formerly Known As Enemy Combatants

By: Habeas Hell: How The Great Writ Was Gutted At Guantánamo « Eurasia Review

Habeas Hell: How The Great Writ Was Gutted At Guantánamo « Eurasia Review — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:47:49 +0000

[...] any rights whatsoever. The only concession made by President Obama’s Justice Department was to drop the use of the term “enemy combatant,” which was a shrewd PR move, but did nothing to address the more fundamental problems outlined [...]

By: florence njoroge

florence njoroge — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:25:25 +0000

This is inhuman to the muslims,if i have a chance i will be glad to join al-shabab.

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

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:35:15 +0000

[...] convened for those accused of criminal endeavors and war crimes, and the “enemy combatants” (whatever they are now called) have been whittled won to just a few dozen men, the Supreme Court may have to step in to address [...]

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

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:29:28 +0000

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

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:21:12 +0000

[...] al-Madhwani joins the other eight prisoners whose petitions failed in a peculiar legal netherworld, no longer regarded as “enemy combatants” by the Obama administration, but still detained indefinitely as though they were. This is in spite [...]

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

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:49:33 +0000

[...] who supported al-Qaeda or the Taliban “were detainable only if the support was substantial.” As I explained at the time: As benign-sounding propaganda … this announcement has the alluring veneer of the “change” [...]

By: Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat « freedetainees.org

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:13:10 +0000

[...] fine words they may utter, they are, in practice, cleaving to the Bush administration’s insanely broad detention policies regarding “enemy combatants,” and are effectively failing to distinguish between [...]

By: Psyche, Science, and Society » Jawad finally ordered released!

Psyche, Science, and Society » Jawad finally ordered released! — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:43:53 +0000

[...] whatever fine words they may utter, they are, in practice, cleaving to the Bush administration’s insanely broad detention policies regarding “enemy combatants,” and are effectively failing to distinguish between genuine [...]

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

Mon, 04 May 2009 23:51:14 +0000

[...] I wrote at the time, this supposed change was actually worthless, as a close inspection of the government’s [...]

By: Justice Extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror « From The Wilderness

Justice Extends to Bagram, Guantánamo’s Dark Mirror « From The Wilderness — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:25:00 +0000

[...] redefine the terms of reference for “enemy combatants,” while the administration was scoring a propaganda point by dropping the use of the [...]