Although I've heard many times that certain of the Gitmo prisoners are of greater "concern",
I don't think I've seen before who they are and what they are accused of doing.
Now, this business of the Taliban opening an "office" in Quatar exposes some of it,
made possible by the Wikileaks data exposed by Pfc. Bradley Manning.
NY Times
CHARLIE SAVAGE
June 20, 2013
Negotiations With Taliban Could Hinge on Detainees
Quote:
These five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could be the key
to whether the negotiations the United States has long sought
with the Taliban are a success, or even take place.
A Taliban spokesman in Qatar said Thursday that exchanging them for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl,
an American prisoner of war who has been held by militants since 2009,
would be a way to “build bridges of confidence” to start broader peace talks.
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The five Taliban members are considered to be among the most senior
militants at Guantánamo and would otherwise be among the last in line to leave.
<snip>
The details of what the government believes about what the five
former Taliban leaders have done were made public in classified military files
given to WikiLeaks by Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is now being court-martialed
and faces a possible life sentence if convicted of the most serious charges against him.
Because the five men have never been given a trial, the quality of the evidence
and the credibility of the claims against them in the files
— some of which they deny — have not been tested.
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The article goes on to describe each man and the "charges" against him.