Why was Bush sending Iraqis to Guantanamo?

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http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSRAS749801

Iraqis await Guantanamo son, whereabouts unknown

Sun Feb 8, 2009 6:10am EST

BASRA, Iraq, Feb 8 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp, one poor Iraqi family thought it would soon get back its son.

But even after it found out that U.S. officials sent Hassan Abdul Hadi back to Iraq weeks ago, the whereabouts of the Shi'ite Muslim from Iraq's south, who somehow ended up being suspected by the Americans of terrorism, remains unknown. snip

After Saddam Hussein was toppled in the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, Hadi's parents anxiously waited for news, hoping he had been held by autonomous Kurds and would be released.

No news emerged until April 2004, when a message arrived from Red Cross officials in Basra: Hadi was in Guantanamo Bay, established by the Bush administration to hold Taliban and al Qaeda suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I couldn't believe them. What the hell was he doing there?" Hadi's father asked himself.

[ThomWV]

1. That is one mighty good question. Why indeed?

We had prisons, we had interrogators, we had it all in country (Iraq), so why ship the guy a third of the way around the world?

I am trying to grasp the implications from any answer to this question.

[IsItJustMe]

2. Military intelligence is a oxymoron.