U.S. court orders ex-Russian dancer freed from Guantánamo

[sabra]

Source: miami herald

A federal court on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to set free from Guantánamo a former Russian Army ballet dancer turned devout Muslim whose plight captured the imagination of a Massachusetts college town.

Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. ordered the Obama administration to take "all necessary and appropriate diplomatic steps ... forthwith'' to release Ravil Mingazov, 42, an ethnic Tartar who was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and turned over to U.S. forces.

Thursday's midday ruling raised to 35 the number of Guantánamo detention cases the U.S. government has lost since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that the war-on-terror captives can sue for their freedom in federal courts.

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The Pentagon claimed that Mingazov was captured in a March 2002 security forces raid on a suspected terrorist safehouse belonging to an al Qaeda rival named Zayn Abdeen al Hussein, known as Abu Zubaydah. It also said he had earlier undergone training at a terror training camp, which he had denied.

For his part, the Russian told a U.S. military panel in 2006 that he was captured in a guest house for refugees, not Abu Zubaydah's, who he subsequently learned that security forces captured him elsewhere. He added that he didn't know Abu Zubaydah and nor had he seen Osama bin Laden.




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[Warren Stupidity]

1. 2002 - eight years for nothing.

No restitution. No apology. Nothing.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. I'm guessing the Obama admin will just ignore this order

once you start admitting that people are their illegally, the house of cards tumbles, and Obama has made clear that he will not do this.

[DeSwiss]

5. +1

[crikkett]

9. How do you know?

How do you know that "Obama has made clear that he will not do this"?

[mikita]

3. so far every thread in LBN has made me want to vomit

and this one too.

And you know there are SO many more like this......

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. There is a problem in releasing an innocent from Gitmo

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because, ESPECIALLY after being a "guest" of the USA's illegal jail for 8 years

The "innocent" now WANTS to be guilty.

USA has fostered GENERATIONS of hatred from it's illegal detentions of people that had previously no real ill-will against the USA.

USA's concern about releasing people from Gitmo and any other of its illegal jails around the globe are genuine.

They KNOW they have created more enemies than they had before - and if they thought they could get away with it,

I suspect they would execute them all.

BAD TIME to let GeeDub make his Crusade in the Middle East.

"Shock and Awe" disgusted much of the World, and the following slaughter even more.

This is the "Information Age"

get it?

You too, President Obama

USA can't do squat now without the whole World knowing

Instantly . . .

Ponder that.

[crikkett]

10. poetic response.

Hyperbolic, melodramatic, but poetic.

[struggle4progress]

6. GITMO was always about terrifying the public with scapegoats, for political gains

We may never know how most of those people got there: the records will be incomplete and secret, and they'll largely disappear as innocents are released

When we wonder how Nazi Germany got away with scapegoating the Jews and sending them to extermination camps, we should take a good look at ourselves and our neighbors -- and think long and hard about GITMO: stir up some fear, make some ugly wild accusations, lock up some folk in the land of Night and Fog, claim that anyone who has doubts is unpatriotic and wants enemies to conquer the country ... the mechanisms are all too familiar. Yeah, GITMO isn't Auschwitz or Dachau ... but the mechanisms are all too familiar

[gratuitous]

7. Isn't he ipso facto one of the worst of the worst?

That's what the Bush administration assured us was all that were left in the American gulag. Surely we didn't just pick people up willy-nilly! Land of the free, home of the brave, and all that jazz. Clearly Judge Kennedy hates America.

Dear Republican and Tea Bagging Lurkers: This is part of what we mean when we say that we aren't proud of America. America used to be the country that fought against indefinite imprisonment of persons without charge, access to courts, or recourse of any kind.

[Jefferson23]

8. Are we going to compensate the man for anything at all?

[crikkett]

11. That's probably a different lawsuit.

I'm happy he's to be set free. I hope he gets more.

[Jefferson23]

12. Perhaps, but he shouldn't need to file a lawsuit, they should

offer him money now...and a lot of it.

[crikkett]

13. In a just world

they would.