More than 20 years after the U.S. government began detaining terrorism suspects at the Navy’s Guantanamo Bay, Cuba facility, we are still living with the aftermath of GITMO’s extraordinary status as a place existing beyond the rules of law and war.
Just this week, the U.S. government announced it had repatriated to Saudi Arabia Mohammed al-Qahtani, an alleged al Qaeda operative who was accused of being the “20th hijacker” on 9/11 but missed his flight.
