on grounds he might return to the battlefield, according to an article in the April 14th issue of The New Yorker

Brig. General Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the Pentagon’s Office of Military Commissions, as saying, “What’s unusual about what we’re doing is that we’re having the commissions before the end of the war. The Nuremberg trials (of accused Nazi war criminals) were after World War Two, so there was no possibility of the defendants going back to the battlefield.”

Rumsfeld as “the worst of a very bad lot”

have already been released

This raises the suspicion they were innocent victims of dragnet arrests or sold to the U.S. by Afghan bounty hunters to enlarge the picture of thousands of Islamist

“even those Guantanamo detainees who are acquitted of the charges against them are analogous to Nazi war criminals.”

hundreds of Guantanamo prisoners

Only one prisoner

has been actually brought to trial.