http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060305/ap_on_...o_the_long_wait

 

490 held. 10 charged with anything.

 

Boudella al Hajj, an Algerian cleric who said he worked with orphans in Bosnia for a humanitarian group and the Bosnian army, was accused of being in contact with al-Qaida member Abu Zubaydah and belonging to an Algerian militant organization, among other things.

 

In the transcripts, he denied the allegations and asked why he had never heard them before.

 

"I've been here for three years, been through many interrogations and no interrogator ever mentioned any of these accusations, so how did they just come now?" he said. "It's weird how this just came up now."

 

One tribunal member, who was not identified, later said: "We didn't realize you had never been confronted with these allegations."

What's happening in Gitmo is simply outrageous. It has been abhorrent on every level. When you take an interrogation situation, understaff it in the extreme, have untrained MPs conducting the majority of interrogation and interrogation procedures instead of trained CIA officials and the like, and have the lower-level grunts--for all intents and purposes--making moral and SOP decisions, what do you think is going to happen?

 

Sorry. It's not just naughty, it's a felony.

I think if they're worth holding in a pen for three years, they're worth at least being told why they're being held for so long - and given some degree of legal access.

I think if they're worth holding in a pen for three years, they're worth at least being told why they're being held for so long - and given some degree of legal access.

 

This is America, damnit. That stuff doesn't happen. You left-wing nut-job.

 

/green

 

This is just one of those situations where I can't help but disagree with what my president--who, by the way, is from my own party--and his staff is trying to force-feed me with. How is this scenario even possible?