Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates

[Barrett]

Guantanamo guard goes to England to apologize to his ex-inmates.

BBC News - Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates

 

[Solomon2]

A cool story, but Ruhal Ahmed did previously confess to having trained at a terror camp. The ex-guard feels guilt not because he was part of an organization committing organized crime but because of communication problems he made a mistake in judgment and hurt an inmate. That's a "fog of war" error, not a criminal act. I would guess that Ruhal Ahmed doesn't deserve to be at the forgiveness end of this transaction - and that Ahmed thinks so as well.

 

[Barrett]

A cool story, but Ruhal Ahmed did previously confess to having trained at a terror camp. The ex-guard feels guilt not because he was part of an organization committing organized crime but because of communication problems he made a mistake in judgment and hurt an inmate. That's a "fog of war" error, not a criminal act. I would guess that Ruhal Ahmed doesn't deserve to be at the forgiveness end of this transaction - and that Ahmed thinks so as well.

You have to defend everything U.S does, good for you.
Can you please provide a link for Ruhails confession as this is something new to me and was it in custody ?

 

[Solomon2]

I did, under the word "confess". Here's the relevant part:

Buried away in the schedules with almost no advance publicity was Lie Lab. Making use of new techniques in magnetic resonance imaging, the programme set out to discover if its subjects were telling the truth. Last week those subjects were Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul, better known as two-thirds of the Tipton Three.

That was the name given to the three young men who were picked up in Afghanistan in late 2001 by American forces and transported to Guantanamo Bay, where they were held without charges or trial for two years before being released back to Britain.

Campaigners for the men have always maintained they were innocent tourists-cum-aid workers, caught up in the invasion of Afghanistan. This was also the line of Michael Winterbottom 's film, The Road to Guantanamo. And given the tone and approach of Lie Lab, it also seemed to be a belief shared by the programme makers.

But at the end of what was actually a rather dry and laborious piece of science TV, when confronted with results that suggested he was less than forthcoming with the truth, Ahmed confessed (Rasul had refused to go through with the test) not only to visiting an Islamist training camp but also handling weapons and learning how to use an AK47.

 

[Barrett]

You call that a confession ?

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

but Ruhal Ahmed did previously confess to having trained at a terror camp.

Even George bush would confess of being a canary once being tied with ropes and threatened of being beaten all naked .....!

 

[Barrett]

Even George bush would confess of being a canary once being tied with ropes and threatened of being beaten all naked .....!

Well that's the best part, all the torture and subhuman treatment and the best interrogation officers could not make him confess but some stupid Lie detector which has no credibility in the court of law becomes more important as the poor guy is muslim so its just not possible for him to be innocent.