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But I think people still don't know the truth about rendition - which is that Afghanis and Iraqis were picked up off the streets more or less at random, flown to Gitmo, and tortured for no reason at all.

What do you mean? We've known pretty much immediately after it happened that Afghans around Mazar-i-Sharif were sold to US troops during Operation Enduring Freedom.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 04:32:53 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Not just Afghans. One prominent detainee was a London chef who was allegedly somewhere in Afghanistan cooking up bomb plots, but who has a cast-iron London alibi which proves that all he was cooking were chips and burgers.

Gitmo is beyond grand guignol - ethically and legally it's a complete farce.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 07:25:47 PM EST
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