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| Topic Started: Aug 27 2009, 11:44 AM (87 Views) | |
| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Aug 27 2009, 11:44 AM Post #1 |
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Guantanamo detainee to sue US ONE of the youngest detainees ever incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay will sue the US for compensation for his seven years behind bars without charge, his lawyer says. Mohammed Jawad, a minor when detained by US forces in Afghanistan, was put on a US military plane and returned home this week after a US federal judge gave the Government until August 24 to release him. "The way forward right now is to avail the Afghanistan Government and the US Government of funding to help train him and get him back to normalcy," lawyer Major Eric Montalvo said. "If you've deprived somebody of their liberty for seven years, nobody's going to be happy about that. So to now then not give him any compensation - any way to help him back to civilisation - this is unacceptable. "There is no difference between being confined in Guantanamo Bay or being left out in the wild without assistance," Mr Montalvo added. Montalvo, a US military lawyer, maintained Jawad was between 12 and 15 years old when he was detained. The Pentagon says he was 16 or 17 when arrested in Afghanistan on charges of throwing a grenade at a US convoy. The lawyer said Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak had pledged to assist Jawad but stressed that does not mean "we will not pursue the US Government to assist him in his transition". Jawad's legal advisers would pursue punitive procedures in the US federal courts but were also pressing for his immediate food and housing expenses to be taken care of, given his lack of education, poor family and widowed mother. "It does not take a lot of money to help him sustain his life in Afghanistan. So I think it's a very small amount of money that would make a big difference to this young man's life," Mr Montalvo said, declining to name a figure. "The process has not yet been initiated," he said. "The nature of that litigation will be something that we'll discuss at a later time." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25990722-23109,00.html Of course he has a case. But I doubt he will win, what with who he is going up against. They tend to have a bit of a history of avoiding blame, no matter how squarely it seems to be. |
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| Temerit | Aug 27 2009, 08:15 PM Post #2 |
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He should win. I want to slap the judge that denies him. |
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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Aug 28 2009, 11:37 AM Post #3 |
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I have no doubt that he should win, of course. But I'm just not convinced he will.  I'll definitely be following this. 
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| Suha Aezvina | Sep 18 2009, 01:29 PM Post #4 |
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He should definatly win, but I'm afraid no compensation can make up for his lost childhood; what happened in Guantanamo was pure abuse in my eyes, innocence lost when those years could have been spend growing compassion & learning - I can't imagine what 7 years of injust imprisonment would do to me. I see no reason why he should not win this case.. oh wait, it's the US.. Stories like these just make me want to do something, make me feel so powerless. |
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| gingerwitch28 | Sep 19 2009, 06:00 AM Post #5 |
twenty-first century ennui
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You could put saltpetre in Geert Wilders' food 
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