“The crowning irony is that he is an enemy of bin Laden, who was charged with conspiring to kill him, and we hold him prisoner today,” said Sabin Willett, a lawyer who has filed a petition with the U.S. District Court in Washington on Turkistani’s behalf. “It’s heartbreaking that we throw people into jail to rot.”
This guy (apparently) tried to fill a contract on Osama in 1998;his famous need for dialysis was the result.
Rewarded with 4 years in the Taliban joint, he shows up in 2001, and we hold him to this very moment.
Because purportedly, there’s no where for him to go.
How about New York City. Or D.C. Or anythefuckwhereever the poor motherfucker wants to go in this country???
For debate:How can you defend a system of arbitrary detention that produces these insane results? Even if you do defend it, don’t you think this guy has at least enough of a beef that he deserves asylum here?
(Personally, I learned it to be two spaces after periods and colons, but the world appears to have since discarded the double-space for both of these.)
You’re a soldier, you find some random dude tied up amongst the camp of an enemy camp. You forward him to someone to deal with since all you know how to do is kill people. The person you forward him to puts him in a big room with a few other 1000 guys for sorting as soon as possible. By the time “as soon as possible” happens, there is no country for the guy to return to.
The article doesn’t seem to say why they don’t release him into the US. Probably, they don’t want him available here for press conferences.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were afraid that they’d turned him against us by their own actions, and were thus unwilling to have him running loose on U.S. soil. After all, he has proven that he is willing to assassinate.
Another classic screw up by the good ol’ U.S. of A…
I can’t figure out why any of these guys isn’t at least released to a Holiday Inn…
We admit to 15,000 prisoners in and around Iraq who are being sorted as soon as possivble.
That’s the great horror of this system. Once they make a mistake and SUSPECT that you may be THE ENEMY there is virtually no incentive ever to let you go, let alone spend the time thinking about whether or not to let you go.
You’re a soldier, you find some random dude tied up amongst the camp of an enemy camp. You forward him to someone to deal with since all you know how to do is kill people. The person you forward him to puts him in a big room with a few other 1000 guys for sorting as soon as possible. By the time “as soon as possible” happens, there is no country for the guy to return to.
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This raises another question for me: What happened to technology? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to ship 10,000 polygraph machines to iraq, hook them up via internet to langley and do a rough sort that would reliably identify 98 out of 100 friendlies?
The two percent who can produce a deceptive negative (ie, the test says they are truthful when they are not) are a small price to pay for the avoided universal hatred you inspire by holding people FORFUCKINGEVER without charge.
To what do you attribute this too Evil? The brilliantly written OP which cuts all arguement to the quick, destroying Bush defenders before they can even get a word in edge wise…or the fact that its yet another mostly incomprehensible screed by near legendary alaricthegoth?
Fair enough. I believe I myself have argued the other side of the dialysis story.
That said, it remains famous. By which I mean that it probably still enjoys enough credence (as is in some ways evidenced by its inclusion in the story itself) that Turkestani should get some credibility boost.
At least he was found in a Taliban jail, not a taliban army unit like Lindh.
