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It mentions that 86% of prisoners there were handed over by locals as being “suspicious” when offered very large bounties by the US Government (apparently up to
by stephen_g 5y ago
It mentions that 86% of prisoners there were handed over by locals as being “suspicious” when offered very large bounties by the US Government (apparently up to millions of dollars).
The article also links to this report of an ex-Bush era official saying most detainees were innocent [1] and the ALCU has some more info and numbers [2].
1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/most-guantanamo-detainees-are-innocent-ex-bush-official-1.804550 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/most-guantanamo-detainees-are-...
2. https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/guantanamo-numbers https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/guan...
- platz 5y agoWhat I'm critiquing is the article itself, which rather conspicuously leaves out key details, independent of his actual guilt or innocence.
- boudin 5y agoMaybe because that's all there is to it. He happened to there at the wrong time. It's really similar to what happened to Mohammed al Gharani https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_el_Gharani https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_el_Gharani