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    Iran has not confirmed that they have him in detention and this was a spy. They literally caught a US spy. Do you know what we do to people we catch spying in the US?

    This is quite literally not the same thing. The US has accidentally killed a Canadian tourist. If a part of Iran’s government killed a US citizen we’d use that to launch War today.

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        ~~That’s an interesting part of the story but in this case this Canadian tourist hadn’t live in the country at all. I feel like the speed at which he entered the US and then died indicates a problem with us custody and handling.

        Like I feel like it’s more egregious if you lived in the country for 30 years and then you know were prosecuted as a spy but to just die from being detained is total bullshit~~

        Misread something not valid.

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          What case are you talking about? The article in this post is about a Canadian permanent resident of the US.

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            Sorry I read something else and got confused I’ll go correct the information later.

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        Ah yes we should just swallow everything any NATO country tells us as an objective fact.

        Understood.

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            Ahmed al Halabi

            This guy was actually acquitted of the charges but was still horribly abused inside the prison: Captain James Yee

            Mohammed Hashim

            Omar Ahmed Khadr

            I mean these are just a few. This wasn’t even hard to look up. Did you not expect that there would be actual spies in one of the US terrorist torture camps?

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              zero for four, what else ya got?

              Ahmed al Halabi

              Accused of spying on gitmo. Was imprisoned in Florida, IIRC

              Captain James Yee

              Also accused of spying on gitmo. Imprisoned in South Carolina for a time.

              Mohammed Hashim

              Charged, imprisoned, and released within a year.

              Omar Ahmed Khadr

              not spy. Either terrorist or irregular fighter, take your pick.

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                    Ugh.

                    • Omar Khadr: Pled guilty to spying in Canada in 2010 was held in gitmo Bay before being transferred to Canada

                    Seriously I don’t know why I’m I’m even dignifying this with a response because we both know that they hold people there that they accuse of being terrorist or Spies of terrorists without any due process and so we don’t know their names typically and we don’t know why they’re in there other than what the US government will tell us which isn’t much.

                    We also have multiple officials from that time admitting that the president and most the administration from that time knew that most of the people put in gitmo Bay were innocent And kept there because it was politically expedient. And that’s just according to Wikipedia.

                    Still it’s not a far stretch to imagine that United States has imprisoned foreign spies in places like gitmo Bay without informing the public.