Discuss the judge's order to release five Guantanamo detainees

A federal judge has ordered the release of five terror suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  (A sixth suspect will remain in custody.)

From the Associated Press story:

In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the government's evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unidentified source. Therefore, he said the five could not be held indefinitely as enemy combatants, and should be released immediately.

Share your thoughts on this decision and its implications for other Guantanamo detainees.

Photo:  Randall Mikkelsen/AFP/Getty Images

Comments

[flax]

Good...free up a few spots for W and his cronies

[Disgusted with Gimo]

Buy the Algerians and the Uighurs ranches in Crawford with all the money they're going to get (rightly) suing our butts and make Bush drive past them for the however many years he's got left in his pathetic life.

[don]

Gee, now, thanks to the supreme court, that judges get to play war and call it peace by other means, I'm sure the war on terror will be just as successful as the war on drugs. Perhaps we should consider legalizing terrorism and call it a day?

[Xenu]

Perhaps we can fill those empty jail cells with members of the Bush-Cheney Regime?

[Marka]

I hope Bush Chany serve 7 year in the Gitmo after they get out of Whitehouse. 401k is 60% lost so far and still Bush giving away money through no bid contracts from banks just like no bid contracts in Iraq.

[Dan]

Did anyone think to just ask Obama if he was a native born American citizen? It is probably one of the biggest "opps" within American politics since you have to be a native born U.S. citizen to take the oath of office for the Presidency. It has just been revealed that the Democratic National Committee failed to fully check out Obama's country of origin records. Evidence of citizenship abnormalities has now come to light that Obama carries native Kenyan citizenship. High ranking DNC sources have admitted that
a serious failure occurred when the committee failed to confirm Obama's actual citizenship of origin. It has been confirmed that 23 DNC members have been dispatched to Kenya, Hawaii, and Indonesia to
fully confirm Obama's current citizenship status. In a frantic race against the clock the DNC is now attempting to patch together what everyone
thought they had already done. Copies of birth certificates, voting, arm services and educational records are being gathered as fast as possible as the DNC scrambles to meet the Dec. 1, 2008 Supreme
Court deadline. Nevertheless, in recent weeks, multiple lawsuits have been filed in seven additional states demanding that Barack Obama produce an original vault copy of his birth certificate, to dispel fears that he is
not a natural-born United States citizen. The latest suits have been filed in state and federal courts all over the U.S. and include Hawaii,
Washington, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Connecticut. The suits seek to compel Obama to release his original vault birth certificate. Currently Obama will only divulge a "Live Birth" copy document which is not a vault birth certificate. Obama continues to adamantly refuses to let anyone
see his original vault birth certificate. Pennsylvania Democrat Philip J. Berg, filed a lawsuit demanding Sen. Barack Obama present proof of his American citizenship, he now says that by failing to respond Obama will legally “admit” to the lawsuit’s accusations, including the charge that the Democratic candidate was born in Mombosa, Kenya. On 11/07/08 Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging
Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States. He filed a Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court on October 30, 2008, requesting review of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge Surrick’s Dismissal of Philip J. Berg’s
lawsuit against Barack H. Obama, Jr., the DNC and the other co-Defendants.
Accordingly, the U. S. Supreme Court has set dates in which Barack Obama, the DNC and all co-Defendants are to respond to the Writ, which is on or before December 1, 2008.
http://www.obamacrimes.us/

[David W. Beauchamp]

No one really knows what is going on. How can anyone comment intelligently.

[Kevin]

Enough about Obama being born in Kenya. Why would we even think that? He barely knew his father. His Kenyan father abandoned him and his mother. He was raised mainly by his American mother and grandparents with help for a few years from his Indonesian step-father. If I were Kenyan I would consider it a matter of national shame that one of my own had so misled and ill-treated his wife and son. Kenya cannot boast of Obama (or at least, they should not). Obama accomplished what he did in spite of his Kenyan father, not because of him. Given what we know of his upbringing and family history, accusations of Kenyan birth are just ridiculous.

I voted against Obama, but he won. Broke my heart, but the election was fair, and come January, Obama will be the president of my country. If he does a bad job, I'll have another chance to vote against him in 2012. Representative democracy is one of the greatest accomplishments of our civilization. Accepting the loss of an election is not just good sportsmanship, it's good citizenship.