User talk:Rrachlin

Greetings!

Welcome to the wikipedia.

Are you the R Racklin who is the subject of the article? I admire the lawyers who have volunteered to work on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees.

I have read close to half of the transcripts from the Guantanamo detainees Combatant Status Review Tribunals and their Administrative Review Board hearings. Some of them are heart-breaking.

Do you happen to know the lawyer for Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari?

That allegation that he was an enemy because he was wearing a Casio F91W watch is so ridiculous. The heart-breaking thing about that is that, from Al Kandari's detailed description of his watch, he clearly wasn't even wearing the Casio F91W at all. I read his transcript, from the Associated Press site about eight, nine months ago. Since I read it online, when I came across "'Casio F91W" I used google image search to see what a Casio F91W looked like. I have owned at least one watch like that. It is just about the cheapest digital watch that has a countdown timer and daily alarm. Then I read on, and read his description of his watch's advanced features. The user picked the nearest major city, and the watch would use this to point to Mecca. It would ring out the call to prayers, based on the nearest city. Well, the only watch like that that Casio makes is the Casio Prayer Watch. It doesn't look anything like the F91W. It took me just a few minutes to determine that Al Kandari didn't own an F91W.

Why wasn't anyone in the American intelligence establishment doing a sanity check on the evidence against the detainees? The USA has limited resources to prevent terrorist attacks. It shouldn't be squandered detaining innocent men, when their innocence can be so easily determined.

Anyhow, if you know Al Kandari's lawyer, could you draw this mistake on the intelligence establishment's part to his attention. Thanks! -- Geo Swan 01:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC)