{"id":172,"date":"2010-04-10T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-04-10T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:48:32","slug":"bush-knew-gitmo-prisoners-were-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/04\/10\/172\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bush knew Gitmo prisoners were innocent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"guantanamo-bay\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/guantanamo-bay.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"206\" \/>LONDON: Former US president George W Bush and his top aides were accused on Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the \u2018war on terror\u2019.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The allegations were made in a document by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, once chief of staff to Bush\u2019s first secretary of state, Colin Powell, in a lawsuit filed by a former Guantanamo inmate and published by The Times in London.<br \/>Wilkerson alleged Bush\u2019s vice president, Dick Cheney, and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld knew that most detainees held at the US detention camp in 2002 were innocent but believed it was \u201cpolitically impossible to release them\u201d. They were also keen to avoid revealing the \u201cincredibly confused\u201d detention operation, Wilkerson said, claiming prisoners were often rounded up by Afghan and Pakistani forces in return for cash, with little or no evidence as to why. He alleged Cheney \u201chad absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantanamo detainees were innocent&#8230; If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The News<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Former US president George W Bush and his top aides were accused on Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the \u2018war on terror\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Bush knew Gitmo prisoners were innocent\u2019 - 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