[dude1394]

The author is pointing out that this is the type of uncorroborated tripe that al-jazeera would pass on.

[quote]
For more than two years now, about 600 men have been kept in American custody in Cuba, and the odds are that some — perhaps most — were merely hapless Afghan foot soldiers or bystanders swept up in the confusion of the American invasion. But it took the Supreme Court to tell the Bush administration they could not be kept there forever without giving them a chance to contest their imprisonment. [Emphasis added.]

First of all, the Times has absolutely no basis in fact — none — for this preposterous supposition[quote]


Newspaper of record my rear.