Gitmo detainee deemed not a combatant - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Journeyman · 09-08-2004, 03:19 PM

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WASHINGTON - The Defense Department has determined for the first time that one of the nearly 600 prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was improperly held by the United States as an “enemy combatant” and will be released to his home country, the Navy secretary said Wednesday.

The secretary, Gordon England, refused to identify the prisoner or his nationality, but he said a military panel at Guantanamo Bay had determined that the man was not an enemy combatant, the status under which the Defense Department has held foreign terrorism suspects at the remote base.

So we know absolutely nothing about this person except that A) He was detained at Gitmo and B) He should not have been detained at Gitmo.

What were the circumstances of his capture? How long has he been behind bars? Has he endured torture, hunger, extreme weather conditions?

Why, oh why, is an innocent man's release, of who the administration wanted to be held indefinitely, being executed in such a secretive fashion?

You can assume the best, I'm gonna assume the worst.