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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (134384)	5/25/2004 5:29:56 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Habeas corpus is for a very good reason Hawk. As the years roll by, prisoners sit in prison with the USA not recognizing human rights which they used to lecture China about. If he'd been traveling in the US, you might have a case.. But he was traveling in a war zone and there is no writ of habeus corpus in a war zone.. It's too bad he was detained.. But was he maltreated? Was he tortured? Was he harassed? No.. he was detained until US forces were reasonably sure he didn't represent either a threat, or was a participant in any illicit activity.. After all, it's not like we could revoke his passport, as is the case with US suspects under investigation. Hawk

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (134384)	5/25/2004 6:59:13 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

People who are not morons or liars know very well these sweeps just pick up every one in sight. But this board is replete with apologists who are on the continuum between morons and liars, just like the war mongers. usatoday.com "The two elderly men — who appeared to be in their 70s — and a younger man are the first former detainees to speak about their arrest and detainment at Guantanamo Bay. They spoke to The Associated Press at a military hospital in Kabul where they are convalescing, under the watch of Afghan security guards. " . . . The Afghan prisoners, looking frail and tired but in good spirits, said they had not been allowed to contact their families after they were captured by the Americans in Afghanistan. They said they were chained up during frequent interrogations, but that they were not mistreated and were allowed to practice their religion while at the camp.