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Afghanistan

Casio Watches an Arresting Offense in Afghanistan: Wikileaks on Guantanamo

Juan Cole 04/25/2011

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Wikileaks has released the Pentagon assessments of nearly 800 suspected al-Qaeda prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay to newspapers such as the Washington Post.

The documents show that some of the prisoners were likely dangerous men, while many others were probably arrested on flimsy evidence or even out of stupidity. Wearing a Casio watch could be a cause for arrest, apparently, because al-Qaeda types used them as timers.

Filed Under: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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