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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Guantanamo mistake

Five completely innocent Chinese Uighurs were kept at Gitmo for three and a half years, charged with nothing, cleared.....and still held for another year.

Guantanamo's Innocents: Newly Released Prisoners Struggle to Find a Home

Even after being cleared of any wrongdoing, five innocent men were kept captive at the detention center at Guantanamo. Today, these men who started out in China and ended up in Cuba are now free and in the Eastern European country of Albania, the only country that would take them. They spoke to the ABC News Law & Justice Unit in their first American interview....

...Q: Was there a hardest day, a moment when you'd most lost hope?

A: After we were handed over to American authorities in Kandahar. We thought it was good, Americans uphold people's rights and protect them. When we realized where we were going -- to Guantanamo -- that was the hardest moment.

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