We are only into February, and already it is obvious that my client in Guantánamo can throw out his calendar for 2013. No need to go through the exercise of crossing off each passing day, week, and month, hoping that tomorrow might be the day he is finally released. No, forget about 2013, I will tell him. This isn’t your year.
I represent Ali Hussein Al Shaaban, a 30-year-old Syrian national who has spent the last decade in the US prison camp at Guantánamo. This, despite the fact that Ali is one of 86 detainees cleared for transfer since 2009 as a result of a unanimous decision made by the US national security apparatus.
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I am sure he would have been better off if he were killed in a drone strike.
It is a black mark on our Nation's history that not only have we detained people without charges we then forbid them to be released once they have been cleared. And this in the land of the free? I am sorry Ali Hussein Al Shaaban. I thought our country was better than this.
I'll pay for his plane fare back to Syria.
This is a disgrace, absolutely shameful and terrifying, that we as a country are doing such things. Obama is a liar and a hypocrite. He has zero regard for the rule of law. HE is the one who should be in prison.