Taliban Publicly Flogs Woman in Pakistan
I guess this would go along with all those humane, pro-female laws that Afghanistan just passed – like being able to rape women…/major sarcasm!
U.S. Justice Releases Guantanamo Detainee
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo detention center who said he fears for his life after informing against senior al-Qaida leaders.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle issued a one-page judgment ordering the release of Yasin Muhammed Basardh, a 33-year-old from Yemen. The judge didn’t say in the ruling why Basardh should be let go, but she said it was explained during a closed hearing in her courtroom earlier in the day.
Basardh has begged U.S. officials not to send him back to Yemen or any other Muslim country.
“I am cooperative to the point where my cooperation with everyone has led to many people threatening my life,” he said at a 2005 military hearing.
“Osama bin Laden’s people know about me. They will not hesitate to kill me or anyone in my family. If they cannot kill me, they will kill at least one person from my family to get their revenge,” Basardh said. At the time, he said he wanted to join the U.S. Army.
According to charges filed by the military in 2004, Basardh is a member of the Taliban who trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan that Osama bin Laden visited. The government says Basardh fought against the U.S. or its coalition partners, and fled to the Tora Bora region in November 2001, where he stayed in a cave with bin Laden.
He later left Tora Bora for Pakistan and was captured by the Pakistani military, according to the government.
No specifics have been released in regards to the case…therefore, we do not know what country will receive this detainee after his release…
