Guantanamo Bay Prison

There's a story in the Kansas City Star about the prisoners at Gitmo. It includes the stories of and a couple quotes from 4 detainees.

Ahamed Abdul Aziz has been in the Guantanamo Bay prison for more than three years and says he has been interrogated 50 times without being charged with any crime. He waits with anguish for freedom but fears it will never come.

“We are in a grave here,” he told his lawyers, echoing the despair felt by many of the roughly 490 prisoners held as suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. Charges have been filed against only 10 of them.

(snip)

“I don’t want to spend any more time here. Not one more minute,” Afghan prisoner Mohammed Gul said at a combat status review tribunal.

Another unidentified Afghan man told his tribunal: “I was not a Taliban. I was not against the Americans. I want to go home.”

An Afghan man, identified only as Abdul in one of the transcripts, urged U.S. military officers overseeing his tribunal to free him so he could feed his family.

“I don’t know what they have to eat,” he said.

What Pentagon officials say just doesn't jibe with their actions. They have approximately 490 prisoners now, but have released or handed over to authorities in their native country, 270 prisoners since opening the prison in 2002. Yet...

U.S. officials say the camp houses only people who want to kill American troops or civilians.

Remember that quote the next time you hear of detainees' being released. None in custody now are innocent, right?

Further, remember the words "I was not against the Americans."

And finally, remember their stories. I don't know about you, but if I were treated as these men have been and then released, I would hate Americans. Bush is probably running his own little recruitment center for terrorists.