Not everyone who is involved in this matter views it from a political perspective, of course. General Al-Zahrani grieves for his son, but at the end of a lengthy interview he paused and his thoughts turned elsewhere. “The truth is what matters,” he said. “They practiced every form of torture on my son and on many others as well. What was the result? What facts did they find? They found nothing. They learned nothing. They accomplished nothing.”

It’s quite unfashionable these days to go on about Guantanamo detainees, which battalion should be moved where in Marjah is more urgent. Of course the latter is easier to have a strong opinion on, it’s far away, we have little idea what’s really going on and it almost always sounds exciting. Guantanamo stories seldom do. They are just shocking.

There is coverage on it though fortunately. For me it’s hard to judge whether people who try to keep that in the press in the US are seen as leftist-demoralizers or are still heard or how that is a topic that is widely discussed. To ask black/white, what’s more important:

Capturing Siraj Haqqani and his father Jalaluddin or closing Guantanamo and correctly deal with the left inmates and reveal its stories?

Check Scott Horton’s article on the recent court sentencings here.

The full article on the Guantanamo “suicides” reads like a completely made up bad-thriller-conspiracy story. Cheap indeed. But the guy who wrote that is not some wanna-be literate but a respected attorney in this field. Read his full incredible account here. Responses have already started here.