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Old 8th Feb 2012, 22:46
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Whilst the majority of your last post is your opinion based on a single media report to which you are clearly entitled (), the last paragraph is a little hysterical. To compare occasional illegal acts of violence in time of war which end in death to state sponsored genocide is a bit much. Year zero or Srebrenica, this is not.

Does anybody else think there is a lot of conjecture, sensationalism and plain guess work going on here?

We don't know if it was one of the unresponsive men who died as no individual was involved in transporting the detainee through the whole process from pick up to his premature, unfortunate and permanent oxygen/brain interface issue.

It's a newspaper report based on events 9 years ago, joining up a few snippets of 'evidence'. Where are these reports, the raw intelligence?

If you want a random conspiracy theory, he died under torture conducted by Saudis under US military control 3 days after arrival. They buried him and to keep their books straight used the unresponsive fella pulled off the Chinook to cover their tracks.

Or he was renditioned and is still in Guantanamo to this day, again the books are straight, and he's still dressed like a B&Q store man.

Etc etc.

Take your pick, why not? It's a better ending, so could sell more papers.
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