by Captain Kangaroo
Most everybody seems to know that Guantanamo Bay Prison is a boondoggle at best and a house of horrors for sure. There is no doubt there are a few pretty bad players locked up in the made for terrorist fortress. There are people there who would seriously like to hurt America and kill Americans. There are people there who have pledged to destroy America.
This is not about them. This is about something different. Fayiz al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti, was picked up in Afghanistan almost eight years ago. He was doing charity work (which is part of his religion) when somebody turned him in and told the military that he was a bad actor. They turned him in to receive the bounty that the military was offering to people who helped them find people who wanted to do harm to Americans by way of terrorism. The military paid for Fayiz al-Kandari. The problem is they got somebody who they really did not want but they did not know it at the time and they cannot seem to correct their mistake.
The problem is that Fayiz is not a terrorist. He is not what they want. They interrogated him 400 times and his story has not changed. He is not the only one in GITMO who should not be there.
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Fayiz’ lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel Barry Wingard says that out of 240 detainees in GITMO at this time probably only 20 will be prosecuted. That is 20 not 20%. Why don’t they let the innocent guys go free?
Fayiz al-Kandari’s lawyer is passionate about this particular case because it flies in the face of what the military stands for. It flies in the face of what the United States stands for. He anticipated when he first got involved that this would just be another case of trying to defend a bad guy. Then he was slapped in the face by reality. Fayiz is not a bad guy. They made a mistake.
The government has not produced a single tangible piece of evidence against Fayiz al-Kandari. It’s not like this has never happened before. On 20 November 2008 US District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the USA had no credible evidence to justify the detention of Lakhdar Boumediene and let him go. Fayiz is in the same position. The government has also released another detainee, Abd al Rahim Abdul Rassak. They made a mistake with him as well. He should never have been put in GITMO. There are over 200 more detainees who will probably be released because they didn’t anything wrong.
Why are these atrocities allowed to continue in the name of the United States of America? Just because there is a new president in our country it has not changed things in Guantanamo Bay. The lawyers are being hampered more by the Obama administration. Guards now search and read the detainee/attorney mail. They confiscate things from their cells that the prosecution may use against the detainee. Attorney/client privilege apparently is not part of the “new” justice
Fayiz’ lawyer has asked that people get involved with this case because the main stream media refuse to talk about it. Lt. Col. Wingard did get a chance on MSNBC to say some words about Fayiz’ predicament but this was after months of trying to publicize his case.
The website The Political Carnival has devoted a lot of space about this miscarriage of justice. Even though most of us get our news and information from the internet there are still a large percentage who get their information from the MSM and they are not hearing or seeing this story. Fayiz needs his story told and heeds your help. There is much more information at The Political Carnival than I could ever put into one little diary. After I read through it I was beside myself with anger and anxiety. I felt I have to let as many people know about this problem as I can. That is the reason I wrote this piece and hope that you too will try to let as many people as you can know about this case. Maybe it will do some good.
