sharx35 wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
"Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B" wrote:

And, as far as 'torture' (waterboarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia,
etc) it has been borne out that we have in fact been correct so far a lot
more than we have been wrong.

I don't think so. ALL the people held in Gunatanamp with Britsih
nationality have no been released IIRC. They were guilty maybe of being in
the wrong
place at the wrong time only.


Just like many criminals--just happened to be where they shouldn't have been
and got caught.

I gather that the USA was paying locals to 'inform' on Al Qaeda. Of course they
had no way of telling if the information was true. So the locals saw this as a
neat way of making money by 'informing' on random non-Afghan nationals. It was a
system bound to be abused.

Graham