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...Life Inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next--hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists...
...adviser on interrogations at Abu Ghraib-- do wrong? No, says a new report by Lieut. General Stanley Green, the Army Inspector General (IG), that TIME obtained last week. An investigation recommended last summer that Miller be reprimanded for poor oversight of a high-value prisoner at Gitmo. But Green told TIME that the evidence is not there to back charges against Miller of dereliction and lying to Congress about his role in the scandal. The report concludes that at Gitmo Miller was unaware a canine had been used to intimidate alleged "20th hijacker" Mohammed al-Qahtani, or that al-Qahtani...
...President Bush normally takes the absolutist position in the war on terror - on Gitmo, on wiretaps, on enemy combatants - and lets everyone else complain that he is too hard over, too much at war. But here the roles are reversed: the president is dug in on the deal and the public, at least as represented by the Congress, is taking the absolutist, no surrender, position...
...Last March, a federal judge barred the government from transferring 13 Yemenis at Gitmo to other countries without giving the captives a chance to weigh in, on the grounds that they might be sent to nations where they could be tortured. Indefinite detention without charges at Guantanamo could translate into the same in another country, plus more aggressive physical harm. And there are several other legal battles pending, including one that revolves around whether the detainees can go to federal court to challenge their confinement...
Inside the Wire at Gitmo "Inside The Interrogation of Detainee 063" [June 20] showed the prison camp at the U.S. naval station at Guantá namo Bay to be a prime example of the hypocrisy that shrouds the U.S. By indefinitely detaining "enemy combatants" without availing them of legal defense, we show the world that the lives of non-Americans are unimportant to us. That is not a great way to spread democracy. If there is indisputable evidence that prisoners were involved in 9/11, then by all means they should be prosecuted. But if there is no evidence...