From Kurpalo
Five prisoners have been released from the Guantanamo Bay on Thursday. These innocent Algerian men were kept there for over seven years unlawfully. This was an important mark in history and a point proven to the Bush Administration which showed that indeed there were innocent detainees held in Guantanamo Bay and also that they have a right to habeas corpus. It is true that Barack Obama has decided to go ahead and close this prison. The six men kept in Guantanamo Bay had been living in Bosnia in 2001, right before being arrested. Only one of the men was connected to the Al Qaeda and therefore he is still imprisoned currently in Cuba. The other five men were planning to go to Afghanistan to fight the United States. Bush accused them of planning on bombing the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Last month seventeen inmates were ordered release by a district judge in Washington D.C.
Reading this article was definitely eye-opening. I understood that this was going on but the idea that there are people held in this prison for years and years for no wrong doing is hard to imagine. However, when I stumbled across the information that they were possibly planning to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo... I became less sympathetic :D
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