Children were not a threat to U.S.
Only one of 14 juvenile prisoners provided information relevant to U.S. security .- classified Pentagon interrogators almost all younger inmates at Guantanamo as zero or low interest
"We are not aware of any reason that the detainee was sent to the Guantanamo facility." "We have evaluated as a child soldier forced the Taliban to join his troops." "It is not a member of al Qaeda or a Taliban leader. Is not a threat to U.S. interests and allies." These are phrases written by the military high command Guantanamo. They refer to some of the 14 minors or those over 65 who have passed through the U.S. military base in Cuba during the past nine years.
This resounding failure affects not only the youngest inmates and the elderly, but they are much more abundant than the rest of the prisoners. This is in addition to mistakes made with one of the most sensitive groups within the prison. The stay of child in a U.S. prison and has opened nearly a decade on the fringes of legality, has sparked protests recurring human rights associations and criminal lawyers over the years. The
Guantanamo papers, which the country has access via Wikileaks allow first assess the level of risk and information value that the military commanders themselves give these inmates. It is difficult to find a more devastating. Because the reading of the personal files of prisoners shows that the U.S. did not think seriously about the guilt or threat of almost 60%. But this percentage among children is even greater: interrogators only attributed a "high" risk, ie considered "probable" that posed a real threat "to four of the 14 children.
More devastating for the U.S. government are even data on children Prisoners are able to provide valuable information for winning the "war on terror" that began under President George W. Bush after the terrorist attacks of 11-S. Because Guantanamo drivers have always justified the need for the prison by the value of the information you thought to get . And among those under 18 there is only one that the authorities of the base attribute a high value for intelligence. It is the Canadian national Omar Ahmed Khader , son of a lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden , the one of the youngest Guantanamo today remains at the military base.
There are five cases in which the document editor recognizes that U.S. intelligence can not extract any information from the person concerned. The others are divided among seven with "low" value, and two "half."
is difficult to quantify the exact number of children and adolescents who have passed through Guantanamo. Because in addition to these 14 prisoners who were under 18 years to enter the prison (four of them, with 15 or less), another ten were about to turn of age or had done. Saudi is the case of Amir Khan, who celebrated his eighteenth birthday two weeks after arriving in Guantánamo, and who is alleged to have been part of the movement Hebzi Islami, the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. According to his record, in late 2002 offered to participate in a job that meant "to kill Americans."
The worst part, for the Afghan
The cast of injustices are Afghans who are bearing the brunt. Only one of the seven had high risk. Among the personal stories that begin each document are those of the 14 year old boy who volunteered to work as a mason and eventually enlisted force by a group of Taliban, which passed into the hands of Americans, or the Afghan working for a warlord doing crafts and when the Americans arrived saw no need to leave the camp where he lived. He was arrested and taken to Guantanamo. The military tend to settle these cases with a recommendation to free the prisoner or move to another country. All children were admitted to prison between 2002 and 2003, and most came out around 2006, although some shipments were delayed until 2009. On average, spent three years in prison. Despite the language
civil servant employed by the drafters of the reports, sometimes hint at some compassion. As in the form Naqib Ullah, an Afghan entered Guantánamo at 14 or 15 years. "It's a child soldier who was forcibly recruited by the Taliban. While some may still have value for our intelligence services, the information available is not as important as the need to get the youth of his current environment and an opportunity to grow out of radical extremism, "said Gen. Geoffrey Miller in a document.
Besides the flagrant injustices appear also other stories in which prisoners are portrayed as true jihadists despite his young age. Modaray Yusef went from selling fruit on the street to fight for several months in the Afghan front alongside the Taliban. From prison, Modaray sent a letter to his family expressing his desire to become a martyr. "Islamist websites also argued in" kill all the Sunni ulema to ally with the Americans and all satanic ayatollahs among the Shia, "according to an undetermined source quoted the secret report.
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