How come he is not released after all they know now? Isn't there anything someone can do? I feel kind of helpless reading these things.
Also there’s some chance these people may harbor a slight dislike towards the land of the free.
Edit: You would think that citizens of the United States would know better than most that oppression by distant governments causes revolts, not obedience.
I'm willing to bet that's the whole point. This way some countries can keep up the BS "war on terror". They create and maintain a certain status quo and then "fight" against it. This way trillions of dollars get siphoned (from their own citizens!) into certain people's pockets (some even enemies of their own citizens!), and they maintain influence over the Middle East.
> citizens of the United States would know better
The citizens of the US, like most of the world, has Facebook to keep them entertained, and student loans and more immediate problems to distract them from things that have no obvious direct impact on them. When they found out every aspect of their lives is being spied on and investigated even by their own was there a massive revolt? No, everyone everywhere took it sitting down in a sign that this can continue and even escalate. They'll even justify torture by saying "well they probably are terrorists otherwise they wouldn't get this treatment". Land of the free to do as you're told.
https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/001/582/923/...
So, for the sake of the national security of the committer of these crimes, we will keep them indefinitely, hoping the problem will one day go away or we get a President who will make it all legal.
Seriously.
This is the argument.
EDIT: downvote all you want, but America has a serious human rights issue here. It is detaining INNOCENT people with no due process, indefinitely - for DECADES now. It is time for the American people to demand the closure of Guantanamo, and for an investigation into the CIA's black torture sites, of which there are far, far too many around the world, secretly tucked out of the view of the American public. If you are okay with this, you're the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ahmad_Ghulam_Rabbani
The defacto argument is "If he's in Guantanamo, he must be bad." But the courts don't use that argument for the determination of whether someone should be released or not.
Similar pressures apply to Pakistan and to other countries who might feel even less responsibility to free him.
In that part of the world, citizenship and identity can be a messy subject. None of those countries is ethnically or linguistically homogeneous, not all of them can reliably track all citizens if they lost their papers.
And I can imagine he wouldn't be a "gift" for the Pakistani government itself, considering political implications.
No, he doesn't.