The Miami Herald, the publication that employs epic Gitmo chronicler Carol Rosenberg, editorializes about indefinite detention and the death of detainee Awal Gul:
For Awal Gul, detention at Guantánamo was not ``indefinite'' but rather a life sentence carried out without benefit of judge and jury. He never knew a moment of freedom from the time he was captured in Afghanistan on Christmas Day, 2001, until the day he died.
Now there are only 47 ``indefinite detainees'' left, which raises a pertinent question:
Is the detention facility at Guantánamo supposed to remain open until every last one of these inmates conveniently drops dead, however many years or decades that may take?
Owned. The sad part is that the answer to this rhetorical question, for a number of the "fifth category" detainees, is probably "yes."
