Monday, March 22, 2010

And So It Begins: Key Gitmo Detainee Who Help To Facilitate 9/11 Ordered Released

A watchtower at the Guantanamo detention facility.
Photo from Radio Free Europe


Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainee With Ties to 9/11 Attacks -- FOX News

WASHINGTON — A suspected Al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantanamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Military prosecutors suspected Slahi of links to other Al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004.

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More News On The Release of Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Key Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released -- Wall Street Journal
Judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee -- AP
Slahi Wins -- Attackerman

My Comment: If this stands, the precedent that it send is that all of the key 9/11 terror planners who were tortured (and they were tortured) must then be released. On a day where all the focus is on health care, this far reaching impact is all but ignored in most media reports.

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