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Death
His supposed reason for being in Pakistan, if an editorial on Al Jazeera can be believed:
His attempt to gain freedom and its prevention by the Obama administration:
Some will say this is a travesty of American "justice."
I say, American justice only applies to what the American people want to be just, and this case certainly does not fit that bill. Solid majorities of Americans prefer to turn a blind eye to this type of case because:
- The story is from the anti-American, anti-Israel Al Jazeera news source
- This terrorist suspect was an enemy combatant detained on the field of battle. No US laws or international warfare conventions apply to him, and indefinite detainment is OK
- Collateral damage such as individual injustices are acceptable in the Global War of Terror
- Muslims are savages undeserving of human rights
With Obama's signature of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 last December, indefinite detention of American citizen terrorism suspects on US territory is legal. And as bolded above, legal precedent has established that allegations by the US government may be taken as accurate in the absence of corroborating evidence, based on the assumption that the government does not lie.
Death
Two weeks ago, the Pentagon quietly released a statement that another Guantanamo detainee had died in custody, the ninth since the prison was opened in 2001. Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a 32-year-old man from Yemen who had spent eleven years incarcerated, was found dead in his cell on September 8.
His supposed reason for being in Pakistan, if an editorial on Al Jazeera can be believed:
He had been receiving medical care in Amman, Jordan for chronic injuries he had received from a car crash in Yemen that had fractured his skull and caused permanent damage to his hearing. Lured to Pakistan by the promise of cheap healthcare....
His attempt to gain freedom and its prevention by the Obama administration:
Despite this, Latif fought his own long legal battle through the civilian court system, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to prove his innocence and win his release.... an order for Latif's immediate release was given by US District Judge Henry Kennedy, who called the allegations against him "unconvincing" and in a 32-page order ruled that the government had failed to provide evidence that Latif had been part of al-Qaeda or any other militant group and ordering it to "take all necessary and appropriate diplomatic steps to facilitate Latif's release forthwith".
Despite this, the Department of Justice successfully appealed the judges' decision, and in a 2-1 ruling that Latif's release order was rescinded; effectively on the grounds that the allegations against him must be taken as accurate if they are claimed to be so by the government..... The dissenting opinion lambasted the ruling as rigging "the game in the governments favour"
Some will say this is a travesty of American "justice."
I say, American justice only applies to what the American people want to be just, and this case certainly does not fit that bill. Solid majorities of Americans prefer to turn a blind eye to this type of case because:
- The story is from the anti-American, anti-Israel Al Jazeera news source
- This terrorist suspect was an enemy combatant detained on the field of battle. No US laws or international warfare conventions apply to him, and indefinite detainment is OK
- Collateral damage such as individual injustices are acceptable in the Global War of Terror
- Muslims are savages undeserving of human rights
With Obama's signature of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 last December, indefinite detention of American citizen terrorism suspects on US territory is legal. And as bolded above, legal precedent has established that allegations by the US government may be taken as accurate in the absence of corroborating evidence, based on the assumption that the government does not lie.
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