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Another prisoner dies in Gitmo without having ever been charged with crime

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201291872137626701.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=NewSocialFlow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount

Latif fought his own long legal battle through the civilian court system, taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to prove his innocence and win his release. Finally after years of legal challenges in 2010 an order for Latif's immediate release was given by US District Judge Henry Kennedy, who called the allegations against him "unconvincing" and in a 32-page order ruled that the government had failed to provide evidence that Latif had been part of al-Qaeda or any other militant group and ordering it to "take all necessary and appropriate diplomatic steps to facilitate Latif's release forthwith".

Despite this, the Department of Justice successfully appealed the judges' decision, and in a 2-1 ruling that Latif's release order was rescinded; effectively on the grounds that the allegations against him must be taken as accurate if they are claimed to be so by the government. The dissenting opinion lambasted the ruling as rigging "the game in the governments favour", with the ultimate result being to once more snatch away the prospect of freedom from Adnan Latif. Latif had placed his faith in the fairness and impartiality of the US legal system and it failed him utterly, inventing new grounds to keep him incarcerated and in the words of the dissenting judge, "moving the goalposts" in order to ensure that no matter what evidence existed regarding his innocence he would remain behind bars.

My blood is boiling while reading this. Americans are digging their own grave because the only thing that doesn't remain constant is time. A time will come when these super carriers, cruise missiles, marines and drones won't be able to save USA and that is when payback will come.
These people who are doing this may not face justice but their children or grand children will face music.
No country or race has ever dominated the world all the time. History proves this so when USA time will come, expect a BIG payback!
 
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