Monday, April 25, 2011

Wikileaks, the prisoners in Guantanamo "was enough to wear a Casio"

Demonstrators protesting in London about the detention of British citizens in U.S. prisons to be locked up in maximum security prison at Guantanamo U.S. have done enough, "a trip to Afghanistan for any reason after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001." Or wear a precise model of Casio, "often delivered to the students of explosives in Al Qaeda in Afghanistan." Thus, at least 150 people were detained even if innocent.

Among these, a 89enne Afghan suffering from senile dementia and a 14 year old kidnapped by the Taliban. E 'according to new cables released by WikiLeaks site: 759 files U.S. military prison on the island of Cuba, classified as' secret' U.S. military. Its dissemination, along with the hundreds of other documents, the military is accused Bradley Manning.

In a statement, the Pentagon has described as "regrettable" the publication of documents, incomplete assessments that would help to understand the complex situation in Guantanamo. The files relate to confidential U.S. intelligence analysis on all 779 detainees at Guantanamo Bay since 2002.

Some of these, 172 people are still imprisoned despite the decision of President Barack Obama to close the prison. According to the Guardian newspaper americanoThe - which published the documents along with the New York Times - from files would be clear as the detention of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo was more directed to "obtain information" that "to ensure everyone's safety and care of criminals.

" Many of the new cables collect the profiles created by U.S. analysts for each prisoner. Their level of danger for the country if released, was classified into 'high', 'average' or 'low'. The decision was taken on the basis of interviews made by the suspects. "Fundamentals inconsistent - according to The Guardian - or on the basis of confessions extracted under dark mistreatment." Waterborarding - a sort of 'controlled drowning' - positions, or forced sleep deprivation and food: torture is already known, told by the witnesses and admitted in a low voice by the same forces U.S.

arm. What was not known, however, is that the statements made in this way were considered to be more than valuable to hold prisoners for years. As some British nationals, held despite the U.S. military were aware of their non-involvement in terrorist groups. They could, however, know something useful.

As an Afghan mullah, for his position, "could have privileged knowledge of the Taliban." Knowledge that the religious leader of Kandahar had not, but the man was released a year after the decision of the analysts of its limited use. His case is among those considered innocent of the 150 prisoners but held.

As the Afghan farmer Mohammed Sadiq, 89 years at the time and suffering from senile dementia. Sadiq was intended to Guantanamo for some "details of suspects and found in his apartment belonging to his son. In Cuba, was interrogated for six weeks and found "not affiliated with al Qaida and void of intelligence for the United States." Yet his release took place only four months later.

Among the stories spread by Wikileaks there is also that of a 14 year old boy, kidnapped by the Taliban and forced to join the terrorist organization. His attendance, though forced, with the militia was enough to detain the man, detained for "his possible contacts with local leaders of the Taliban," reports the American newspaper.

Part of the 759 documents released by WikiLeaks also covers information on U.S. intelligence shelters al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al Zawahiri. According to the cables released by Julian Assange, four days after the collapse of the Twin Towers, Bin Laden was in Kandahar, committed to encourage combatants to fight "in the name of Allah" and to "defend Afghanistan from foreign invaders." The two leaders of the terrorist group would have moved for months in the car at home.

For fear of being captured by the U.S. military, bin Laden would assume control of operations at the Shura Council. Until December 2011, the two leaders would have taken refuge in a secret bunker in Tora Bora, the mountains of western Afghanistan. Secret to the U.S. military, but not for their men, who would meet regularly and decided that the military strategy.

During one such meeting, Bin Laden decided to withdraw all fighters from the camps and move women and children - including some of his wives - in Pakistan has always been accused of protecting al-Qaeda terrorists. In the hardest moments of the fighting in the winter of 2001, Bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora would be to Pakistan, seven thousand dollars by borrowing from its patrons, then added back.

Since then, U.S. intelligence information are more sparse. Even the arrest by the CIA of some of his loyalists are able to provide details about its possible new shelters.

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