IDs from Guantanamo raise nations' outcry

[leftchick]

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/14391821.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_nation

KABUL, Afghanistan - A chorus of complaints against the United States erupted yesterday after the Pentagon released a previously secret list of the names and citizenship of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation commission vowed to send a delegation to the prison to make sure Afghans were not being mistreated. China demanded custody of a group of Uighur separatists, to be prosecuted on terrorism charges.

The list, released Wednesday under orders of a federal judge in a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Associated Press, may provide the first proof of life to families whose relatives have disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday. There are now about 490 detainees from about 40 countries at the base.

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The information stirred anger in many countries. In Pakistan, a senior official said it showed Washington concealed information about its citizens. Egyptian and Jordanian security officials said none of their citizen detainees had criminal records or known terrorist connections. And activists in Mauritania and Bahrain demanded freedom for their citizens, who are approaching their fifth year of detention without trial.

[peacebird]

1. and we hold 30% even after deciding they are innocent because we refuse

to let them live in America and can't find other countries that will take them....

yeah - we're truly a "beacon of democracy"... NOT.

[MGKrebs]

4. It makes one think that when they say crap like "9/11 changed everything"

they mean that the post 9/11 world has no room for democracy, or freedom, or inalienable human rights. They seem to believe that the experiment defined by the Declaration of Independance and the US Constitution/Bill of Rights has failed.

I beg to differ.

[libodem]

2. apparently some are afraid to be returned to their countries

because they will be persecuted at home. Is that because they might be considered double agents or what? Why would their countries further punish them? Please help enlighten me. Thanx :)

[pocket]

3. those Uighurs will be missing gitmo when China gets ahold of them

basically going from the 5th to the 6th level of hell

[Terran1212]

6. Basically : (

[baby_mouse]

5. No wonder they didn't release the names earlier. NT