Is There Truly Hope For The "Forgotten And Faceless"

I previously wrote about these poor, unfortunate souls, especially about how they have become "no land's men". Well, there is at last hope that they may finally be freed from the unjust imprisonment that they suffered throughout the last seven years or so:

Federal judge orders release of Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay

In what the AP calls “a landmark decision,” a federal judge has ordered the release of a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. The detainees, who the Bush administration no longer considers enemy combatants, had been held for almost seven years. NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams reports that the Bush administration doesn’t want the detainees coming to the U.S. because “that sets a legal precedent.” Watch it:

Before the ruling, the Bush administration argued that the judge, Ricardo M. Urbina, did not “have the authority to release the men into the United States and that they should not be sent back to China where they likely would be tortured.”

Of course, the Bush administration is obfuscating yet again on this matter in order to cover its own incompetence - why am I not surprised?

At least, the light of hope is finally shining at the end of the long and dark tunnel of these unfortunate souls whom have been so unjustly treated over the last seven years of so.


(Cross-posted at TWWL)