Guantanamo and the many failures of US politicians
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
05/26/09
In the summer of 2002, as Jane Mayer described it in her book The Dark Side, ‘The CIA, concerned by the paucity of valuable information emanating from [Guantanamo], dispatched a senior intelligence analyst, who was fluent in Arabic and expert on Islamic extremism, to find out what the problem was.’ After interviewing a random sample of two dozen or so Arabic-speaking prisoners, the analyst ‘concluded that an estimated one-third of the prison camp’s population of more than 600 captives at the time, meaning more than 200 individuals, had no connection to terrorism whatsoever’...
https://www.fff.org/comment/com0905l.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jane+Mayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
by Andy Worthington
05/26/09
In the summer of 2002, as Jane Mayer described it in her book The Dark Side, ‘The CIA, concerned by the paucity of valuable information emanating from [Guantanamo], dispatched a senior intelligence analyst, who was fluent in Arabic and expert on Islamic extremism, to find out what the problem was.’ After interviewing a random sample of two dozen or so Arabic-speaking prisoners, the analyst ‘concluded that an estimated one-third of the prison camp’s population of more than 600 captives at the time, meaning more than 200 individuals, had no connection to terrorism whatsoever’...
https://www.fff.org/comment/com0905l.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jane+Mayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
rudkla - 27. Mai, 10:36
