Brody wrote:
dave wrote:
Brody wrote:

beyond bizzare.. by this logic, every Jap and German POW should have
had a US lawyer and his day in a US court, and presumably release on
bond until his court date


Most of the people at Guantanamo were turned-in for bounty or
otherwise the result of something other than capture on the battlefield

source ?

The media and public fascination with who is detained at
Guantanamo and why has been
fueled in large measure by the refusal of the Government, on the grounds
of national security, to
provide much information about the individuals and the charges against
them. The information
available to date has been anecdotal and erratic, drawn largely from
interviews with the few
detainees who have been released or from statements or court filings by
their attorneys in the
pending habeas corpus proceedings that the Government has not declared
“classified.”
This Report is the first effort to provide a more detailed
picture of who the Guantanamo
detainees are, how they ended up there, and the purported bases for
their enemy combatant
designation. The data in this Report is based entirely upon the United
States Government’s own
documents.1 This Report provides a window into the Government’s success
detaining only those
that the President has called “the worst of the worst.”
Among the data revealed by this Report:
1. Fifty-five percent (55%) of the detainees are not
determined to have committed any
hostile acts against the United States or its coalition allies.
Only 8% of the detainees were characterized as al
Qaeda fighters. Of the remaining
2.
detainees, 40% have no definitive connection with al Qaeda at all and
18% are have no definitive
affiliation with either al Qaeda or the Taliban.
The Government has detained numerous persons based on
mere affiliations with a
3.
large number of groups that in fact, are not on the Department of
Homeland Security terrorist
watchlist. Moreover, the nexus between such a detainee and such
organizations varies considerably.
Eight percent are detained because they are deemed “fighters for;” 30%
considered “members of;” a
large majority – 60% -- are detained merely because they are “associated
with” a group or groups the
Government asserts are terrorist organizations. For 2% of the prisoners
their nexus to any terrorist
group is unidentified.
4. Only 5% of the detainees were captured by United
States forces. 86% of the
detainees were arrested by either Pakistan or the Northern Alliance and
turned over to United States
custody.

This 86% of the detainees captured by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance
were handed over to the
United States at a time in which the United States offered large
bounties for capture of suspected
enemies.

* The authors are counsel for two detainees in Guantanamo.

http://law.shu.edu/news/guantanamo_reports.htm

http://law.shu.edu/aaafinal.pdf