The Afghan Review Board backed off for a few days on releasing the 88 detainees from Bagram that the US insisted were particularly dangerous, but now say that they still don’t have any evidence warranting keeping them, and that they must be let go.
The Pentagon has angrily been pushing against their release, saying the review board was never meant to have the power to let anyone go, and was supposed to choose between sending detainees for prosecution or ordering further investigations to look for evidence against them.
Since the handover of Bagram, the Afghan government has been reviewing the evidence against detainees, and has released some 85% of those reviewed so far, 650 people, saying none of them had any real evidence against them.
The 88 detainees were said to be “particularly dangerous” by the US, but the Review Board appears to have only the military’s word for it, since neither the US nor the Karzai government has produced anything amounting to evidence against any of them.
I wonder how many of these released prisoners will end up getting "droned" or connected with a false-flag event in the future?
The US says that the review board was never meant to provide justice to the prisoners. Is that what we´ve become as a nation?
You mean 'justis"? Prisoners get 'justis' up the wazoo, and undeservedly so.
Justice, however, is an entirely different concept, long lost on, but restricted to, 'patriotic' Americans.
As a 12th generation American, I find it beyond shameful that my US Government is attacking the government of Afghanistan for insisting upon releasing prisoners who have been imprisoned for years without charges or evidence of criminal conduct — and for insisting that under Afghan law such indefinite imprisonment without trial cannot be defended. And of course my Government has no explanation whatsoever for its own conduct at Guantanamo Bay — where several hundred "worst of the worst terrorists" (Secretary Rumsfeld's words) were in fact released by the Bush Administration after many years of similarly unjustified imprisonment for being "too dangerous" to release even if there were no evidence against them. Worse yet, it is now the Obama Administration that carries on the blatantly unconstitutional crusade for indefinite detention of prisoners "too dangerous" to release even though there is no evidence upon which to hold them. And so it goes in our Land of the Presumed Guilty and Home of the Cowardly.
"…investigations to look for evidence against them."
I thought the "rule of law" dictated that you had to have evidence before you threw someone into a cage. Obviously the GITMO Syndrome has gone to the heads of the USG and especially the Military Command. They're finding out that their word is insufficient anymore. Can't imagine why….
These are the baddest of the bad, (as opposed to the worst of the worst (who are in Guantanamo)). Letting them go is as dumb as putting them on trial. For although we 'know' how bad they are, strangely enough we can't prove it to anybody who scores more than 24 on a Stanford Binet. They're 'EEEvul', pure' EEEvvul' – the kind of guys you wouldn't want hiding under your bed, or in your daughter's closet.
Sawing off heads, for them, is akin to harvesting poppies. Molesting the little school girls is something they do for fun. And if they get let go they'll be launching the invasion rowboats to come over here to destroy our freedumb like we've destoyed theirs, but with even less good reason.