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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:55 PM
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" he took a suitcase of $3 million in cash into Afghanistan"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050531/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_prisoners_for_sale_1


Gitmo Detainees Say They Were Sold

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Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit.

A former
CIA intelligence officer who helped lead the search for
Osama bin Laden told AP the accounts sounded legitimate because U.S. allies regularly got money to help catch Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. Gary Schroen said he took a suitcase of $3 million in cash into
Afghanistan himself to help supply and win over warlords to fight for U.S. Special Forces.

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But a wide variety of detainees at the U.S. lockup at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleged they were sold into capture. Their names and other identifying information were blacked out in the transcripts from the tribunals, which were held to determine whether prisoners were correctly classified as enemy combatants.
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the bushgang is sure cavalier with our money and men's lives

and what is the story on Gary Schroen? any of that money stick to him?
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 01:02 PM
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1. Oh don't you know
it's all Newsweek's fault.

sarcasm/off

How these idiots think that these crimes against innocents (aka humanity) could ever win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world truly escapes me. Oh I forgot, that's not their intention at all.

If only the members of the ICC were not bribed into never charging the US with war crimes. . .if only. . .
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