cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46890078

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/216477

ICE said the Canadian was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day.


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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (21 children)

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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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s not the same thing, but he was a permanent resident for over thirty years

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    ~~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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Do you know what we do to people we catch spying in the US?

    Yes, we put them in prison.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Someone's never heard of Gitmo Bay 🤣

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    hurr durr none of these were spies. They were only accused of spying

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... and weren't imprisoned in Gitmo

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    was.

    I asked which spies are in gitmo. There aren't any. There hasn't been a policy of regularly putting spies in gitmo.

    We treat spies like criminals and put them in federal prison if found guilty. You act like they all got transferred from the federal system TO gitmo.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Damn that's a wild looking prison

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh look who learned a new word

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