Allan Riise <ari06@pc.dk> wrote:
> "Per Rønne" wrote:
> > Allan Riise <ari06@pc.dk> wrote:
[Guantanamo]
> >> Nej, men af at hundredevis er blevet løsladt flere år efter de blev
> >> anholdt, uden en eneste sigtelse
> >
> > Og en god del af dem er senere faldet i kamp mod de internationale
> > styrker i Afghanistan, eller taget til fange af disse, efter at de
> > kæmpede mod vore soldater.
>
> Og det er noget du *ved* ?
Læst. Naturligvis har jeg ikke været med i kampene; jeg blev da også i
sin tid kasseret før sessionen - stærkt nærsynethed.
Og så ser jeg netop på Washington Post:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52670-2004Oct21.html>
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Released Detainees Rejoining The Fight
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 22, 2004; Page A01
At least 10 detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay prison after U.S.
officials concluded they posed little threat have been recaptured or
killed fighting U.S. or coalition forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
according to Pentagon officials.
One of the repatriated prisoners is still at large after taking
leadership of a militant faction in Pakistan and aligning himself with
al Qaeda, Pakistani officials said. In telephone calls to Pakistani
reporters, he has bragged that he tricked his U.S. interrogators into
believing he was someone else.
Abdullah Mehsud told reporters he fooled authorities at Guantanamo Bay
for two years before his release. (AP File Photo)
Another returned captive is an Afghan teenager who had spent two years
at a special compound for young detainees at the military prison in
Cuba, where he learned English, played sports and watched videos,
informed sources said. U.S. officials believed they had persuaded him to
abandon his life with the Taliban, but recently the young man, now 18,
was recaptured with other Taliban fighters near Kandahar, Afghanistan,
according to the sources, who asked for anonymity because they were
discussing sensitive military information.
The cases demonstrate the difficulty Washington faces in deciding when
alleged al Qaeda and Taliban detainees should be freed, amid pressure
from foreign governments and human rights groups that have denounced
U.S. officials for detaining the Guantanamo Bay captives for years
without due-process rights, military officials said.
"Reports that former detainees have rejoined al Qaeda and the Taliban
are evidence that these individuals are fanatical and particularly
deceptive," said a Pentagon spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico.
"From the beginning, we have recognized that there are inherent risks in
determining when an individual detainee no longer had to be held at
Guantanamo Bay."
The latest case emerged two weeks ago when two Chinese engineers working
on a dam project in Pakistan's lawless Waziristan region were kidnapped.
The commander of a tribal militant group, Abdullah Mehsud, 29, told
reporters by satellite phone that his followers were responsible for the
abductions.
Mehsud said he spent two years at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in
2002 in Afghanistan fighting alongside the Taliban. At the time he was
carrying a false Afghan identity card, and while in custody he
maintained the fiction that he was an innocent Afghan tribesman, he
said. U.S. officials never realized he was a Pakistani with deep ties to
militants in both countries, he added.
"I managed to keep my Pakistani identity hidden all these years," he
told Gulf News in a recent interview. Since his return to Pakistan in
March, Pakistani newspapers have written lengthy accounts of Mehsud's
hair and looks, and the powerful appeal to militants of his fiery
denunciations of the United States. "We would fight America and its
allies," he said in one interview, "until the very end."
Last week Pakistani commandos freed one of the abducted Chinese
engineers in a raid on a mud-walled compound in which five militants and
the other hostage were killed.
The 10 or more returning militants are but a fraction of the 202
Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been returned to their homelands. Of
that group, 146 were freed outright, and 56 were transferred to the
custody of their home governments. Many of those men have since been
freed.
Mark Jacobson, a former special assistant for detainee policy in the
Defense Department who now teaches at Ohio State University, estimated
that as many as 25 former detainees have taken up arms again. "You can't
trust them when they say they're not terrorists," he said.
A U.S. defense official who helps oversee the prisoners added: "We could
have said we'll accept no risks and refused to release anyone. But we've
regarded that option as not humane, and not practical, and one that
makes the U.S. government appear unreasonable."
Another former Guantanamo Bay prisoner was killed in southern
Afghanistan last month after a shootout with Afghan forces. Maulvi
Ghafar was a senior Taliban commander when he was captured in late 2001.
No information has emerged about what he told interrogators in
Guantanamo Bay, but in several cases U.S. officials have released
detainees they knew to have served with the Taliban if they swore off
violence in written agreements.
Returned to Afghanistan in February, Ghafar resumed his post as a top
Taliban commander, and his forces ambushed and killed a U.N. engineer
and three Afghan soldiers, Afghan officials said, according to news
accounts.
A third released Taliban commander died in an ambush this summer. Mullah
Shahzada, who apparently convinced U.S. officials that he had sworn off
violence, rejoined the Taliban as soon as he was freed in mid-2003,
sources with knowledge of his situation said.
The Afghan teenager who was recaptured recently had been kidnapped and
possibly abused by the Taliban before he was apprehended the first time
in 2001. After almost three years living with other young detainees in a
seaside house at Guantanamo Bay, he was returned in January of this year
to his country, where he was to be monitored by Afghan officials and
private contractors. But the program failed and he fell back in with the
Taliban, one source said.
"Someone dropped the ball in Afghanistan," the source said.
One former detainee who has not yet been able to take up arms is Slimane
Hadj Abderrahmane, a Dane who also signed a promise to renounce
violence. But in recent months he has told Danish media that he
considers the written oath "toilet paper," stated his plans to join the
war in Chechnya and said Denmark's prime minister is a valid target for
terrorists.
Human rights activists said the cases of unrepentant militants do not
undercut their assertions that the United States is violating the rights
of Guantanamo Bay inmates.
"This doesn't alter the injustice, or support the administration's
argument that setting aside their rights is justified," said Alistair
Hodgett, a spokesman for Amnesty International.
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Selv den nok så bekendte 'dansker' Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane nævnes her
.... men artiklen er nu også fra 22. oktonber 2004, for mere end to år
siden. Så mon ikke der er endnu flere af de frigivne, der kæmper mod den
lovligt valgte regering i Afghanistan?
> >> og var blevet torteret.
> >
> > Efter eget udsagn?
>
> Og lægetjek.
Hvilke læger? Og hvornår?
Som udgangspunkt kan man ikke bare stole på salafister.
--
Per Erik Rønne
http://www.RQNNE.dk