Have you read that article, Beagle, because it’s a complete condemnation of what the US did to those kids and their families ?
"They were also unaware that the American defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, had described Guantanamo’s inmates as “hard-core, well-trained terrorists” and “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth.”
Naqibullah and Asadullah were arrested one night in November 2002, in Musawal village, Paktia province, by around 30 American special forces soldiers. More than 30 local men were also arrested, and remain in Guantanamo.
Naqibullah, the local imam’s son, said he stumbled into the raid while cycling from a friend’s house. Asadullah is from a village three days’ walk away, in neighbouring Logar province, but was working for a local farmer along with several men who were also arrested.
It seems likely the Americans were looking for a local commander, Mansoor Rah man Saiful, who had fought against the Taliban for years, but joined the radical Islamists when America attacked Afghanistan. If so, they were unsuccessful: Mr Saiful is still at large. "
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"Despite their gentle treatment, the boys were homesick. “I was very sad because I missed my family so much,” said Asadullah. “I was always asking, ‘When can I go home? What day? What month?’ They said, ‘You’ll go home soon’, but they never said when.”
Meanwhile, the boys’ parents were suffering agonies. In Khoja Angur, Asadullah’s village, the boy’s mother describes how she cried “every night thinking about my son.”
Covered entirely by a sheet of turquoise silk, she speaks through a male relative while the Guardian’s translator stares respectfully at his feet. So conservative is Asadullah’s society that his mother’s name is a family secret. “I prayed to God, I asked, ‘Where is my son?’,” she continued. “He was just a boy, much too young to disappear on his own.”
Asadullah was gone for seven months before his parents discovered his whereabouts. For the first two months, his uncles and cousins were afraid to tell his elderly father, Abdul Rahman, that he was missing, believing the shock might kill him. Almost the entire male population of Khoja Angur, a fortified mud-village, snowbound and ringed by icy peaks, downed tools and went searching for the boy. “They went to Bagram, but the Americans said they didn’t know anything about him,” said Abdul Rahman, white-bearded and heavy-breathing. "They went to Logar and Gardez, even to Kandahar, but no one knew about him."
Taking 12-year old kids right across the world without their parents permission – or even knowledge - on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and detaining them for nearly two years without any rights at all; this is good for the US ?
Jesus, the kid was cycling to his friends house, for crissakes - you got kids, Beagle, do you haven’t, that’s for sure.