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It gets worse.
The BBC have just announced that one of the men was going to be released, as they had decided that he was no risk to the US.
Sadly they have a policy on not informing the men in these circumstances.
That makes this the second time (at least) that a G'tmo prisoner has committed suicide after the authorities had decided that they were safe to release, but before the prisoner had been told.
This begs the question, why would a man that has been declared innocent and no risk commit an act of war?
Either ( a ) the man was really a risk - therefore declaring him safe shows that the American system has failings, or
( b ) the man was no risk - therefore he probably wasn't committing an act of war, but rather an act of desperation - so the American system has failings.
Someone is bound to point out that my silly liberal British views are in some way giving in to terror, but I honestly cannot see things from the US point of view right now.
It's getting pretty bad when the only way out of jail for an innocent man is in a coffin.
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