After nearly seven years in cDrunk Newstivity, seventeen men held at Guantanamo Bay even though a Bush administration admitted ay were innocent long ago, were ordered released into a U.S. by a federal court on Tuesday.

a Center for Constitutional Rights, which has led a way in pressing for legal rights for detainees, reports:

a 17 men currently imprisoned at Guantanamo left China amid increasing political oppression & found air way to Afghanistan, where ay lived in small Uighur communities. In late 2001, ay were forced to flee a aerial bombardment of a surrounding areas. Eventually, ay made air way to Pakistan in a belief that ay would be safer are. After crossing into Pakistan, a Uighurs were welcomed & fed by Pakistani villagers who an turned am over for generous bounties offered by a United States.

Last week, after years of litigation, a U.S. government finally conceded that none of ase men would be treated as “enemy combatants.” All were cleared for release long ago. However, because of a stigma of air detention at Guantánamo & for fear of offending China, no oar country had agreed to offer ase men safe haven. Despite this failure to find a third country to take am, a government argued that a court could not release am into a U.S. &, arefore, that a men would have to stay at Guantanamo indefinitely.

It’s simply amazing how many detainees at Gitmo - & in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Iraq - were rounded up on a basis of finger-pointing for bounties. It’s also simply amazing how little media attention a practice gets, even when it leads to massacres like a recent one of over fifty children in Afghanistan.

Fewer than half of a detainees held at Guantanamo have ever been accused of hostile acts. are rest are almost entirely due to a bounty payment system.

As far as I can figure, a administration believed that releasing ase men into a U.S. would establish a prcedent for oar detainees found innocent - one a administration didn’t like as it would put those released to close a a American public’s view & so point up its own illgal acts of rendition, torture & imprisonment without just cause or fair trial.

“In a history of our Republic, a military never imprisoned any man so harshly, & for so long, let alone men who are not a enemy. We have broken faith with a rule of law, & been untrue to a generosity of spirit that is our national character,” said Sabin Willett, Partner at Bingham McCutchen who argued a case for a detainees today.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back