A Fate Worse Than Guantanamo?
By Eric Umansky. He writes the Today's Papers column for Slate (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/03/06):
Walid al-Qadasi should have been thrilled he was finally leaving Guantanamo Bay. Al-Qadasi, a Yemeni man in his mid-twenties, had been held at the prison about two years. He was first arrested in late 2001 by Iranian authorities who, al-Qadasi later recalled, "sold" him to U.S.-allied Afghan forces for a bounty. With little evidence against him -- and no tribunal having established his guilt or innocence -- al-Qadasi was sent home from Guantanamo in April 2004.
In an affidavit taken by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit organization that leads a team of 450 pro-bono attorneys representing Guantanamo detainees, al-Qadasi says that he remembers almost nothing of the unexpected move.… Seguir leyendo »