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Andy Worthington
Personal blog · andyworthington.co.ukpoliticshistory
Andy Worthington's personal blog at andyworthington.co.uk covers politics and history. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Andy Worthington's posts on Guantanamo detention and US treatment of prisoners, including a 2009 post on Taliban prisoners in shipping containers. Also cited in discussion of NSA data-collection litigation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> Lot of things mentioned here are not that easy. To legally bring citizens of other countries in American justice system and have them fair trial you need to have respect various treaties - many of which may simply require sending them back to their respective country to be handled by their own governments which usually is not the best thing especially for terrorist suspects. Bureaucratic considerations are of no c…
Comment linking /2011/09/16/ahmed-errachidi-guantanamo-prisoner-590-the-cook-who-became-the-general/
on “Gitmo Is Killing Me”We used shipping containers to kill captured Afghans via asphyxiation in 2001 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/07/13/the-convoy-of-de... from the linked newyorktimes article: Survivors and witnesses told The New York Times and Newsweek in 2002 that over a three-day period, Taliban prisoners were stuffed into closed metal shipping containers and given no food or water; many suffocated while being trucked to the…
Comment linking /2009/07/13/the-convoy-of-death-will-obama-investigate-the-afghan-massacre-of-november-2001/
on “AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94”The end-goal is to get the government to stop. The government is not uncontrollable. Litigation has stopped many government practices, historically. For example, originally the Bush administration tried to hold Yaser Hamdi (a U.S. citizen who had left the U.S. as a child and had been captured in 2001 in Afghanistan) as an enemy combatant. The Bush administration tried to claim that enemy combatants did not have habe…
Comment linking /guantanamo-habeas-results-the-definitive-list
on “19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection”
