Not one of the legal firms that assisted Gitmo terrorists have helped any of those charged with ties to January 6. In 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union went so far as to create an entire group of lawyers ready to defend Gitmo detainees under the John Adams Project, to show their dedication to ensuring all have a top-notch defense.
But by the time the Pentagon let the lawyers visit, hundreds of the detainees were already gone, many of them sent back to Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the minds of many people, the roughly 780 men and boys who were held at remote Guantánamo are still nameless, identically clad men locked behind razor wire.
Shortly after taking office, Biden reversed President Trump’s executive order to keep Gitmo open and is lining up inmates to transfer out of the prison with the goal of emptying it and shuttering it-even though the remaining prisoners have long been classified by military intelligence as the worst of the worst and too dangerous to release.
In the first years of the war in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay was off limits to lawyers seeking to represent the detainees there, and the Bush administration refused to disclose the prisoners’ names.
In 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union went so far as to create an entire group of lawyers ready to defend Gitmo detainees under the John Adams Project, to show their dedication to ensuring all have a top-notch defense.
Civil liberties advocates say the treatment of January 6 defendants reveals an alarming threat to American jurisprudence. Some blame intimidation from well-funded leftist groups for the lack of a competent defense. Lawyers who do exert effort in providing such a defense have been harrassed.
The suspected 20th hijacker, Mohammad al-Qahtani, and a dozen other inmates are slated for parole hearings this year, documents reveal.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad is being held at Guantanamo on charges of planning and aiding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, President Biden is quietly freeing more of these terrorist suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison , all to fulfill his old boss’ pledge to permanently close the facility in Cuba.
Khairullah Khairkhwa, former western Herat Governor was released from the US prison on Guantanamo Bay in exchange for US Soldier Bowe Bergdahl.
Republicans and counterterrorism experts say the high Gitmo recidivism rate is further evidence that Biden’s plans for closing the prison are dangerously misguided. Clearing out the prison would require resettling many of the terrorist suspects overseas in countries that have a poor track record of rehabilitating them and controlling them to ensure they don’t return to violent jihad. And many of the remaining prisoners are from Yemen, which is too unstable to take custody of them. So those dangerous detainees would have to be moved to US prisons, which don’t have the same level of security as Gitmo.
“Inside your uniform. Ice cube, full. My body was full. And then I was like shaking uncontrollably like this. They start hitting me everywhere, hitting,” he tells Williams. He thinks the beating lasted about three hours and said “I was moaning like a woman giving birth.”
Mohamedou Slahi, whose personal enhanced interrogation program was directly approved by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and has since been outlawed, praised the American people for allowing him to write a book about his experience at Guantanamo Bay. The former detainee was the only one held at Guantanamo to write a book ...
Slahi also told Williams that his guards became like family to him. One of those guards who wrote a letter to the review board in support of Slahi’s release appears in the report and tells Williams, “He wasn’t this horrible terrorist that, you know, I was expecting to go guard. I was told everybody there was the worst of the worst, and this guy comes out with a smile on his face.”
Ex-Gitmo detainee on torture: "They broke me". In his first TV interview, Mohamedou Slahi describes being tortured at Guantanamo Bay -- and how some of his guards became like family. Gitmo detainee: "They broke me".
law enforcement and after the attacks of 9/11 he was arrested in Mauritania, then taken to Jordan by the CIA, before eventually being sent to Guantanamo and tortured.
The former detainee was the only one held at Guantanamo to write a book that was published while he was still in the prison. Mohamedou Slahi CBS News. Now, in his first television interview since being released last October, he tells his remarkable story on 60 Minutes.
Holly Williams went to Slahi’s home country of Mauritania to interview him for the two-part report to be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Slahi who spoke almost no English when he arrived at Guantanamo, soaked up the language by reading popular books and conversing with his guards and interrogators.
Supreme Court. Click open Detainee 768, Ah med Muhammed Haza al-Darbi, and you can read about the man who was the most recent to be released.
Click open one row and you can find Haji Nusrat Khan, an Afghan man who was once Guantánamo’s oldest detainee.
In the minds of many people, the roughly 780 men and boys who were held at remote Guantánamo are still nameless, identically clad men locked behind razor wire. Forty remain there today, while the rest have been repatriated or dispersed around the world. But in the tug of war for transparency there, time does win out.
The docket is one of longest continually updated digital projects undertaken by The Times. Its overhaul solidifies its status as the most comprehensive public catalog of the men in orange.
The Guantánamo Docket, a database that tracks men and boys who have been detained there, is one of the longest continually updated digital projects undertaken by The Times. Credit... Richard Perry/The New York Times. By Carol Rosenberg. June 15, 2021.
intelligence documents — sometimes because of faulty intelligence, at others because of cultural ignorance — even as their numbers remained the same.
But in the tug of war for transparency there, time does win out.
Samsel pushed the flimsy bike racks and stormed the US Capitol. Samsel reportedly injured a female police officer.
Joseph McBride: I am alleging that the guards are beating them up. The staff are beating prisoners on a regular basis and have been doing so for a long time. This is no exaggeration.
On March 21, he was awakened by correctional officers, his hands zip-tied, then walked to an unoccupied cell and brutally beaten by the officers. Then Ryan Samsel lost an eye in the beating.
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Joseph McBride: He absolutely was. He was beaten. He was dragged. He was hog-tied. One time his pants dropped below his ankles exposing his private parts while he was taking a beating in front of a female officer. And he had to beg and plead to pull his pants up.
Police first named Figueroa as a suspect in July of 2018 and cited forensic evidence. Since then they have studied his cellphone data, video recordings, financial data, social media posts and at one point obtained a court-order for a wiretap inside a correctional facility.
According to the grand jury indictment, Figueroa told a cellmate that he had strangled Guierrez-Garcia and buried her in a place that he never plans to reveal to anyone.
Juan Jose Figueroa Jr. (credit: Boulder County) Figueroa, 32, is currently serving time in a prison in Buena Vista for his conviction in a Longmont sex assault case in 2017.