Joe Nocera has a disturbing article about one of the detainees I spoke about yesterday. Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif has been at Guantanamo since 2002, when he was 20 years old. The government claims he was arrested as he was on his way to an Al Qaeda training camp; he says he wasn't. Eventually, he was set for release. But, the Underwear Bomber ruined that opportunity as Congress decided that anyone who was going to be released to Yemen was as bad as the Underwear Bomber, who had trained in Yemen.
During his stay at Guantanamo, Hentif has been treated like most other prisoners: solitary confinement, torture, forced feeding, violence by his captors.
Is this what America has become in the 21st century?
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