Bush exaggerated intel value of Gitmo detainees
Scotsman [UK]
06/22/04
Detainees at the United States detention centre at Guantànamo Bay have provided little intelligence and their value has been exaggerated by the Bush administration, according to a newspaper investigation published yesterday. ... dozens of high-level military intelligence and law-enforcement officials told the New York Times that only a few of the 595 detainees had information about the workings of al-Qaeda. The number was put at between one and two dozen. ... A top-secret report compiled by the CIA in September 2002 found that most of the accused terrorists at Guantànamo were
low-level recruits or even innocent men picked up in the Afghanistan
war...
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=714472004
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
06/22/04
Detainees at the United States detention centre at Guantànamo Bay have provided little intelligence and their value has been exaggerated by the Bush administration, according to a newspaper investigation published yesterday. ... dozens of high-level military intelligence and law-enforcement officials told the New York Times that only a few of the 595 detainees had information about the workings of al-Qaeda. The number was put at between one and two dozen. ... A top-secret report compiled by the CIA in September 2002 found that most of the accused terrorists at Guantànamo were
low-level recruits or even innocent men picked up in the Afghanistan
war...
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=714472004
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 22. Jun, 18:01
