| One man, Jamal al-Harith, was freed within hours of the group's arrival at Northolt Royal Air Force Base. The others were arrested under an anti-terrorism law but were not charged with any crime and were freed yesterday. They were identified as Ruhal Ahmed, Tarek Dergoul, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul.
Max Clifford, a spokesman for Dergoul's family, said Dergoul was in a mentally fragile condition, was having difficulty walking and would be taken to a private locale to be reunited with his family. Clifford said Dergoul had told his family he had been traveling in Afghanistan when he was captured and was in "the wrong place at the wrong time." |
No. He wasn't. Let's be very clear here. The wrong place at the wrong time is when you get caught in a flash flood.
The U.S. went apeshit with disregard to anything resembling legalities or human rights. That's why he was arrested, and that's why he was detained without charge or recourse for two years.
| Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has emphasized that the returned men had to be handled carefully because they could pose a security risk, but prosecutors, not Blair's ministers, had the decision whether to press charges. |
Well, Poodle's got a point. They could pose a risk now after the treatment they got. Them and their families for generations to come.
| Robert Lizar, the lawyer for al-Harith, who was released Tuesday at the air base, said his client wanted the U.S. authorities "to answer for the injustice which he has suffered."
"He has been detained as an innocent person for a period of two years. He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner, he wants the authorities to answer for that," Lizar added. |
| Greg Powell, lawyer for one of the freed men, said 21-year-old Rhuhel Ahmed...said he had met his client at the London jail where he was released and found him in good health. But his treatment at the hands of the Americans had amounted to "torture".
"What I have learned from him is Guantanamo Bay is a kind of experiment in interrogation techniques and methods, really. And they do have extremely interesting stories to tell about what went on there," Powell said. |
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