After the pink goat

Justice is strange word I don't use that often since I don't really believe in it. But in the case it's good. It's justice, for Bush administration. Not complete, of course, that could happen only in impeachment procedure. But it's close enough.
In the article below, you can read that a judge decided to release 17 detainees in Guantanamo for lack of evidences they took part in ANY terror-related plans. The government gave up fighting to prove they are guilty long ago. Now the problem is where to release them, because they are considered criminal in China and would be killed. (something about China that people tend to forget). I still can't remember what exactly the name of those people tell me, when I figure it out, I'll tell you. But in any case, the fun part is that they arrested them in Afghanistan where they were hiding. They released few of them in Albania (???obviously the only country that is weak enough to take them) but they have no place to release the others.

While americans may not like to have them in USA, I think they have a reason to stay. I mean, they found a safe place from China in tortured Afghanistan, then they were took prisoners by USA and held against law and reason for years in a base with notorious history. And now, they want to just dump them somewhere and pretend nothing happened? Does it sound fair?

For me, USA was an aggressor towards them, they changed their life for much worst and took their only safe place. It's obvious they cannot be released on a place where they will be killed because that's equal to death sentence. And USA justice claims they are innocent. Since this was an US mistake, I don't see why any other country should take the responsibility to keep them safe. That's why I applaud the decision of that judge and say a big HAHA to mr. Bush. It was high time to see someone showing him he's not a deity. Because it looks like he kind of forgot it.

P.S. Oh, my, I checked, they lived in Tian Shan, where Bulgars are from. We're cousins! If you check in Wikipedia you'll see they are blond and fair (some of them). That's...Well, the truth will simply come up sooner or later. No one can kill the truth. Russia couldn't (see the post for Tatarstan), China won't.

Judge Orders 17 Detainees at Guantánamo Freed

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to release 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay by the end of the week, the first such ruling in nearly seven years of legal disputes over the administration’s detention policies.

The judge, Ricardo M. Urbina of Federal District Court, ordered that the 17 men be brought to his courtroom on Friday from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where they have been held since 2002. He indicated that he would release the men, members of the restive Uighur Muslim minority in western China, into the care of supporters in the United States, initially in the Washington area.

Saying the men had never fought the United States and were not a security threat, he tersely rejected Bush administration claims that he lacked the power to order the men set free in the United States and government requests that he stay his order to permit an immediate appeal.

The ruling was a sharp setback for the administration, which has waged a long legal battle to defend its policies of detention at the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, arguing a broad executive power in waging war. Federal courts up to the Supreme Court have waded through detention questions and in several major cases the courts have rejected administration contentions.

The government recently conceded that it would no longer try to prove that the Uighurs were enemy combatants, the classification it uses to detain people at Guantánamo, where 255 men are now held. But it has fought efforts by lawyers for the men to have them released into the United States, saying the Uighurs admitted to receiving weapons training in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The White House press secretary, Dana Perino, said the administration was “deeply concerned by, and strongly disagrees with” the decision.

Justice Department lawyers said they were filing an emergency application on Tuesday night for a stay from the federal appeals court in Washington.

Judge Urbina’s decision came in a habeas corpus lawsuit authorized by a landmark Supreme Court ruling in June that gave detainees the right to have federal judges review the reason for their detention. Speaking from the bench in a courtroom crowded with Uighur supporters of the detainees, Judge Urbina suggested that the government was seeking a stay as a tactic to keep the men imprisoned.

The Uighurs have long been at the center of contentious legal cases because they said they were swept into detention in Afghanistan in 2001 by mistake. They said they were in Afghanistan to seek refuge from China, where the Uighurs, Turkic Muslims, often bridle at Han Chinese rule.

The Bush administration has fought the Uighurs in court for years, contending that their encampment in Afghanistan had ties to a Uighur terror group. Last summer, a federal appeals court ridiculed as inadequate the government’s secret evidence for holding one of the men. In the months since, the government has said that it would “serve no useful purpose” to continue to try to prove that any of these 17 men were enemy combatants.

Lawyers for the Uighurs said the men would be persecuted or killed if they were returned to China. The administration said that since transferring five Uighur detainees to Albania in 2006, it had been unable to persuade governments to accept the other 17. Diplomats say many governments fear reprisal by China, which considers Uighur separatist groups terrorists.

The administration insisted during arguments on Tuesday that the courts did not have the power to release the men into the United States.

The Uighurs’ lawyers, Americans who have worked on the cases for years, had come to court prepared to outline a complex plan for support from community and church groups in the Washington area and in Tallahassee, Fla., where some of the men might eventually be resettled.

But Judge Urbina did not call for the testimony, saying he would hold a hearing on that matter on Oct. 16, after the men would already be free. He said he would impose conditions on their release, including appearances before him every six months. Lawyers for the Uighurs were pleased with the ruling. source

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Етикети: bush, guantanamo, uighur