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10 Feb 10
Cageprisoners.com - serving the caged prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
letter back to Sunday Times
BBC World Service - News - Amnesty row
ref Londontimes article about Tie to Jihadi
this is BBC interview which explores the conflict with woman who was suspended from Amnesty
29 Jan 10
Danielle Celena Belton: New York Times Recycles Debunked Gitmo Recidivism Story
did released prisoners return to terrorism
06 Jan 10
Gates on Guantanamo: Only a ‘Four or Five Percent’ Recidivism Rate « The Washington Independent
Ackerman on Gates testimony in early 2009
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Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) asks Defense Secretary Bob Gates about Guantanamo. Finally.
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Gates doesn’t really make an overt pushback, but he subtly points out that Guantanamo isn’t something to be afraid of. The total recidivism numbers “until recently” from Guantanamo have been on the order of “four or five percent, but there’s been an uptick in recent months.” Worst of the worst, huh? So much for the bogus 61 detainees back in the fight number — which, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations based on about 750 detainees having gone through Guantanamo in total, would be about eight percent, or double Gates’ total.
appendix july 20.pdf (application/pdf Object)
list of all released detainees
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
returning to battle - how real is the argument and the actual figures
A Sewer on report from Peter Bergen at New Ameriuca
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Several times, the Pentagon has repeated the canard that "1 in 7" former Guantanamo detainees has returned to the battlefield. Seton Hall Professor Mark Denbeaux has been diligent in contradicting the government's claims; in one embarrassing instance, it pointed out that several former detainees who had participated in the anti-Gitmo Road to Guantanamo documentary had been listed among those who "returned to the fight."
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Contrary to recent assertions that one in seven, or 14 percent, of the former prisoners had "returned to the battlefield
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10 Jun 09
Registan.net » Simply Appalling
Uhigurs gate of black mark on Obama
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The above paragraph comes from a Politico story about the fate of the Guantanamo Uighurs. It is a gross mischaracterization of the reasons why their continued imprisonment is such an issue: the U.S. is, if I have read the case correctly, legally prohibited from repatriating them into China, since they face torture and summary execution.
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