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Guantanamo Detainee Speaks
Brennan Linsley/AP
Sad coda for the Bush administration: Muhammad Saad Iqbal was never charged with a crime, but the six years he spent in U.S. custody were a nightmare. Iqbal was arrested in Indonesia in 2002 and judged by American officials not to be a threat. (He had bragged about building a shoe bomb.) But he was taken to Egypt anyway, where he says he was given electric shocks and beaten and made to stand for days. At Guantanamo, he repeatedly tried to commit suicide. Iqbal is now planning to sue the United States. “Who is responsible for the seven years of my life?” he said.
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Would you, perhaps, require that they actually BE terrorists before you consigned them to life in hell?
Pangloss seems to imagine that Bushies got it right when they imprisoned people. In baseball parlance they had a batting average of less than 100.
I was always taught that someone had to have been convicted of a crime before being called a criminal. Terrorism is a crime, but is thinking about it, or even bragging about it, as this person apparently did, a crime? I hardly think so. To have kept him imprisoned for 7 years, tortured, his life destroyed, you tell me, who committed this crime? Organs of our very own US government did. The responsibility for these crimes leads to the very top of our present administration and people who worked for them to provide some sort of pseudo-legal justification for this. We must stop this. Now. We have a problem in determining what to do regarding the people still imprisoned but not proven or even known to be guilty of anything criminal. What might they do, after they're released? Perhaps we should help rehabilitate them, right here in the United States, if they don't want to go back to their home countries, or cannot for some reason. I think we must do this in order to even begin to redeem ourselves.
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