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Even Corporate Lawyers Can't Stand the Sins of Guantanamo

Stories My Father Told Me

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When America went to "the dark side" to fight terrorism, she became unrecognizable to the world. That's when my father took on the case of Guantánamo prisoner number 707 and became unrecognizable to me.

He is basically talking to himself. The words come out, the translator translates them into Arabic. But then they just seem to linger, reverberating off the cell walls and ceiling, unacknowledged. The room is just as the lawyer had imagined it would be. An eight-by-ten steel-and-concrete shed, with a separate holding cell and bunk to the right. He is sitting with his translator and the JAG lawyer detailed to the case at a small metal card table. All of this is just as he had pictured in his mind. It is the man shackled to the floor right in front of him he couldn't come to terms with. The briefing material estimates the man's age at about thirty-five. But he appears far older — the seven years he's spent locked out of sight have aged him severely. His slight black face is dull and cracked like an old road. His long black beard is streaked with gray, his fingernails yellow, his upper teeth missing. He's managed to flip his sandals off to one side and lean back in his chair. He is slouching, looking away.

The lawyer spent six months trying to get into this room. He'd written letter after letter to the prisoner. He'd come to Guantánamo twice before to see him, and on each visit he'd been turned away without explanation. But today, the day before the arraignment, the prisoner has agreed to see him. Yet he does not talk and keeps looking away.

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And this is our fault ... how? By the way, the dark side of the fight IS TERRORISM!

Guantánamo prisoner number 707 would be one Noor Uthman Muhammed. He is just a peach of a human being by all counts. Have you ever been in Guantánamo yourself, I have not, but the pictures are nice.

Have you ever been in prison here in this country, I have? And because of this, I have to ask you what in the HELL you know about torture and state communal living conditions.

When are you bleeding hearts going to comprehend that Guantánamo is a PRISON and NOT the local Holiday Inn? The detainees there are criminals and place NO value on their own lives as long as Allah is served, but then they have people like you to trumpet their causes and virtues for them.

Look at what 707 has stated (his denials) and then at what we know he did do, and then if you can convince me (with a straight face) that 911 was just a defensive gesture on the part of these new friends of yours, we can chat further.

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When America went to "the dark side" to fight terrorism, she became unrecognizable to the world.

Simply laughable. Perhaps just cutting their heads off, an action they can understand and identify with, would be more culturally acceptable?

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When America went to "the dark side" to fight terrorism, she became unrecognizable to the world.

Simply laughable. Perhaps just cutting their heads off, an action they can understand and identify with, would be more culturally acceptable?

It would be culturally acceptable! So would that mean we would be recognizable to the world?

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It would be culturally acceptable! So would that mean we would be recognizable to the world?

Many Native Americans burned their enemies alive on open fires. We could do that citing "cultural" reasons. Bless those liberals, they would place a napkin around the neck of a cannibal before being eaten.

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