Newsweek Laments 'Life After Gitmo' in Sappy Photo Journal

Freedom is an "even bigger Gitmo" for these lost souls.

9.2.2016

A picture is worth a 1,000 words of bias reporting and Newsweek just published a tome.

The outlet's newly published photo journal, titled "Life After Gitmo," features 20 images meant to engender sympathy for former Guantanamo Bay inmates. Newsweek opens the photo journal with a paragraph lamenting the "limbo" and solitude allegedly endured by those who'd been detained at Gitmo "in spite of never being charged with a crime":

Two years ago, al-Merfedy was one of dozens of detainees the U.S. kept locked up at Guantánamo Bay detention camp in spite of never being charged with a crime. Though he had been cleared for release in 2008, he spent more than a decade in prison without explanation. That changed on November 14, 2014, when the military handcuffed and blindfolded al-Merfedy and put him on a plane. When he landed, however, he was not home in Yemen; he was thousands of miles away in Slovakia, a stranger in a new country. After more than 10 years behind bars, Hussein al-Merfedy wants to start over in his new home. But he and others like him are seemingly stuck in limbo, neither imprisoned nor completely free.

The outlet goes on to write that "men like al-Merfedy are seemingly stuck in limbo, neither behind bars nor completely free."

Below is a screenshot from the Newsweek photo journal, which you can access in its entirety here. The other 19 photos portray solemn scenes clearly meant to evoke an emotional response from readers. Through its photos, the outlet positions these former inmates only as victims, relegated to a life of desolation at the hands of the cruel West.

"They are not banned from working, but no one will hire them; they want to marry, but Muslim women are scarce; they long to reunite with their families, but more than a year after release, they are still alone," Newsweek laments without providing a shred of journalistic balance -- including why these men were detained in the first place, and how statistics prove the majority of released Gitmo inmates return to a life of terrorism.