Comments on: Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies

By: Happy 8th Birthday Gitmo: an interview with watchdog Andy Worthington « Pluto Press – Independent Progressive Publishing

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:29:07 +0000

[...] his habeas corpus petition last May and was finally released by Obama in October. There were around 15 other men seized in that house — eight of whom are Yemenis — but although one was cleared for [...]

By: The Liberty Voice » Web-Only Content » “On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Yemen, Lies, Hysteria and the False Recidivism Report”

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:09:22 +0000

[...] and ran through a few of the men’s stories, to demonstrate how innocent men — some of them students seized in a house raid in Pakistan — are being made to pay the price for political opportunism and presidential [...]

By: Guantánamo and Yemen: Obama Capitulates to Critics and Suspends Prisoner Transfers « Dark Politricks Retweeted

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:48:11 +0000

[...] sense to defuse the “recruiting tool” sooner rather than later, sending back some more of the patently innocent Yemenis still in Guantánamo rather than allowing the eighth anniversary of the prison’s opening on [...]

By: On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Yemen, Lies, Hysteria and the False Recidivism Report « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:19:58 +0000

By: Guantánamo and Yemen: Obama Capitulates to Critics and Suspends Prisoner Transfers by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:32:15 +0000

[...] more sense to defuse the “recruiting tool” sooner rather than later, sending back some more of the patently innocent Yemenis still in Guantánamo rather than allowing the eighth anniversary of the prison’s opening on [...]

By: Innocent Guantánamo Torture Victim Fouad al-Rabiah Is Released In Kuwait « freedetainees.org

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:39:45 +0000

[...] And Unreliable Witnesses (May 2009), Pain At Guantánamo And Paralysis In Government (May 2009), Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies (May 2009), Free The Guantánamo Uighurs! (May 2009), Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): [...]

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

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:26:25 +0000

[...] unreliable witnesses and dubious “mosaics” of intelligence, but also because she suggested that her ruling had ramifications for the cases of some, or all of the other men seized with Ali Ahmed, when she stated, “It is [...]

By: Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:58:12 +0000

[...] if you were imprisoned for seven years without charge or trial, and then a judge ruled that the government’s case against you consisted solely of unreliable allegations made by other [...]

By: The Lies Told About The Saudi Hunger Striker Released From Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:17:44 +0000

[...] can no longer be borne by those who are held in custody.” And yet, one year later, either through Justice Department obstruction, or the slow deliberations of Obama’s Guantánamo Task Force, Justice Kennedy’s words have [...]

By: Forgotten: The Second Anniversary Of A Guantánamo Suicide by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:37:34 +0000

[...] two Yemeni prisoners have had their habeas corpus petitions granted by US courts (and more are likely to follow), and with each passing day it becomes more apparent that President Obama’s promise to close [...]