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PISSI suicide bomber was freed briton

jeudi 23 février 2017 à 01:00

One former prisoner in Guantanamo joined PISSI and became a suicide bomber.

The enemies of human rights will use this to argue for imprisoning every suspect forever — an instance of their general strategy of exaggerating small dangers as distractions.

We have no way of counting the number of people that PISSI was able to recruit because of resentment of the Guantanamo prison, but it must have been in the hundreds at least.

Urgent: Investigate admin ties to Russia

jeudi 23 février 2017 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Sessions to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the administration's ties to Russia.

Floods driving homeless people out of tents

jeudi 23 février 2017 à 01:00

Floods in California are driving homeless people out of their tents.

US Export-Import Bank

jeudi 23 février 2017 à 01:00

The US Export-Import Bank financed mines in Africa which run on slave labor and environmental destruction.

It also finances fossil fuel use, so there was a campaign to get rid of it.

Imprisonment without charge

jeudi 23 février 2017 à 01:00

It was right to release Jamal al-Harith from Guantanamo, because he was charged with no crime. The fact that he subsequently joined PISSI can't change that.

17 Britons were prisoners in Guantanamo and released. Here's what happened to them.

One of them joined PISSI. But if he hadn't been imprisoned, maybe he wouldn't have done that.

One of them simply lived peacefully, but the way prison had maimed him provoked his nephew to join al-Qa'ida. We can be pretty sure that, if the US hadn't imprisoned people without charges and tortured them, he would not have become an enemy of the US.

There are surely hundreds more, if not thousands, who were inspired to fight the US by their disgust for Guantanamo.