Lawyers: Many (more than half) Gitmo Detainees Not Accused

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - More than half of the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay have not been accused of committing hostile acts against the United States or its allies, two of the detainees' lawyers said in a report released Tuesday.

Compiled from declassified Defense Department evaluations of the more than 500 detainees at the Cuba facility, the report says just 8 percent are listed as fighters for a terrorist group, while 30 percent are considered members of a terrorist group and the remaining 60 percent were just "associated with" terrorists.

The evaluations were completed as part of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted during 2004 to determine if the prisoners were being correctly held as enemy combatants. So far just 10 of the detainees have been formally charged with crimes and are headed for military tribunals.

According to the report, 55 percent of the detainees are informally accused of committing a hostile act. But the descriptions of their actions ranged from a high-ranking Taliban member who tortured and killed Afghan natives to people who possessed rifles, used a guest house or wore olive drab clothing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_on_go_ot/guantanamo_detainees

[HuffleClaw]

1. they've really wasted so much resources on this crap and

enflamed entire nations against this criminality. and the truly sad thing is gitmo is the one we KNOW about. there are a whole bunch of OTHER us-run concentration camps they've managed to keep mostly hidden from view.

[reprobate]

2. True to form. What Bush touches, Bush screw up!

[leesa]

3. America's shame.

[madeline_con]

4. "... or wore olive drab clothing ..."

Understandable; neon green was likely frowned upon by the Taliban...