Adel Hamad (Guantanamo inmate #940) released
Ben Parzybok says,
Image: takomabibelot.Guantanamo prisoner Adel Hamad -- we've been working to have him released -- is home in Sudan with his family. This is great news. His case was covered previously on Boing Boing here: Guantanamo detainee's lawyers post video to YouTube, and Campaign to save man imprisoned at Gitmo.
Here's our post at Project Hamad regarding his release and that of a fellow Sudanese.
USA Today says that Adel Hamad spoke up for Sudanese Al-Jazeera cameraman (who has been on hunger strike) when he returned home, saying that his health was worsening.
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Yay! Good news!
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So, what kind of compensation is this man getting for being kidnapped stormtrooper style and held in conditions worse than federal supermax prisons for a HALF DECADE. The mind boggles. If he commits terroristic acts against the US, near as I can see, he's on the moral high ground now.
Remember, if you're American you're partly responsible for this crap that is taking place at Guantanamo.
This reminds me of Mitt Romney's promise to "double Guantanamo." Just one more reason to avoid him like the plague.
One down, how many hundreds to go?
Guantanamo makes me want to fly a flag around upside down for a while, then burn it. It's fucking shameful and embarassing, like if your football team was Justice and you had to watch your team lose 58-0 to the opposing team, Tyranny.
That is wonderful news - but it makes me wonder if the state department thought they were creating a gesture of goodwill by sending a Muslim home in time for Christmas.
Hitler liked dogs, too.
Thank god. This story was so sad and has made me so angry with our government. Oops. I shouldn't say that. I'll be packed off next. I'm learning Arabic, that's probably enough for the DoD to put me in Guantanamo.
hooray for US policy - creating a situation where 'is home in Sudan' is considered good news. Sudan is hardly a place to be pleased to go home to now, a despicable government, ethnic conflict (darfur) and a corrupt oil economy.
You may want to help draw attention to the plight of Sami al-Haj, an Al-Jazeera cameraman held at Guantanamo Bay for the past five years without charge or trial.
He should move to NY and get a job as a taxi driver I could see him holding up a sign for me at the airport...
You people are celebrating the releasing of a terrorist? He should of been 'freed' from this world with a well placed bullet courtesy of the US Marines.
Machine, stop listening to Rush Limbaugh - he's a liar. If this guy was anywhere NEAR being a terrorist, he never would have been released.
Those interested in learning more about the Code Pink activist who represented Mr. Hamad in the photograph accompanying this post can read more here.
Link hash apologies. Learn more here: http://codepinkdc.blogspot.com/2007/12/notes-from-dc.html
peace, tako.
The sad thing is, I think Machine is right. Adel probably is a terrorist ... now. I know if you kidnaped me and locked me up for 5 years on BS charges I would commit the rest of my life to getting some payback. At the very least this story (by which I mean America's actions) inspires terrorists to fight against a truely evil system.
P.S. Have we compensated Hamad in any way? I'm just curious to know what price-tag we're putting on 5 years these days.
I second #4.
#10, you are nought but a troll, and I shall not rise to your flamebait.
It's way overdue, but any innocent person released from Gitmo is a cause for celebration.
If he was "innocent" he never would of been at Guantanamo.
@15, Machine:
You want to believe that the torture and unlawful incarceration of *suspected* persons is totally justified. You want these efforts to be working, instead of fruitless and unethical. US prisoners are sometimes found to be innocent and are released--this happens in our country, to our own citizens! We as a culture seem to want to punish indiscriminately more than point the finger at the right person, and that's wrong.
Those who are sent to Gitmo don't have the same legal rights to try to prove their innocence; no one who is rooting for them in the legal system is paid any mind, and they are tortured, whether or not they have been correctly linked to any crime. They are tortured, and they COULD be innocent. Why not look for proof first, instead of allowing McCarthyism to take us over? How disgusting and childish!
Just wishing for something does not make it true. If even one person in US prisons or in Gitmo, foreigner or citizen, is innocent, even if s/he is NOT innocent, and is raped, tortured, or otherwise mistreated and dehumanized, in Gitmo or in a typical jail/prison, doesn't that make you feel disgusted? Is it NOT disgusting that we can treat other human beings this way, regardless of who they are and what they've done?
I shall rise to the bait but briefly. When logic and reason fail; attack the grammar and spelling. :)
Machine: It would be "release" not "releasing", and the correct turn of phrase is "have been", not "of been".
Your level of insight and intelligence is betrayed in myriad ways in your comments, the least of which is your grammar. Go peddle your poorly informed, unreasoning parroting somewhere else.
Thank you.
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
For a detailed story of the shameful circumstances of Adel's capture, the ground-breaking complaints of a serving US military officer after his kangaroo court tribunal at Guantanamo, and the reason for the two-year delay in his release, after being cleared by a military review board, see the following article on my website: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=182
And yes, please do campaign for Sami al-Haj, the Sudanese al-Jazeera cameraman who seems to have been kidnapped solely because the authorities sought to find someone who would "confess" that al-Jazeera was connected to al-Qaeda.
Aileinduinn,
Thank you. I get so sick of these uneducated nutters spouting their hatred and their uninformed opinions.
Your post made me realize how well-written most of the comments at Boing Boing are, because I'm someone who hears a non-grammatical construction as something akin to nails on a chalkboard, and reading the comments section is relatively painless for me.
You mean you don't like scra-scra-scra-scratching and prefer us all to eat Uniformed Opinionions?
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OK, OK, relax. This is getting out of hand. Do your stuff, Muppet. Ciao.
Machine, you're either a troll or a staggeringly lazy thinker. Possibly you're both.