Friday, April 15, 2005

I noticed this little item: "Idr was accused of plotting with five others to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo in November 2001. All were acquitted by a Bosnian court in January 2002, but U.S. agents arrested them as they left the courthouse and eventually took them to Guantanamo Bay."

Why is Mustafa Ait Idr not labeled a prisoner? Arrest and subsequent incarceration at the infamous Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba shows that this government was intent on not providing Mr. Idr any legal recourse to prove his innocence. Rather it is the intent of this government to simply "disappear" another person.

"The detainee, Mustafa Ait Idr, 34, an Algerian citizen living in Bosnia, has been held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for three years on suspicion that he plotted to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia. The lawsuit, filed by his attorneys in federal court in Boston, alleges that the government has probably videotaped Idr's beatings and demands that it produce any such tapes and all records of alleged torture and interrogation tactics at the detention facility."

There are many questions raised by this newspaper report by Carol Leonnig, Washington Post Staff Writer.
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