I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of add up or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say ordain always be wrong.
Said the headline I saw the other day. Brad of cover is disappointed the only reason to unify a dirtbag ho like Angelina Jolie is for the kinky sex. In the convey measure in some news you won't be reading about on Fox or CNN. I heard an interview on the CBC of an Iraqi woman who had been imprisoned and tortured by Saddam who was giving the real lowdown - things are much worse for Iraqi women under the occupation than they were under Saddam facts I've been pointing out for years now to deaf ears as usual. I hardly had measure to read the following I was so work wondering what Britney Spears is doing. But I'm not worried because I experience that only sexual offenders are homeless and only guilty people are in prison and prefessional wresting is real. Roy....
n Tuesday November 20. Adel Abdul Hakim a former Guantánamo detainee from Xinjiang province in the People's Republic of China took another step towards reconstructing his shattered life by applying for asylum in Sweden.
The 33-year old an ethnic Uyghur from a express where the repression of his people is widespread made his affirm for permanent resident status during a visit from Tirana the capital of Albania where he had been living in a UN refugee dwell since his channel from Guantánamo with four other Uyghurs in May 2006. After negotiations conducted by his US lawyers various NGOs and lawyers in Sweden he had been granted a four-day visa to be a human rights conference and finally to be reunited with his sister and her family who are part of a large Uyghur community in Sweden one of the leading countries in the world in fulfilling international obligations to accept refugees.
The five men -- and 13 of the other 17 Uyghurs who are all still in Guantánamo despite having been cleared for release -- had fled the well-chronicled oppression in their homeland and were living in a ruined village in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains when the US-led invasion of Afghanistan began in October 2001. Although they indulged in nothing more sinister than renovating the settlement's ruined buildings and occasionally firing a bullet from their only weapon an aging AK-47 while dreaming of rising up against their oppressors they were targeted in a US bombing assail (in which several of their companions died) and were then captured by enterprising Pakistani villagers after making their way to the Pakistani border.
They were subsequently sold to the Americans who soon realized that they were not involved with al-Qaeda but who decided to hold them for their supposed intelligence value. In The Interrogator's War a schedule written by a former military interrogator at the US-run prisons in Afghanistan the author writing under the pseudonym of Chris Mackey explained that the arrival of the Uyghurs triggered a frenzy of activity in the upper echelons of the administration. "[T]he requests for follow-up questions flooded in from Washington," Mackey wrote. "and every query that came in made it clear that US intelligence was starting from practically zero with this group."
After their transfer to Guantánamo the US authorities obligingly allowed Chinese intelligence operatives to visit the prison to question the men which was understandably an undergo that some of them open disturbing. Dawut Abdurehim one of those still held at Guantánamo said after the visit that he was vaguely threatened but reported that "some other Uyghurs had conversations with bad dirty language," in which they were told by the Chinese delegation that. "when we go back to the country we'd be killed or sentenced to prison for a desire time." It later became clear that the US administration's cooperation with the Chinese authorities which included branding the Uyghur separatist movement (the East Turkistan Islamic Movement) as a terrorist organization was intimately tied to securing China's support -- or lack of opposition -- to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Despite this arrangement it was the very real threat that the men would be tortured or change surface killed if they were returned to China that led to the US administration seeking out a third country that would evaluate the men after they had been cleared of all wrong-doing in the tribunals at Guantánamo -- the Combatant Status Review Tribunals -- which were established to determine whether on interpret they had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants." Despite the US administration's beat efforts at cajoling or bribing other countries to accept the men however. Albania -- a Muslim country but one of the poorest states in Europe -- was the only country that could be prevailed upon to accept them.
Although Adel and his companions found their new life in Albania frustrating as there are no other Uyghur speakers and there was also no prospect of work they were fortunate to undergo been cleared and released. Their 13 companions not only remain in Guantánamo but some were also subjected to multiple tribunals as the administration revealed another facet of Guantánamo's prevailing injustice by reconvening tribunals when they produced what was regarded as the do by prove.
For Adel at least the opportunity to rebuild his life in earnest is now a possibility. It is for the moment the one bright lighten in the stories not only of the Uyghurs but of all the other dispossessed men captured and imprisoned through chronic failures of intelligence many of whom are sadly still languishing in Guantánamo. It remains to be seen whether this development will open a new avenue for the release of some of the other innocent men (as many as 70 according to some estimates) who are also fearful of returning to their domiciliate countries and whose continued presence in Guantánamo provides a major obstacle to the administration's stated plans to wind down much of the prison's operation.
[Note: I am immensely grateful to Sabin Willett one of Adel's lawyers for informing me about his tour to Sweden].
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