(Here are just 3 stories that discredit the liar GATES.
It comes from the Hearing that should be in the NEWS )
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
City on the Hill or Prison on the Bay? The Mistakes of Guantanamo and the Decline of America’s Image, Part II
Hearing Notice, The Honorable Bill Delahunt, Mr. Murat Kurnaz, Appendices, Stephen Abraham, Esq, Mark P. Denbeaux, Esq., Appendices, Clive Stafford Smith, Esq., P. Sabin Willett, Esq., Glenn M. Sulmasy, Esq.
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/sub_oversight.asp *********************************************************************************************
From Clive Stafford Smith's testimony:
....Mr. Abdallah’s innocence has been proved, and has been conceded by U.S. forces, yet he remains in Guantánamo Bay. He remains in Guantánamo because the U.S. has, as yet, failed to find him somewhere to go.
**** Yet there is a refuge that would be suitable for Mr. Abdallah and the other two Somali prisoners in Guantánamo Bay: the small, stable, de facto independent region of northwest Somalia known as Somaliland. The government of Somaliland is closely allied with the United States. Moreover, high-ranking members of this government—the Ministers of Interior and Foreign Affairs, the Speaker of the Parliament, and the leader of the chief opposition party—have all been alerted by my office to the cases of Somali prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. ***
It should, in principle, be relatively straightforward for the U.S. to transfer Mr. Abdallah, a UNHCR refugee who is patently innocent of any crime, to a friendly regime. For Mr. Abdallah the matter is urgent. He is an aging grandfather who never posed the slightest threat to the U.S. or its allies. It is no exaggeration to say he has little time left. His one wish now is to return to his family in Somaliland and live out his remaining years in peace with his loved ones.
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This kid was sent to Guantanamo at age 14.
Mohammed El Gharani is the second youngest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay today.
More than six years later, Mohammed has never been formally charged with any crime. The main allegation against him remains that he was a member of an Al Qaeda cell in London in 1998. The suggestion is ludicrous, and recently his interrogator has had the decency to apologize for the fact that the allegation has still not been dismissed: Mohammed would have been just 11 years old at the time – and had never been outside Saudi Arabia.
Today, Mohammed is kept in the maximum security Camp V. He is housed in a cell that is entirely made of steel. The neon lights are on 24 hours a day. He has nothing to do all day. Mohamed has also faced totally unacceptable abuse. Perhaps most damaging, the racial abuse has continued throughout his incarceration.
He has been deeply depressed and has made several suicide attempts, including slashing his wrists, trying to hang himself and running head-first into the wall as hard as he could.
Saudi Arabia refuses to take responsibility for him, so Chad seems to be the only option for his release.
***** However, until his volunteer legal representatives travelled to Chad, the Chad government reported that there had been no efforts by the U.S. to negotiated his release to the country of his nationality. He remains in Guantánamo Bay. ******
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Finally, let me mention Binyam Mohamed, a British resident from London.
The British confirmed to the U.S. that he was a “nobody” – a janitor from London. Nevertheless, the U.S. decided that he knew more than he was saying.
**** The U.K. has asked that Binyam Mohamed be returned to the U.K., where he will face any legal proceedings that the U.K. chooses to initiate. The U.K. is willing to be responsible for his custody and control. The U.S. should repatriate him rather than prolong and exacerbate the damage that this case has done both to the reputation of the U.S. and to Anglo-American relations. *********
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I highly recommend you read the testimony on this hearing.
2nd. please at least ready Prof's Mark Denbeaux's testimony
His figures and reseach is what you can send to your congress person's and ignorant friends and family.
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/den052008.pdf 
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