Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Owings Mills HS Grad pleads Guilty at Guantanamo

Is the president starting to clean out Guantanamo?
Accused Al-Qiada member and Owings Mills high grad Majid Khan, left, the only U.S. resident imprisoned at the American naval base in Cuba, entered guilty pleas to charges of supporting terrorism while living in Pakistan. (Non-paywall link here.)


In 2005, Khan's lawyers had asked the U.S. government to save videotapes of him made while he was being tortured during this three years of detention in a CIA foreign prison, probably at "the Salt Pit" and/or Poland. Within a week of Khan's lawyers' requests the CIA destroyed the tapes.

Related: a House Judiciary Committee meeting on indefinite detentions of Americans and the NDAA is going on right now.