Former Gitmo guards meets with former detainees and apologizes to them

A former Gitmo guard contacted former Gitmo detainess to apologize to them for their treatment.

Notice the former Gitmo guard is now the prisoner of his former detainees. -->
BBC Via Storm Bringer

The prisoners arriving on planes, in goggles and jump suits, from Afghanistan were termed by then US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as the "worst of the worst". But after getting to know some of the English-speaking detainees, Mr Neely started to have doubts all of them were fanatical terrorists.

He recalls how when he and Mr Ahmed chatted through the bars at Guantanamo, they had a surprising amount in common.

"It was no different from me sitting at the bar with a friend of mine talking about women or music," says Mr Neely. "He would say, 'you ever listen to Eminem or Dr Dre' and he threw off a little rap and it was just funny. I thought how could it be somebody is here who's doing the same stuff that I do when I'm back home."

Just because the detainee listened to Eminem or Dr. Dre doesn't mean he isn't a terrorist. Samuel P. Huntington wrote in his Clash of Civilizations that a muslim terrorist could be bopping to American hip hop beats, washing down a Big Mac with Coke while wiring a suicide bomb to blow up Americans.

Mr. Neeley meet with the two former detainees in a BBC studio where he apologized to them for all the 'wrongs'.

The former detainees denied they were fighting for al Qaeda or the taliban but claimed they went to Afghanistan for sight seeing and smoking dope. Who the hell goes to Afghanistan to smoke dope? That's what Amsterdam is for.