I love how people are buying this detainee’s story with little question. He just happened to be in Pakistan in September 2001, trying to “sell silver.” Or as they all say, I was just selling diapers. Or honey. Or teaching the Koran. Did you just leave the matinee of “The Conspirator?” Where you learned that the military is bad and detainees are good?
One should realize that the U.S. has gone over these stories many times. There is a reason they didn’t buy his story and held onto this guy, until he’d been out of the loop long enough + they got Morocco to take him back.
One should not forget that lying to the infidel to achieve one’s ends and manipulating the Western media and gullible leftists are hallmarks of al-Qaeda’s asymmetric warfare strategy.
Now, I say try them before a military tribunal and be done with it. But with the conflict created by populating the Justice Dept with the same Covington and Burling “lawyers” that represented these detainees, that
conflict makes prosecution impossible. Unless and until the administration changes. So Obama and Holder are the reason for the last 2+ years of detention without trial.
As I was reading the link, I was thinking this guy was just spinning a yarn myself. BUT it isn’t outside the realm of plausibility that corrupt Pakistani police saw an easy way to make $5000 off some dimwit. $5k for a Pakistani policeman is a LOT of money.
According to other articles he was re-arrested in Morocco for “belonging to an unauthorized group”.
I think if people are AQ they should be tried here by military tribunal, not released.