8 Pakistanis Freed From U.S. Detention

[Rose Siding]

Eight Pakistanis released from U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returned home Monday, a Cabinet minister said.

Two of the men had been held in Guantanamo Bay and the six others were at Bagram, the main U.S. military base north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, said Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao....

The eight were taken to a jail in Rawalpindi, the garrison city near the capital, Islamabad, where authorities were to debrief them before allowing them to return to their homes, Sherpao said.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler confirmed that two Pakistani detainees were sent home from Guantanamo Bay over the weekend. A detainee from Bahrain and another from Iran also were transferred to their home countries, he said.
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Previously, another 68 Pakistanis had been freed from Guantanamo Bay after spending years in custody and later being cleared without formally being charged.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-detainees,0,874351.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[annabanana]

1. What?. . We just send them on their way with an

Emily Latella "Nevermind"?

Incidently, how can they "later be cleared without formally being charged"? Just how does that work, actually?

[ninkasi]

2. Check prior news articles

Every time people speak out against the torture suffered by the prisoners at Gitmo, the Bush administration has assured us that these people are the most dangerous men on earth. Obviously, if some are then released without having charges filed against them, they were then innocent while they were being tortured. This is one of the many, many reasons that torture is immoral.

We are now a nation which has lost the right to point fingers at any other dictatorship, or brutal regime. At one time, America stood for freedom, and equality. No more.