Retired Judge: Guantanamo Like Serbian War Camps

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"I was struck by the similarity between the abuse they suffered and the abuse we found inflicted upon Bosnian Muslim prisoners in Serbian camps," wrote Patricia M. Wald, a retired appointee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Jimmy Carter, about Guantanamo prisoners. Wald penned the foreword to a report on "Guantanamo and its Aftermath" published by the Human Rights Center at the University of California-Berkeley.

"The officials and guards in charge of those prison camps [in Serbia] and the civilian leaders who sanctioned their establishment were prosecuted...for war crimes, crimes against humanity and, in extreme cases, genocide," Wald wrote.

A participant in previous matters in the War on Terror, Wald was a member of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction established by the Bush administration to investigate the intelligence failures in the run-up to the War in Iraq.