Ali Mohammed Nasser Mohammed, is NOT released from maximum security detention at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, after more than four years of pre-trial confinement, although weeks previous Mohammed had been determined not to be involved with international terrorism.  Saudi Arabia will not accept him, although he was born there; Yemen will not accept him, although he was issued a Yemeni passport.

       Postscript: Twelve months later Mohammed waits was still confined at the prison’s maximum-security facility, in almost total isolation.  And at least six other Yemeni nationals, were in similar predicaments.

       [added 2/17/2024]

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Chandler, (Federal enclave of) Arizona statute enforcement officers (acting under-color-of-law) arrest Shannon Wilcutt on three felony counts: Driving (a legal term for “traveling” while transporting goods, services or persons in commerce) Under the Influence of a Blood-alcohol Content of above 0.08%, DUI with a child under 15, and possession of a prescription drug (which was prescribed to her that morning by her dentist).  Wilcutt had dental surgery that morning, and had been cleared by her dentist to operate an automobile.  Despite the fact that Wilcutt blew a 0.02%—one-fourth the threshold for DUI—on a breathalyzer machine, she was arrested anyway.  Wilcutt is slightly overweight and suffers from a herniated disc, which is why she had trouble with the field sobriety test.  The stress caused her to hyperventilate, which she tried to compensate by taking one shot off her inhaler; inhalers are known to induce artificially higher readings on BAC breathalyzer tests.

       Postscript: Two years and 12,000 “dollars” (which had to be borrowed from friends and family) Wilcutt was exonerated.

       [added 2/17/2024] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.