It's All Smoke and Mirrors

If Abu Zabaydah was ‘not Number 3 [in al-Qaeda], not a partner, not even a fighter,’ then what was he and what kind of information could he have possibly provided? Wasn’t he supposed to have provided the information (his alias) that led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the arrest of Jose Padilla? You can read his combatant status review hearing (pdf) at the ACLU’s website.

9 Comments

robertdsc on June 16, 2009 at 2:47 pm

And yet no one will be prosecuted for his torture. Awesome.

BooMan on June 16, 2009 at 2:52 pm

it makes for sad reading seeing how the guy has seizures, can’t talk, has shrapnel in his head, his left leg doesn’t work, and he’s missing a testicle for some reason, and is obsessed with getting access to the writing and poetry he’s done since he was 16 years old (and which the government will not return to him).
- lyvwyr101 on June 16, 2009 at 3:03 pm
  
  The policies of the Bush White House and the opinions of Dick Cheney become more of a disgrace to this country every day.
  
  What the hell were people even thinking to send this crew to the White House, to begin with?
  
  They really believed they were fit to conquer and run the entire world? They really believed there would be a permanent republican majority?
  
  They thought Bush would be a permanent president?
  
  Saddest joke ‘out there’-now.
  
  Still trying to dig out from under.
  - dada on June 16, 2009 at 3:15 pm
    
    The policies of the Bush White House and the opinions of Dick Cheney become more of a disgrace to this country every day.
    
    indeed they do…now they’re becoming obama’s policies and opinions.
    
    change you can believe in?…not yet.
- Mattes on June 16, 2009 at 5:07 pm
  
  The dehumanizing of Arabs.
  - Mattes on June 16, 2009 at 5:08 pm
    
    …and Muslims.
    - Hurria on June 16, 2009 at 8:20 pm
      
      And bottom line? Human beings.