The US released the most detailed list of all prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
“Only 10 of the detainees have been charged with a crime, and not one of the trials has been completed. The United States classifies Guantanamo detainees as “enemy combatants” and not prisoners of war, thus denying them rights afforded POWs under the Geneva Conventions. The British government’s top legal adviser, Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, last week called for the closure of the Guantanamo jail, which he said had become a symbol of injustice.”
Here’s the list; http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detaineesFOIArelease15May2006.pdf
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“Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said that 29 Pakistani prisoners were still in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay of which eight would be handed over to Pakistan soon. He did not specify exact date of their return.
The new list shows only 13 Pakistani prisoners. The interior minister said US authorities had notified 16 other prisoners as Pakistani nationals and had informed the government of Pakistan. “The Interior Ministry wants the remaining Pakistani prisoners released and has already asked the Foreign Office to arrange counsellor’s access for them,” he said.”* http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\05\17\story_17-5-2006_pg7_6
The diff numbers being quoted raise huge concerns.
Pakistan is an ‘ally’ and even Pakistan seems to have little clue exactly how many pakistani nationals are at Guantanamo. We can only imagine how many souls have been totally untraceable and may never return to their homes from Guantanamo. Particularly those coming from countries Bush openly hates.
^^ Pakistan should make it's own prison on some island off of Makran coast. Any Pakistanis released from GITMO should be sent to that island prison. Anyone infected with Arabic rabies is no good for Pak society anymore.
We can not expect any thing towards Pakistan's development of industry and commerce from these terrorists.
I believe in mercy hence the suggestion of keeping them in an island prison. Otherwise, rabies infected animals usually need to be euthanized.
what terrorists? they are innocent human beings trapped in this farce for four years.. wonder how many have died from all the experiments performed on them, testing new drugs etc..
A distant uncle of mine who has since retired was part of the Pakistani military delegation that went to Gitmo a couple of years ago to interrogate the Pakistani prisoners there.
He came back disgusted and said that they were all just run-of-the mill Taliban militants at worst rather than actual terrorists. He saw no reason to hold them at Gitmo.
Pakistani army's easy going attitude was OK until Neiku the bud-nake snake from Wazirastan ended up running the uprising. FYI Bud-Nake Mohammad brought terror to Miran Shah after he was released from GITMO.
I say ship these terrorists to an island off the coast of Makran. They are no good, trouble maker beardos.