Comments on: Sami al-Hajj: reporting on life in Gitmo

By: Amanda Elend

Amanda Elend — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:48:50 +0000

Hi,

I’m working over at MobLogic, and we have a show up today about Sami al-Haj, an Al Jazeera journalist who’s been in Guantanamo for five years without being charged. Our host, Lindsay Campbell went out on the streets to ask about the prisoner, Al Jazeera’s possible ties to Al Qaeda, and the lack of due process at Guantanamo. (http://www.moblogic.tv/video/2008/03/21/i-say-al-jazeera-you-say-al-qaeda/)

Come check it out if you’re interested. We also have al-Haj’s story up on our blog post today. (http://www.moblogic.tv/blog/2008/03/21/prisoner-345/)

We really think this is a story that hasn’t been told in American media, and we want to hear your opinion on it.

Thanks so much for your time,
Amanda Elend
moblogic.tv

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:06:04 +0000

The majority of “The Network” members are very crafty and have had few legal problems. They belong to underground organizations which are on no governments radar. I’m all for the legal aspects of trying their cases; if they are found guilty they should be executed.

As for their conditions - the caves they were plucked from weren’t The Marriott.

There are 3000 dead Americans as a result of 9/11. This is why we fight (not Iraq, they deserve Saddam).

Torture does not work. The threat of governments prosecuting and executing murderers and actually following through on it has.

Functioning governments know that terrorists are like rabid dogs, they bite and spread disease wherever they go. The freedom they try to hide behind is something a facist would deny if given the opportunity. The next US president needs to embark on a completely different path. Stable governments everywhere will assist, society will prevail (freedom and democracy for all is not my wish, its an individuals responsibility to effect change).

If this reporter was in the wrong place at the wrong time, prove it and cut him loose with a handshake and a sorry. If not, show the world why, execute him, dump him in the ocean.

By: sam133

sam133 — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:41:35 +0000

would it really make any difference of gitmo closes or not, cause there are plenty of other prisons around the world and sadly most of them are in the arab countries! it is those governing these countries who are allowing the kidnapping and the torture of innocent people to happen otherwise who’s stopping them, the US are getting away with murder and no-one is stopping them, if these fellow muslim men and women as well as children, can’t have their own leader to help and to support their own nationals, then do they really expect the mercy and compassion by any other? well maybe they should most lawyers and legal representatives are non muslims defending these detainees if they can reach them, afford, or if they are allowed to have a legal fdefence reprenting them.

By: PROUD TO BE AMERICAN

PROUD TO BE AMERICAN — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:52:14 +0000

You cant always beleive what you read, and GITMO prisoners are not in cages im sure. Im sure its a cell, not an animal cage, and they should be their until they are proven not to be dangerous. I dont want them out until I know
they are not terrorist. Terrorist lie, thats what they do, lie and tell more lies to terrorize americans. I dont feel sorry for any of them, not one. Im a true american and want freedom for US americans. Our military is doing a great job in keeoing american free. The terrorist dont get tortured like they say! Torture is beheading like they do to our soldiers! Get a reality check and see how may of them get beheaded! ZERO! I beleive in the US and dont beleive propaganda from a person who CLAIMS they are innocent. Time will tell and terrorist will NOT prevail. GOD BLESS THE USA!

By: europeanTribune

europeanTribune — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:10:52 +0000

“USSolder said,
Of the 300+ prisoners released approximatly 150 have been recaptured or killed in combat with UN troops again within months of their release. So whats the answer here? ”

STOP KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE, DIRTY DOGS. what you are doing now with these people is shame for US, UN and whole humanity. you are exatcly the same murders like those from 11.09.2001. gitmo is 100% illegal, nothing to talk about

By: Rea Lity

Rea Lity — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:23:30 +0000

These so called wonderful humans who are being held at GITMO are the same ones that want to kill all Westerners, fly planes into buildings, kill their own people, kill aid workers, kill non-combatant women and children, and basically kill anything else they can get their hands on including themselves. I feel much better knowing they are in GITMO than at my at front door. They should be culled from the herd as they are destructive to all humans.

