Ties to Charities Cited as Terrorism Evidence

U.S. military documents cite links by Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Muslim charities as evidence of terrorist ties, but some of those charities are not on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, reports The Boston Globe.

Some legal experts have raised questions about the government’s policy. “Either a particular group is dangerous, and should be outlawed in the United States, or it is innocuous, and no one should be held at Guantanamo because of an association with it,” says Mark Denbeaux, a law professor at Seton Hall Law School.

Spokesmen for the Defense Department say the military documents do not include classified information and that additional evidence against the prisoners may exist beyond the charity connections.