http://foia.fbi.gov/guantanamo/detainees.pdf

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> no he is not, that's the thing.
>
> And I reject the idea that torture is ok if it is only one guy.
> Torture is torture. What about the people they waterboared? Is that ok
> because they only admit to doing it to three people? Note, we only
> know about Kahtani because someone leaked the logs. We only know about
> Khadr because he is a child and a  Canadian citizen. What about Maher
> Arar? Again, we only know about him because he is a citizen of Canada
> and his wife was smart enough and determined enough to shame the
> Canadian governement into acting. Had he been a poor Afghani or Yemeni
> he could easily have died or still be molding to death in prison.
>
> Again those are only the cases I know about. According to this article
> there are many more. No, it is not just one guy.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Dana  wrote:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_al-Kahtani
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/opinion/21lewis.html
>>
>> Khadr is a weird case. Why doesn't Canada want him back?
>>
>> Kahtani was one of the hijackers, but couldn't get into the US. Then
>> he got caught retreating during the Tora Bora offensive and he ended
>> up in Guantanamo. I don't feel sorry for the guy, he deserves
>> execution, but the abuse they subjected him to was abuse for the sake
>> of revenge, for the sake of brutality. But he's one guy, and his case,
>> without context, has become the story of what Guantanamo is, and that
>> just isn't true.
>>
>> 

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