SocraticGadfly: Ginco first Gitmo detainee to file habeas

June 20, 2008

Ginco first Gitmo detainee to file habeas

McClatchy has the story of Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Ginco, who has had the misfortune of having been tortured by the Taliban before being arrested by the U.S. — after first being freed from the Taliban.

Ginco, who was a university student at one time, seems innocent of everything except being the wrong man in the wrong place. That wrong place?

The middle of Afghanistan, with Americans throwing out monopoly money for people to bring in Taliban members. Ginco was surely someone who made somebody else a fast $50 or whatever.

It seems his is about the best case, from a human rights and expose-Bush perspective, that could be the leadoff hitter in the post-Boumediene climate.

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