Comments on: The Lies Told About The Saudi Hunger Striker Released From Guantánamo

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

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:20:31 +0000

[...] June 2009 — 1 Chadian (Mohammed El-Gharani), 4 Uighurs to Bermuda, 1 Iraqi, 3 Saudis (here and here); August 2009 — 1 Afghan (Mohamed Jawad), 2 Syrians to Portugal; September 2009 — 1 Yemeni, 2 [...]

By: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now! « Dandelion Salad

Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now! « Dandelion Salad — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:26:14 +0000

[...] were recently released in Bermuda, about the three Saudis who were also released (and especially Ahmed Zuhair, Guantánamo’s longest-term hunger striker), and about my world exclusive published last week, [...]

By: 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:11:46 +0000

[...] Three others are Saudis, and although their identities have not been revealed, and it is uncertain if they are the three remaining Saudis who were cleared for release during the Bush administration, there appears to be no good reason for their continued detention, as I explained in an article in March, when six cleared Saudis were held, and before three were released (see here and here). [...]

By: The Story of Oybek Jabbarov, An Innocent Man Freed From Guantánamo « freedetainees.org

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:34:18 +0000

[...] Boumediene); June 2009 — 1 Chadian (Mohammed El-Gharani), 4 Uighurs, 1 Iraqi, 3 Saudis (here and here), August 2009 — 1 Afghan (Mohamed Jawad), 2 Syrians to [...]

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

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:03:36 +0000

[...] were finally released in Bermuda in June) and three Saudis released in the same month (see here and here), this leaves a total of 38 prisoners still at Guantánamo whose transfer from Guantánamo was [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:05:11 +0000

Hi Will,
Excellent comments. Particularly impressed with “We still have a suspended Constitution and Bill of Rights, still fighting two illegal wars, still borrowing billions from our ‘enemies’ in Communist China.”

Nothing for it but to keep chipping away. I’m still hopeful that we can get Guantanamo closed, with trials for a few and repatriation/new countries for most, but am less convinced that there’s actually going to be a thorough de-Rumsfeldization of the US military, even though it’s desperately needed.

It is sadly, far too easy to see how discarding the Geneva Conventions allows more room for interrogation, and on we go, until hooded prisoners are hanging by their wrists again …

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Hi TD,
Thanks for the comments. I can’t really argue with the dystopian picture of the ongoing national security state, as implemented by Cheney/Bush, but, at least with regard to Guantanamo, am hoping that “with a number of habeas cases coming up, we may see a quick number of government surrenders and detainee returns… to somewhere, anyway” is an accurate forecast. It sure needs to be …

By: The Boiling Frog

The Boiling Frog — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:57:05 +0000

These cases should provide enough fodder for NBC’s “Dateline” that it may be a while before we see another report on a wife who may (or may not!) have murdered her husband (or vice-versa). Maybe they’ll even dedicate a whole week to exposing these travesties.

It should make for very compelling television…in my dreams.

(Not sure whether you will appreciate this reference or not, but your North American readers might.)

By: Will Shirley

Will Shirley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:20:45 +0000

Power seized is never voluntarily given back, with the exception of George Washington, who went back to the farm. It should have been clear to any student of history that Obama would certainly embrace absolute, unchecked power. The Republicrats obviously realized this when they selected Obama to run in the phony election.” The peasants will be so thrilled a black man got into the White House they won’t notice the Bill of Rights is still burning.” Progressives need to remember to look at his actions, not to listen to just his words. We still have a suspended Constitution and Bill of Rights, still fighting two illegal wars, still borrowing billions from our “enemies” in Communist China. So we have an articulate spokesman for the wealthy elite who run the country, but we still have no one to represent the People and we still have only those rights the government chooses to grant us at any one given time.

By: Investigative journalism on 23 June 09 « The Centre for Investigative Journalism News Blog

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:28:03 +0000

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