Dear all,
Sometimes we wonder if what we do is helping. Is dressing up and street theater going to make a difference? Are we wasting our time in thinking we can change things?
I'm here to say that EVERYTHING we do is helping. I've been standing in orange jumpsuit and hood/chains for a Guantanamo detainee named Adel Hamad, #940, for some time now. After 5 years in GITMO he still had never been charged, never been tried and was going blind from looking thru chain link fence for so long.
He was released from GITMO last Thursday. He is home with his family.
Keep the faith and never stop. The joy Dave and I feel tonight is almost impossible to express.
We will all feel this joy when our troops start coming home to stay.
Peace Lydia

Hi there,
I'm Andy Worthington, author of "The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison." For more on Adel's story, including the dubious circumstances of his capture in Pakistan, the complaints made by a serving US military officer after his kangaroo court tribunal at Guantanamo, and the reasons for the two-year delay in his release after he was cleared by a military review board, see the following article on my website: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=182