Thursday, March 31, 2005

Those who are nameless and faceless of the "worst of the worst" being held at the Guantanamo gulag are slowly being revealed by the U.S. justice system and not by the Tyrant's justice of the star chamber .

Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg writes:

"Far from the razor wire, inside the court that ordered Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, the stories of the once nameless, faceless men kept captive at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba come alive in page after page of habeas corpus petitions for 140 Guantánamo captives from 23 countries from China to Saudi Arabia.

They include assertions of being kidnapped to Afghanistan so the United States could cast them as captured on the battlefield. They write of wives and children awaiting their return and complain about their conditions, medical care and isolation.

Some allege American interrogations turned to torture. Others says they are innocent, devout Muslims mistaken for Islamic militants."

The justice that these people seek is that all Americans have- to have their day in court. As has been seen since the Abu Ghraib torture scandal the percentage of people who are Islamic militants, hardcore jihadists or collaborators are very small but it is the innocent people who suffer the most at the hands of their jailers and those who have promulgated a world girding gulag archipelago.

Who would want to be held in captivity forever? Subject to the systematic torture of their jailers.
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