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Alleged Taliban Gets Guantanamo Hearing

2005-03-17

A detainee who allegedly fought for the ousted Taliban regime appeared Wednesday before a U.S. military hearing in Guantanamo Bay to determine whether he still poses a threat or has intelligence value. The 28-year-old was accused of receiving weapons training in Pakistan and fighting against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, said Navy Lt. Terry Green, a spokesman for the Administrative Review Boards. His name was also found on files seized during raids on suspected al-Qaida safehouses in Pakistan, Green said.

I think we got a good one!

Green said the detainee had been in Guantanamo since 2002 but could not say where he was initially captured. His name and nationality were not disclosed. His case was the 60th to go before the review boards, which are meant to determine whether almost 550 prisoners at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba still pose a threat to the United States and its allies or have intelligence value, Green said. Those who do not could be freed. Although the panels began in December, the military did not open them to the media or provide details until this week. It was not immediately possible to determine what the prisoner said at his hearing. No transcript of his testimony was released.

The military has freed 146 prisoners outright, including three who were released to Afghanistan, Maldives and Pakistan last week after U.S. military review tribunals determined they were incorrectly held as enemy combatants. Sixty-five others have been transferred to the control of other governments ~~and are currently thinking that Gitmo wasn't so bad after all~~.

Posted by:Steve White

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