KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait, March 3, 2007
Former Gitmo Prisoners Acquited In Kuwait
Two Men Had Been Detained At Guantanamo For 5 Years, Cleared Of Any Links To Al Qaeda
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In this file image from 2005, an unidentified detainee is escorted by two military guards at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. (AP)
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Interactive Gitmo Tribunals Detainees on trial, photos and a history of the naval base.
Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah Kamel al-Kundari denied any terror connections at the start of their trial. Their lawyers argued there was no evidence against them and the case was "political." Defense attorneys said the accused were in Afghanistan for charity work — not to fight.
Details of the ruling, which was announced by a court clerk, were not immediately available. The two men were not in court Saturday, but one of their lawyers, Thikra al-Majdali, said she expected them to be released from custody by tomorrow.
The prosecution can appeal the ruling, but it was not clear Saturday if it would do so.
Amin, 41, and al-Kundari, 32, were released from the U.S. detention camp in September after spending nearly five years there. They were detained by authorities for questioning upon their return to Kuwait.
The prosecution claimed the pair had harmed Kuwait's political image by becoming members of Osama bin Laden's terror network and joining the ranks of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime that hosted al Qaeda and fought U.S. forces.
Kuwait, a small oil-rich state, has been a major ally of Washington since the U.S.-led 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation under Saddam Hussein.
Six other Kuwaitis formerly held in Guantanamo have been acquitted here of terror charges. Another four are still imprisoned there.
"We call on the United States to either give our four sons a fair trial in America or any other place in the world, or to hand them to Kuwait so that they can be ... given their legal right to defend themselves," said Khaled al-Odah, who heads a private group that lobbies for the release of the Kuwaiti prisoners — including his son — from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
The U.S. military did not charge Amin or al-Kundari with any crimes. According to military documents and David Cynamon, their attorney in Guantanamo, the two had ties to charities which were linked to terror groups and their names had been found on the hard drive of a computer seized from a suspected al Qaeda member.
Scores of young Kuwaitis have fought alongside Muslim militants in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya and Iraq.
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See all 37 CommentsPosted by inventagod at 09:09 AM : Mar 05, 2007
I disagree, resistance is still possible, indeed required and our own Declaration of Independence demands that we revolt against our government when it no longer serves the people. This government no longer serves the people and it needs to be stopped.
These are the 'terrorists' that our propaganda minister Ashcroft was using to instill terror warnings into the hearts of the American public during the cabal's rise to power in the USA. Now that the fascist Republicons have installed the Patriot Act, and the Military Commissions Act, their duties are complete. The Cheny/Rove-style 9/11 atrocity worked to install the New World Order as law in America. Resistance is futile...
and these fascist nazi Islamic muslim collaborators
"When they came to arrest the Jews, I did not say any thing. I am not a Jew.
When they came to arrest the communists, I did not say anything. I am not a communist.
When they came to arrest the socialists, I did not say anything. I am not a socialist.
When they cam to arrest the homosexuals, gypsies, mentally retarded, etc. I did not say anything, I am none of the above.
When they came to arrest me, there was no one to speak for me."
http://www.stopthekilling.net/stkdemo061117.htm
The following text is a fatwa, or declaration of war, by Osama bin Laden first published in Al Quds Al Arabi, a London-based newspaper, in August, 1996. The fatwa is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
Text of Fatwah Urging Jihad Against Americans
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
Osama bin Laden's Declaration of War
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_Declaration_of_War
May 26, 1998,
"By God's grace," bin Laden says on the tape, "we have formed with many other Islamic groups and organizations in the Islamic world a front called the International Islamic Front to do jihad against the crusaders and Jews."
"And by God's grace," he says at another point in the tape, "the men ... are going to have a successful result in killing Americans and getting rid of them."
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/08/19/terror.tape.main/
islam is intent on killing or enslaving all nonmuslims......
The most notable characteristic of a fascist country is the separation and persecution or denial of equality to a specific segment of the population based upon superficial qualities or belief systems.
Simply stated, a fascist government always has one class of citizens that is considered superior (good) to another (bad) based upon race, creed or origin. It is possible to be both a republic and a fascist state. The preferred class lives in a republic while the oppressed class lives in a fascist state.
http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/Structure3.htm
Posted by j-whitman at 05:45 PM : Mar 03, 2007
Might as well forget trying to talk to him. He's a close minded fanatic. If he was a follower of Jim Jones instead of Bush he'd be one of the ones standing at the trough force feeding the poison koolaid to the kids and babies. He be like Joesph Goebbels, giving his children cyanide so the wouldn't have to live in a world without Der Fuhrer. Like many followers of Bush and Cheney his fanaticism has reached the point of incurable mental illness.
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hahahaha people paying to listen to a proven, convicted, impeached, disbarred liar%u2026lol
For Clinton, New Wealth In Speeches
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022202189.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022100993_pf.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17263999/
--------- SO DID PRESCOT BUSH ---------
HE LOST 3 BUSINESSES EXPIDITING SHIPMENTS TO HITLER WHILE DELAYING SHIPMENTS TO OUR TROOPS
here's another one for the Walking Liar --
-- WASHINGTON - President Bush's proposed federal budget would probably not produce its advertised surplus of $61 billion in five years, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
Instead, Bush's February budget plan would produce a $9 billion deficit by 2012 if it were to be enacted, CBO maintained.
This same Grand Mufti was the maternal uncle of Yassir Arafat! The Mufti's war continues today worldwide.
http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138459&tid=apiraq&sid=37138459&mid=1148296
I'm none of those definatly not any of them& you've never heard me say any of it is right, have you ???
why are you pro slavery of non muslims, pro apartheid treatment of non muslims, why are you pro genocide of non muslims,
don%u2019t you just love these stupid silly little fascist nazi Islamic muslims pretending to be liberal Americans%u2026%u2026 and begging for the usa to leave iraq%u2026..lol%u2026.. they must be really getting their arses kicked%u2026. Hahahahahahaha
and these fascist nazi Islamic muslim collaborators
END PISSLAM APARTHEID NOW!!!
"Entrance into Muslim territory by infidels of foreign lands under the pact guaranteeing protection to the tolerated peoples is permitted only for the time necessary to settle their business affairs.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1772-jewsinislam.html
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