Salah Al Bloushi went home this week
Who is Salah Al Bloushi? He’s a Bahranian who until October 15th had been held at Guantanamo Bay by us, the United States of America. He was held for nearly five years. He was never charged with anything.
We were all told Salah Al Bloushi was at Gitmo because he was a dangerous terrorist who needed to be kept locked up to keep the world safe. But we let him out after 5 years. Why? Was he actually not dangerous? Then why did we take 5 years of his life? If he’s a terrorist (which I doubt based on what Josh has told me) why would we let him out even after 5 years? There is no explanation for our behavior at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Just like Olberman said the other night, we were wrong locking up the pacifists in Wilson’s time, we were wrong interring the Japanese in Roosevelt’s time, and we’re wrong in how we’re dealing with terrorists today.
My firend Josh is a lawyer who helped Salah Al Bloushi get home, as well as 5 of his countrymen last year. Thanks, Josh, for doing great work standing up to our
misguided government–we really need folks like you right now.
January 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
[...] I’ve written before about my friend Josh who is doing good defending Bahranian’s detained at Guantanamo by our commander-in-chief. His client Jumah al-Dossari has an op-ed in the LA Times that was pulled together from letters he’s sent to his lawyers. [...]