Monday, April 25, 2011

Wikileaks publishes documents on Guantanamo prisoners

According to documents of the American army on the war in Afghanistan and subsequent occupation of Iraq, published in July and October 2010, after the State Department telegrams, broadcast in November and December 2010, Wikileaks has made provision of the World and several international newspapers a set of confidential documents of the Judiciary U.S.

military on Guantanamo detainees. This is, essentially, files of more than 750 foreign nationals suspected of terrorist arrested after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and transferred to the detention camp established in January 2002 on the U.S. base in the Cuba. Each of these files detailing Vital detained, the circumstances of his capture, the results of his interrogation, his possible links with a terrorist organization, his behavior in custody, the assessment of risk it poses to the safety of United States and its allies, and includes a recommendation on the fate which must be booked by the U.S.

military administration. Taken together, written in legal jargon-military procedure combining cold and sometimes tragic human details, these files and notes of general instructions that accompany them provide the image of a company desperate judicial and prison, created to try to control the threat that the United States have faced in the immediate aftermath of Sept.

11, but they were never able to find a parade, neither rational nor respectful of the criteria of the rule of law. Created by the administration of George W. Bush, Guantanamo Bay has become in the world, the symbol of the perverse effects of the "global war against terror", to the point that Barack Obama has pledged to close it during his 2008 election campaign.

However, to date, there is not reached and, nine years after its inception, 172 men are still detained. Sylvie Kauffmann

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