Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainee With Ties to 9/11 Attacks

Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Detainee With Ties to 9/11 Attacks

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WASHINGTON — A suspected Al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantanamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Military prosecutors suspected Slahi of links to other Al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004

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This is an interesting article. In 2004 he was facing death now their doesn't seem to be enough evidence to charge him. I wonder if he isn't as important as the gov wanted him to be. If some one else was found who would make a better example of by exicuting. Or if their was never a case against him in the first place.

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So the highest level villain, a evil terrorist, terrorist of all terrorists, "the man", a "organizer" facing public hanging of sorts gets released?

So does that make him a non-terrorist now? He's, like, a normal human?

That didn't happen during holy inquisition, people are becoming softer....

Here's an interesting snippet:

Plans to try him by military commission were derailed after prosecutors learned that Slahi had been subjected to a "special interrogation plan" involving weeks of physical and mental torment, including a death threat and a threat to bring Slahi's mother to Guantanamo Bay where she could be gang-raped, officials said.

Although the treatment apparently induced Slahi's compliance, the military prosecutor, Marine Lt. Col. V. Stuart Couch, determined that it constituted torture and evidence it produced could not lawfully be used against Mr. Slahi.

Lt. Col. V. Stuart Couch probably won't be promoted in some time .