Assassinations in Guantanamo (USA)

NEW 9/11 VICTIM DIES IN U.S. CUSTODY - Adnan Latif, a mentally incapacitated man wrongly swept up in Pakistan in 2001 and shipped to Guantanamo, has died, the Pentagon announced today. Latif was ordered released in 2010 -- because, you know, he was innocent -- but President Obama refused and kept him locked in the Cuban prison, where he had been repeatedly tortured. Latif's death comes after an intensive hunger strike and at least one suicide attempt. Did we mention he was innocent? Or, as the Pentagon put it: "Latif arrived at Guantanamo in January 2002 and was being detained consistent with the law of war...Joint Task Force Guantanamo continues to provide safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detainees." His lawyer, David Remes, remembers Latif, who, dead at 32, spent more than a third of his life in Guantanamo: "Slightly built and gentle, he was a father and husband. He was a talented poet, and was devoutly religious. He never posed a threat to the United States, and he never should have been brought to Guantanamo. The military has not stated a cause of death. However Adnan died, it was Guantanamo that killed him. His death is a reminder of the human cost of the government's Guantanamo detention policy and underscores the urgency of releasing detainees the government does not intend to prosecute."