Posted by Richard Dewsbery on 03/13/06 13:51

"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> You don't believe their version of events? Strange how their captors, who
> know it more clearly, do believe them -or at least believe it enough to
> release them -which would have to be pretty certain to my mind to be
> released from Guantanamo IMO.

I think what got them released was the ongoing embarrasment to our Tone,
plus the fact that there was chuff all in the way of any evidence that they
were ever part of Al-Q. Which is what Guantanamo is supposed to be all
about - the ongoing incarceration of Al-Q's toughest fighters.

Do I think that they were Al-Q (or any other extremist organisation)? Heck
no. They are clearly far too clueless for that. Do I think - on balance -
that they were innocent tourists, caught up in a misadventure? Nope. My
take on it is that they were up for fighting as part of some sot of "Islamic
cause", probably right up to the point where they realised what that
actually entails.

> I can't say one way or the other since I haven't seen the film yet (plan
to
> at 9pm tonight, More4), but I have heard some discussions on the events
> themselves on the radio a few times.
> It seems to me that the lads come out looking quite stupid each time, but
> definitely not 'fighters'.

Indeed. Although the only side presented in the film is their side - and
for the forst half of the film, I didn't believe a bit of it.

It did provide me with a degree of entertainment, though.

Richard

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