I'm just wondering did everyone miss my post?
On February 7, 2006, Mark Denbeaux, professor at Seton Hall University Law School and counsel to two Guantanamo detainees, and Joshua Denbeaux
released a report on the Guantanamo detainees.
This report used information contained in the Combatant Status Review Board Letters, released by the Department of Defense, to compile a profile on
the detainees. It provides a more detailed picture of who the detainees are, how they ended up at Guantanamo, and what evidence there is to support
their classification as enemy combatants.
Some of the information contained in the report include the fact that only 8% of the detainees are classified as Al Qaeda fighters and only 5%
were actually captured by US forces (most were arrested by Pakistan and the Northern Alliance and then turned over to the United
States).
www.globalsecurity.org...
The majority of the 89,000 or so people detained during the course of the war on terror are
NOT detained by US Forces.
The Marines and Rangers aren't cops or detectives, the US physically doesn't have the capacity to devote a good portion of deployed forces to
capturing, detaining and searching for evidence.
Most of the guys in Abu Ghraib and especially at Guantanamo (the majority of which are from Afghanistan) are captured by US-aligned, local
factions.
Eg: The Northern Alliance, Kurdish Rebels, Iraqi Security Forces, etc...
They turn over enemy combatants simply for personal reasons. These guys could care less about the "War on Terror" or locking up suspected
terrorists. Even though they may support US Forces it doesn't mean their any different from the former regimes of Iraq or Afghanistan.
The Northern Alliance have widely been reported to commit war crimes:
www.wsws.org...
www.abc.net.au...
While Kurdish Militias like the PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) are even designated terrorists groups by the EU and Turkey:
permanent.access.gpo.gov...
The two primary reasons they turn over "suspected terrorists" to the US are:
1.
Retribution. Eg: Yusuf and his Afghani tribe capture Ahmed, a man from a rival tribe who killed his cousin years ago and who owns a
huge Opium plantation. With Ahmed gone, Yusuf controls the Plantation, exports the Opium, makes a truckload of money and finances his militias.
More than likely this is primary reason there has been such a huge influx of detainees during the course of the "War on Terror". Most of formerly
oppressed minority ethnic groups, factions and such now see this as their chance to seek vengeance on the people who were in power or those that
wronged them in the past.
Iraq and Afghanistan have very large "tribal" regions, where families control big portions of land. It's almost like the Wild West out there, any
opportunity they get to take something from a rival tribe or get one over them they'll do it.
You have to understand that most of these so-called "freedom fighters" like the Northern Alliance only have their own interests close to heart, when
the US leaves Afghanistan their not going to devote themselves to weeding out more terrorists, their going to attempt to take over Afghanistan and
impose their rule like they've been trying to do for decades.
2.
Money. US Forces give out handsome bounties to indigenous forces for captured combatants, sometimes as high as $25,000 (US)per man,
depending on who they were suspected to be.
A former CIA intelligence officer who helped lead the search for Osama bin Laden told AP the accounts sounded legitimate because U.S. allies
regularly got money to help catch Taliban and al-Qaida fighters. Gary Schroen said he took a suitcase of $3 million in cash into Afghanistan himself
to help supply and win over warlords to fight for U.S. Special Forces.
www.talkleft.com...
Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The
Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
www.commondreams.org...
www.theglobeandmail.com...
For obvious reasons this is another extremely attractive option for many US-aligned militias to begin turning over everyone and anyone they can
find.
Afghanistan is one of the world's poorest nations, with Iraq not quite as far gone but close to it.
Militias need food, weapons, transport and money to recruit more men with.
You think presented an opportunity like this, their going to give a damn about whether they give the right people into the US Hands?
Not likely... they'll turn over any and every man they can their hands on.
It's almost like a Free Cash Programme for these people.
All they have to do is tell some American Captain they found this guy preparing a car bomb somewhere or this guy was in a house used by Insurgents and
that's where the questions end. In return their handed cash.
Simple as that.
Put yourself in their shoes, I'll bet you wouldn't be too discriminating if you had to chance to make a quick million just by capturing a few
innocent Iraqis or Afghanis.
The fact is with no tight controls or regulation over who the US accepts from all these militias and allied forces we will keep detaining and
incarcerating a good majority of innocent folks who have yet to commit a crime.
We don't know who 90% of the detainees the US Army processes are, where their from or what they did.
All they know is the dubious information the Northern Alliance gave them, or some Kurdish Rebel; which as budski said is like trusting the testimony
of a known serial killer or gang member.
The US really needs to shape up this whole detention process and start taking the initiative here to develop units who are devoted to capturing known
Insurgents with the facts and proof to back it up.
Otherwise what your essentially doing here is adding fuel to the fire your trying to fight.
How many of these wrongfully detained prisoners (and likely tortured) from Iraq & Afghanistan are going to become Insurgents after their released?
[edit on 16/5/08 by The Godfather of Conspira]
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