Comments on: Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner Released To Chad

By: Who Is the Palestinian Released from Guantánamo in Spain? « freedetainees.org

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:20:16 +0000

[...] resident (Binyam Mohamed); May 2009 — 1 Bosnian Algerian (Lakhdar Boumediene); June 2009 — 1 Chadian (Mohammed El-Gharani), 4 Uighurs to Bermuda, 1 Iraqi, 3 Saudis (here and here); August 2009 — 1 [...]

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The Stories Of The Two Somalis Freed From Guantánamo « freedetainees.org — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:44:05 +0000

By: Obama’s Confusion Over Guantánamo Terror Trials by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:32:20 +0000

[...] four months of the new administration, and a spate of releases this week — a Chadian who was just 14 years old when he was seized, an Iraqi, three Saudis and four Uighurs who were sent to Bermuda — seems to [...]

By: The Last Iraqi In Guantánamo, Cleared Six Years Ago, Returns Home by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:45:17 +0000

[...] and while a few other commentators, myself included, noted that Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, Mohammed El-Gharani, had been released to his family’s home country of Chad — only one journalist, James Warren of [...]

By: the talking dog

the talking dog — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:10:19 +0000

Let’s keep score; adding the four Uighurs to Bermuda, Boumediene to France and Binyam to Britain… this takes us to seven released in nearly 5 months of the Obama Admin.- a dramatic increase in rate (to just over one a month!) that will empty GTMO in… around 12 years… I suppose if we count the one man dead on O’s watch and assume we’ll get some more of those as the injustice grinds on, we can lower the rate to 10 years or so… still well behind that “one year to close GTMO”.

Any release is a welcome one, but what we are seeing, alas, is the more publicly obvious ones, (and the “easier” ones, as Gharani, like the Uighurs, has won a habeas case) and in particular, cases that have some public pressure associated with them (and indeed, cases that have been featured prominently by none other than Mr. Worthington.)

It would appear that some level of public pressure works on the Obama Administration; we’ll just have to keep it up relentlessly.

By: The BRAD BLOG : 'Worst of the Worst'?: Gitmo's Youngest Prisoner, the 'Forgotten Child,' Released Without Charges

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:02:28 +0000

[...] Worthington, the man who literally wrote the book on the Guantanamo travesties, offers the sad background on the breaking news of the release of “Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child,” including details of [...]