Chris Anders of the ACLU, reporting on the Guantánamo hearings of Ibrahim al-Qosi and Mohammad Hashim a couple weeks ago, noted that there is death in the air there… the death of Guantánamo itself:
[E]veryone notices that attendance is way down. A couple of military personnel shut off the power in empty tents here in “Camp Justice.” As the only representative of a human rights group this week, my bed is the only one occupied in my six-bed tent. And the media pool is now down to just one reporter. It seems that all that is left to be done is for the new president to pull the plug on the whole operation on January 20.
“But,” explained Suzanne Ito in another post, “we’re not tossing out the orange ribbons just yet. Our work is not done. We need to keep up the momentum on this issue, and show President-elect Obama that he has our support to shut Guantánamo down on Day One. With an executive order, he can close Gitmo and shutter the military commissions system.”
Then CNN reported that a federal judge ordered that 5 prisoners at Guantánamo be released, because they were not “enemy combatants,” or at least the government could not demonstrate that they were.
The smell of death in the air, and this day, it’s a sweet, refreshing aroma.
-TimK
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