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| U.S. to Transfer 100 Guantanamo Prisoners |
| 2003-12-01 |
| SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - More than 100 men and boys will be transferred in the next two months from the U.S. jail for terrorism suspects in Cuba, including a teenager who allegedly killed an American special operations soldier, a U.S. military official said. The first of two new transfers is scheduled for the end of December, and the other in January, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The detainees would be released from U.S. custody, but it was unclear if any would face further detention or prosecution in their home countries. "Hi boys! Welcome to your new home in Bagram. Assume the position!" ``We do expect there will be other transfers but because of operational procedures, I can’t talk about any details,’’ Lt. Col. Pamela Hart said. ``We only talk about detainee movements after an operation is complete.’’ "However, I am permitted to tell you that the detainees being released bear a strong resemblance to empty toothpaste tubes." The military official who spoke on condition that his name not be revealed said that one of the boys who would be transferred shot and killed a special operations soldier in Afghanistan, where a U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001 and 11,500 American troops remain. The military official did not provide details about the incident, including the boy’s age, name or where or when the alleged shooting occurred. But he said that the boy apparently pretended to be dead, then opened fire on the American. Wonder what the juvenile detention facility looks like in Kabul? On Sunday, a Canadian citizen returned home after being released in October from Guantanamo. Abdulrhaman Khadr was captured in Afghanistan and held as an ``enemy combatant’’ by U.S. authorities for nine months, he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Khadr, the son of a suspected al-Qaida financier, said U.S. authorities refused to return him to Canada and instead flew him to Afghanistan. After his release, Khadr went to Iran and then Turkey before arriving late last week in Bosnia, he told CBC. Hit all the Islamist tourist sites, did he? At the Canadian Embassy in Sarajevo, Khader, who did not have a passport, was given a special permit to return to Canada, he told CBC. He was accompanied on his return to Toronto by a Canadian Let’s see what our allies to the north do with him. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the official in charge of the detention mission, said Wednesday that the three youngest boys at the jail, who range from 13 to 15 would be transferred soon, but he did not give a date. Before their capture by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, some of the youths held at the base were sexually abused; and they have received therapy at Guantanamo, the official said. The boys are kept separate from the adult population at the jail. Sexually abused? Does that happen in a good, Islamic society? |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 including a teenager who allegedly killed an American special operations soldier This is the younger brother of Abdulrhaman Khadr, who showed up back in Canada Sunday, although the article does not say. This younger bro should/will face the firing squad. Wait for the CBC to start whining, comparisons to Iran starting. |
| Posted by: john 2003-12-1 11:27:31 AM |
| #4 Don't put too much confidence in this article, RC. Afterall, this is a Gaurdian article. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-1 9:44:34 AM |
| #3 including a teenager who allegedly killed an American special operations soldier If this is the case I think it is, this wasn't "killed in battle", but "murdered after capture". This fellow should be a weather vane, not handed over to anyone else. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-1 7:58:54 AM |
| #2 " It wasn't me, it was the JOOOS! " " Mr Jackson, this isn't helping your case any. " |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-1 1:41:34 AM |
| #1 Before their capture by U.S. forces ... the youths ... were sexually abused Ahhh yes, one of the Pillars of Islam. Raping the boys in the madrasas. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-12-1 1:16:35 AM |