In Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, he writes about how Jesus returns to earth during the Spanish Inquisition. He is immediately arrested by the Inquisition leaders and their security forces.
This came to mind with the first civilian trial of a former Guantanamo prisoner ending in an embarrassment for military prosecutors and the U.S. Justice Department. Because of this-and with regards of hundreds of other suspected "terrorists" who have been proven to be not guilty, one must ask if Guantanamo is an Inquisition after all? Ahmed Ghailani had been charged with 286 counts, including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and acts of terrorism against the United States. Even though he could still face life in prison for conspiracy to destroy government property, a federal jury cleared him of 285 of the 286 charges.
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