Guantanamo Detainees, Not Guilty

December 17th, 2006 at 18:09 Björn Hallberg

(AP) This is America’s war of terror rather. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the so called terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay turned out to be yoghurt salesmen after all. Which of course brings the entire rationale for what America has been saying and doing for the last five years into question. Of course, who would still be naive enough to trust America anyway?

The Pentagon called them “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth,” sweeping them up after Sept. 11 and hauling them in chains to a U.S. military prison in southeastern Cuba.

Since then, hundreds of the men have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to other countries, many of them for “continued detention.”

And then set free.

Decisions by more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe and South Asia to release the former detainees raise questions about whether they were really as dangerous as the United States claimed, or whether some of America’s staunchest allies have set terrorists and militants free.

Once the detainees arrived in other countries, 205 of the 245 were either freed without being charged or were cleared of charges related to their detention at Guantanamo. Forty either stand charged with crimes or continue to be detained.

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