MSNBC runs a story about
An Afghan boy's in U.S. Custody. We learn: It must be lovely and cosy to be under illegal arrest on Cuba. Education for free, everyone nice. All 13 year old's should be happy to be an "enemy combatant".
Unfortunately, the Red Cross still seems to have no understanding for the great humanitarian effort undertaken at Guantanamo Bay. Always this ugly complaints about violations to the Geneva conventions, the legal limbo's. All just a misunderstanding.
Here's the truth:
"The long-term detention of minors at Guantanamo, where about 650 people suspected of having links to Islamic terrorists are held, has drawn criticism from human rights groups. But Agha, who spoke with a foreign journalist Wednesday in this remote town in the southern province of Helmand, described his experience as closer to a tropical boarding school than a prison."
And now share msnbc's pleasure about the little native's new English abilities:
"Me go to Cuba, speak English now," he said with a proud grin as he sat in the police station in Naw Zad
And when it was finally decided how ridiculous it was to keep a thirteen year old captive, here's what he got:
Meanwhile, back in Camp Iguana, Agha was informed that he would be leaving shortly for home.
"They gave me a party and said I could have anything I wanted to eat, so I asked for Pepsi and chicken kebob," he said. "They also gave me a letter that said if I was ever arrested again, I would be sent to prison and never let out." Then he and the other two boys were put on a plane, again in shackles but this time without being hooded.
See: Some elements of the No Child left Behind Act aren't unfunded. But how much did Pepsi have to pay to become the Official Drink of the Captured Taliban Camp?
Anyway, keep on being disillusioned.