By: AKNative

AKNative — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:48:36 +0000

As an American, Alaska Native, Veteran, and defender of The Constitution of the United States, I am ashamed of our actions at Gitmo. To make the military the world police is a job they should not be forced to do. If you are from another part of the world and read this, then you should know that most Americans are not aware of the conditions, are too busy with their own lives to care, and that many do not agree with the actions of our current Administration.
Most Americans are fed up with neo fascist, Christian organizations taking over our government and starting trouble where none should be. Our unwavering support of Israel, despite their own abuses as an apartheid style of government, is a travesty, America is the master, not the other way around. Israel should do our bidding or lose that 4+billion in aid we send them every year.
Our inability to promote stability in the Middle East by supporting regimes that subjugate their citizens with violence and secret police is bluntly making America look bad.
We need to be focused on capturing binLaden and making him and his henchmen pay for their attack on our great country and not making others suffer for it.
Thanks for letting me rant a bit, the short of it is that this prison is illegal by all standards of American Law and should be closed.

By: sheikh Al-Hajji Yusef

sheikh Al-Hajji Yusef — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:09:42 +0000

Peace, Shalom,As salaamu alaikum, what the American people fail to realize is that our politicians are all people that they are looking to shine in this world and so they shall have what they strive for this world,so they do not care about the muslims that the president has incarcerated in Guantanamo, he has decieved the American people, he does not want any good for the world and its people he is just a tool of shaitan doing his work , proving to Allah that man is not worthy of his favors, so we know who you are , just a tool of the great deceiver one of shaitan flunkies. but the hereafter is much better if they only knew, to Sami El Hajj he is one of our heroes may Allah protect him and grant him paradise, and inshallah we hope and pray to see you soon with your family and keep up the faith that there are people muslims, christians and jews who are trying to get you out of that horrible place

By: Barry Monette

Barry Monette — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:51:13 +0000

For most of the history of this planet life developed and evolved in concert with nature. Sometime between 250,000 years ago and 6,500 years ago, mankind developed an awareness of nature and found the means to step outside it. We “ate from the tree of knowledge” and were “banished from the garden”. For many people this cosmic transformation in the evolution of man is considered the actual birth of man - the moment of transformation created the first Adam and Eve. We “discovered” God, and this discovery became and remains the single most transformational event in all of history - allowing us progess and civilization, but also good and evil.

Whatever our religion or even agnosticism, we all share in this knowledge. We have all “eaten from the fruit”. We share the same struggles. We experience the same joys.

All of mankind needs to come together and understand our differences - not point fingers. We are different because of our circumstance - but also because man can be evil, twisting the understanding of life and then propagating this on others for temporal advantage.

The reality of Gitmo is wrong. It is never right to take the wrong path.

As a personal view, as a westerner raise as a Christian I see many aspects of fundamental Islam as being twisted from the path by the interpretations of men - but that Islam recognizes the inescapable unity of religion and state, a notion lost in current day secularism. The Islamic world takes this unity for granted.

If the unity of church and state were perceived though eyes that include 21 century science, with the world as a global village of brothers and sisters who have the right and choice to find their own paths to “salvation” according to their own circumstance, they could end their struggles against the impositions of the west. Then we must be true charitable to each other. This must happen first. Then terror would find no place. And then the evil that remains must and would be crushed by strong action such as at Gitmo, But not until then, not until we are right with the world.

What we are doing now, including Gitmo has no focus or goal, and hence no purpose.

By: sad us patriot

sad us patriot — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:12:54 +0000

Hey, been there: The treatment of convicted US criminals is an entirely separate issue. The point here is that the Guantanamo prisoners have been detained for years without charges. This makes a mockery of due process, which is one of the central features of the political system we are supposedly exporting in this disastrous war.

If that’s too theoretical, just go back to water-boarding. You’re probably good at it.

God help us all.