Two Pakistanis leave Guantanamo after 20 years without charges

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Officials from the United States have returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country after holding them for 20 years without charges at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

Abdul, 55, and Mohammed Rabbani, 53, were the latest inmates to be released from US custody as the US moves towards emptying and shutting down the prison.
The George W Bush administration set it up at a naval base in Cuba for suspects rounded up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.

The two brothers were originally transferred to US custody after Pakistani officials arrested them in their home city of Karachi in 2002. US officials accused the two of helping al-Qaeda members with housing and other lower-level logistical support.
 
There's your next two terrorist.

If you locked me up for 20yrs on no or false charges be damn sure I'm gonna be planning a grand revenge.
I just get the sense that there is less appetite for such revenge now. At least in Pakistan, comparatively speaking. But, maybe I am being naive.
 
I just get the sense that there is less appetite for such revenge now. At least in Pakistan, comparatively speaking. But, maybe I am being naive.

In the case they do intent to do something along those lines then the US will take the position that they were right all along and so will their supporters take the position, "we told you so". I won’t be surprised to see the US place the onus on Pakistan. Guantanamo has never been a US success story.
 
Let's not kid ourselves here, the US isn't as high and mighty as they tend to make themselves look.

Like everyone else, they are a bunch of sneaky, filthy bastards.
Waits for Cosmik to enter the thread and point to another thread :ROFL:
 
theres a movie about guantanamo based on real events i saw not too long ago. aparently only a handful of the 400+ there have been charged. numbers might be off but the ratio is something like that

preaching rights to the world but do this... clowns
 
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