Our Silence on Gitmo
Why don’t DP bloggers care? After 5 Gitmo years , Mubarak is in a new hell in Dhaka jail (30 days so far)! Are we silent because he is religious, trained at a madrassa, therefore falls outside our human rights box? Is it because we are afraid to take on cases that confront US foreign policy?
NEW AGE has a SPECIAL REPORT Return From Guantanamo
Mobarak’s father Abul Hashem reiterated his claim that his son is innocent. “If they [US authorities] had found the slightest clue about his militancy link, they would not have released him,” he told The Daily Star.
Bangladesh: Man returns from Guantánamo to police interrogation
Miami Herald staff and wire reports
…”We are interrogating him,” Tahera Banu, an official of the airport police station in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, told The Associated Press by telephone.
The announcement in Dhaka comes amid a series of larger U.S. transfers from the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba — seven to Afghanistan yesterday and 16 to Saudi Arabia on Thursday. Pentagon officials appear to be thinning the captive population as the clock ticks toward the fifth anniversary of the first arrivals of detainees brought to Cuba from Bagram, Afghanistan on Jan. 11, 2002.