Habib Released

The United States has recently announced its release of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamoud Habib, because they cannot create a case against him. Yet he has been imprisoned for the past 3 years, probably tortured, and now will be watched and held under virtual house arrest for the rest of his life? If he's innocent, they can't do that! If they released him, they are admitting he's innocent, aren't they? Innocent until proven guilty, right? Well, then why the hell did they detain him? According to The Age newspaper, he was captured by Pakistan... which, in case nobody noticed, is a military dictatorship. He was apparently looking to move his family back to Pakistan.

They consider him an "enemy combatant". How the heck did they decide that when he was captured in Pakistan? There's no war in Pakistan. probably looking suspiciously at all the "For Sale" signs, I suppose.

And I'm not only complaining that the US Government is capturing and detaining innocent people, then depriving them of their basic human rights. The Australian government did nothing at all to help Habib... they didn't complain, they didn't investigate allegations of torture, they didn't do anything. Makes me feel real safe to be carrying an Australian passport, you know?