Comments on: What A Difference A Year Makes http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/12/14/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: midderpidge http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/12/14/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/#comment-52664 midderpidge Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:54:24 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=3329#comment-52664 Incidently, a question about the George W Bush presidential library: why will it cost $500 million for a library that will host papers no one will ever be allowed to read and one book 'My Pet Goat'? Incidently, a question about the George W Bush presidential library: why will it cost $500 million for a library that will host papers no one will ever be allowed to read and one book ‘My Pet Goat’?

]]> By: midderpidge http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/12/14/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/#comment-52663 midderpidge Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:29:52 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=3329#comment-52663 Incidently, the AP just did an article detailing what it could find out about released Gitmo prisoners, some findings: "* Once the detainees arrived in other countries, 205 of the 245 were either freed without being charged or were cleared of charges related to their detention at Guantanamo. Forty either stand charged with crimes or continue to be detained. * The Afghan government has freed every one of the more than 83 Afghans sent home. Lawmaker Sibghatullah Mujaddedi, the head of Afghanistan's reconciliation commission, said many were innocent and wound up at Guantanamo because of tribal or personal rivalries. * At least 67 of 70 repatriated Pakistanis are free after spending a year in Adiala Jail. A senior Pakistani Interior Ministry official said investigators determined that most had been "sold" for bounties to U.S. forces by Afghan warlords who invented links between the men and al-Qaida. * All 29 detainees who were repatriated to Britain, Spain, Germany, Russia, Australia, Turkey, Denmark, Bahrain and the Maldives were freed, some within hours after being sent home for "continued detention." V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. Incidently, the AP just did an article detailing what it could find out about released Gitmo prisoners, some findings:

“* Once the detainees arrived in other countries, 205 of the 245 were either freed without being charged or were cleared of charges related to their detention at Guantanamo. Forty either stand charged with crimes or continue to be detained.

* The Afghan government has freed every one of the more than 83 Afghans sent home. Lawmaker Sibghatullah Mujaddedi, the head of Afghanistan’s reconciliation commission, said many were innocent and wound up at Guantanamo because of tribal or personal rivalries.

* At least 67 of 70 repatriated Pakistanis are free after spending a year in Adiala Jail. A senior Pakistani Interior Ministry official said investigators determined that most had been “sold” for bounties to U.S. forces by Afghan warlords who invented links between the men and al-Qaida.

* All 29 detainees who were repatriated to Britain, Spain, Germany, Russia, Australia, Turkey, Denmark, Bahrain and the Maldives were freed, some within hours after being sent home for “continued detention.”

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y.

]]> By: Pachacutec http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/12/14/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/#comment-52662 Pachacutec Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:39:46 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=3329#comment-52662 Zoinks! Nice catch. Zoinks! Nice catch.

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