>You apparently did not read the linked article

Really? C'mon man...

The "article" that's a letter written by the detainee?

I read it. In detail.

I'm saying consider a source other than the detainee.

I'm about as skeptical of perverse government incentives as one can get. But that doesn't mean I automatically take the word of the detainee, either... He has his own incentives at play.

He deserves a trial. He didn't deserve to be tortured and shouldn't have been. But his story doesn't add up to me.

>>1)sold by kidnappers

According to the detainee assessment I linked to above:

(Edit: Wikileaks classified Detainee Assessment link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/ISN_0146...)

(---Which again, l don't necessarily trust to be true or in good faith any more than the detainees letter, but it's 11 pages of pretty damning classified details, that paint a different picture than "innocent bystander".--- )

>The Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate (ISID) captured detainee along with his driver, Muhammad Madni, on 10 September 2002 at detainee’s safe house in Karachi. Detainee was held in Pakistani custody and was transferred to US custody at Bagram, AF in May 2004.

Maybe they thought he was someone different, but it looks like he was definitely involved, since:

>He [Madni] also provided information on other safe houses, which led on the following day to the arrest of
11 September 2001 terrorist attack planners Ramzi bin al-Shibh,
Hassan Muhammad Ali Bin Attash, aka (Muhammed Tawfiq), and other al-Qaida members. During the second ISID raid, a group of eight suspected members of al-Qaida resisted arrest resulting in the deaths of two of the cell members. The remaining six were taken prisoner and weapons and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were confiscated.

>>2) he wasn't the 'driver/messenger/accomplice' of anybody interesting, he was a cab driver with a pregnant wife minding his own business

But we don't know that, other than taking him at his word. (Unless you've got something else you're going off of.) The report calls him a combat trained "facilitator" and says he was paid to do many different things, including driving for his superiors, housing militants and smuggling them over the border to Afghanistan:

>Detainee is an admitted al-Qaida facilitator, who had the
full trust and confidence of al-Qaida leadership. Detainee admitted working directly for senior al-Qaida operational planner Khalid Shaykh Muhammad (KSM)...

>In 1994, detainee initially trained for seven months at
a militant camp near Khowst, AF and then went to the Khaldan Training Camp for a two-month training session in tactics. Detainee then attempted to go to Kashmir, PK but was arrested at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, for which he spent 1995 and 1996 in prison.

>Detainee has been forthcoming in the past about his role as a
facilitator and his associations among the highest levels of the al-Qaida organization, which has been corroborated by numerous JTF-GTMO detainees reporting. ... Detainee downplays the fact that he received advanced military training at terrorist training camps and he has become non-cooperative with interrogators since late 2004.

>...Detainee reported meeting with UBL on 6 to 12 occasions...

>In 1999, detainee began working directly for UBL’s chief of operations, Abu Hafs,aka (Muhammad Atif). Detainee would transport al-Qaida fighters for Abu Hafs from Karachi to Quetta, PK, where another driver would take them to Kandahar. Detainee next met senior al-Qaida operational planner KU-10024 who offered detainee a job driving him around in a taxi for 200 Pakistani rupees a day. Detainee stated he felt close to KU-10024, believing they fought for the same cause. In 2000, Abu Hafs ordered detainee to rent a house with two floors, one for detainee’s family and one for his guests, but he was frequently away per KU-10024’s instructions to be vigilant.

Seriously, there's 11 solid pages of this. Maybe it's lies and a cover-up or maybe not, but at least read and consider that there's more to the story than a prisoner's letter to a paper.

If nothing else, read it for insight into the "system" at play.