Guantanamo data show fruit seller, farmer, millionaire share prison with al-Qaida militants

Ben Fox
Associated Press
Houston Chronicle
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New documents on the Guantanamo detainees suggest the Bush administration has cast a wide net in its war on terror. But the U.S. has often come up empty as troops picked up suspects with descriptions as varied as a Kazakh apple seller and a Pakistani millionaire.
Evidence against the apple seller showed he had been captured by the Taliban and forced to work as a cook.
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These and other details emerging from about 5,000 pages of transcripts released Friday suggest the Bush administration has picked up any number of low-level suspects along with admitted al-Qaida and Taliban members and the rare high-value target, a Pakistani millionaire who twice met Osama bin Laden.
The Pentagon was forced to release the documents by a federal judge in response to an Associated Press lawsuit, but much of the administration's war on terror remains shrouded in secrecy.
The transcripts reveal only unclassified information, for example — the detainees and their representatives are not told what other evidence the military might have against them.