So Lakhdar Boumediene is going to live in France. Lakhdar's last residence was Cuba, not Havana, but that part of Cuba still occupied by the US, Guantanamo Bay. Lakhdar was picked up with a bunch of other guys in Bosnia and accused of planning to blow up the US embassy in Sarajevo.
He spent seven years in Guantanamo Bay until France agreed to allow him to live there. Lakhdar has been guaranteed medical care in the event he should need it which may well be likely given the torture methods in Guantanamo. Being force fed food the last two years might not have left him in the best of health. He was on hunger strike and some may think that is is own fault but in reality it is an act of heroism and defiance when under such incarceration. Smashing testicles, waterboarding, forcing inmates to listen to loud music 24 hours a day and forcing them to stand in one position for hours, these are some of the benefits the US provides for at hotel Guantanamo.
Lakhdar has "been deemed innocent of all charges relating to the participation in eventual terrorist activities by judicial decisions in several countries including the United Sates." Says French foreign minister, Eric, Chevalier.
I wonder what sort of severance package Lakhdar got.
It makes you seethe when you think Bush and Rumsfeld are free men.
For more on torture at hotel Guantanamo visit:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/15-9
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