A Yemeni man has committed suicide after 7 years of imprisonment without trial at Guantanamo.
He is apparently the 5th prisoner to do so since the prison opened up shop.
The issue of Gitmo gets clouded by political posturing, but it's really easy to understand if you extrapolate a hypothetical from the basic facts.
This man was a Yemeni citizen, a citizen of a country other than the United States, arrested in Afghanistan, after the US invaded that country, and imprisoned in Cuba without being charged, without being tried, without legal counsel. Now he is dead.
OK, so, imagine this: An American citizen is arrested in Yemen and transported to Afghanistan, where they are imprisoned for 7 years. They hang themself.
Can you imagine the moral outrage US politicians would be expressing at this travesty of justice? Do you remember what happened when that jackass got caught littering in Singapore and had to be caned? People were apoplectic that a foreign country would dare violate the pasty white American ass of someone who had broken local laws.
Meanwhile, two US journalists are on trial in North Korea. It might be a show trial, but hey, at least they're even getting a trial.
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