I’d like to emphasize this sentence trom the Guardian article about Binyam Mohemed which pow-wow and londonlad link to:

”[…] Suspicion is also growing that some sections of the US intelligence community would prefer Binyam did die inside Guantánamo. Silenced forever, only the sparse language of his diary would be left to recount his torture claims and interviewees with an MI5 officer, known only as Witness B. […] ”

The case of Saudi citizen Abd al Rahim al Nashiri

October 2002-Saudi citizen Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is captured in the United Arab Emirates. He is held incommunicado in CIA custody until being transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006. He is one of three detainees who the CIA Director Michael Hayden has admitted were waterboarded. [February 2008][63] [66] [67] See September 2006.

September 29, 2004-Saudi citizen and CIA detainee Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is sentenced to death in absentia by a Yemeni court. See October 2002 and September 2006. [67]

September 2006-Saudi citizen Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is transferred to Guantanamo. He had been captured in the United Arab Emirates in October 2002, and sentenced to death in absentia by a Yemeni court on September 29, 2004. There was a Combatant Status Review Tribunal on March 14, 2007. [63]

March 14, 2007- Combatant Status Review Tribunal for Saudi citizen Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who had been captured in United Arab Emirates in October 2002, held incommunicado by the CIA, and transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006. He states he was arrested by Americans, and has been tortured repeatedly, and that he has lied under torture. He also says that he believes the Yemeni prisoner who implicated him in the October 12, 2000 USS Cole bombing had also been tortured [in Yemen] and made false statements against him under torture. [63] He is charged with war crimes on December 4, 2008. Charges against him are dropped without prejudice on February 5, 2009. [66]

December 4, 2008- Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, murder and attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, and terrorism. These are the first charges to be brought from the investigation into the USS Cole bombing. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. He had been captured in United Arab Emirates in October 2002 and held incommunicado until being transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006. [67] See January 29, 2009.

January 29, 2009-The chief judge of the Guantanamo war court, Army Col. James Pohl refuses a request from President Barack Obama to freeze the military commissions there, and said he would go forward with next month's hearing for [Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri] an alleged USS Cole bomber in a capital terror case. […] Other war court judges, including the Army colonel presiding at the trial of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, agreed to the delay. [See January 22, 2009] [41] John Yoo writes in WSJ: “Obama Made a Rash Decision on Gitmo” [40] ACLU’s response: "Judge Pohl's decision to unabashedly move forward in the al-Nashiri military commission case shows how officials held over from the Bush administration are exploiting ambiguities in President Obama's executive order as a strategy to undercut the president's unequivocal promise to shut down Guantánamo and end the military commissions.” Charges against al-Nashiri are dismissed without prejudice on February 5, 2009.

February 5, 2009- The Military Commissions Convening Authority, Judge Susan Crawford dismisses without prejudice the charges against Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri who is accused of plotting the October 12, 2000 bombing of the Navy warship USS Cole. Al-Nashiri will remain in U.S. custody and could be recharged under the commissions system or a replacement drawn up by the Obama administration. He was captured in United Arab Emirates in October 2002. [66] See also January 29, 2009.

[66] Judge drops charges in USS Cole bombing case

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020503411_pf.html

[67] Human Rights Watch list of Detainees

http://www.hrw.org/features/guantanamo

Other sources at http://www.webdsi.com/jebbie/tlpage38.html and at sig.

Ondelette said:

President Obama has appointed a task force, they are to complete their work in six months, and Guantanamo is to be closed within a year. As for what happens to prisoners in the mean time, god knows. As for prisoners in the American prison colony of Afghanistan, god help them. Nobody else will.

If there is a God, I “cry out unto him from the wilderness”…

Please END this madness.

That just struck me as pretty funny...

My two cents.