French doctors say ex-Gitmo inmate is OK

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-05-16-gitmofrance_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

PARIS (AP) — French doctors for a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who recently ended a more than two year hunger strike have said he's in stable condition, the man's lawyer said Saturday.

Robert Kirsch, a Boston attorney representing Lakhdar Boumediene, said the 43-year-old Algerian is resting at a medical facility in France and is expected to be discharged sometime next week. Boumediene arrived in France on Friday, after being held for seven years in at the U.S. camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

French authorities agreed to take him in a gesture to President Obama, who has promised to close the prison camp by January and faces the thorny problem of where to send dozens of prisoners who fear face mistreatment if returned to their homeland.

past 7 years when he can.

As a math and science nerd who pursued a career in IT/EDP, I'm far from the sharpest grammatical knife in the drawer. (My years in Corporate Internal Audit & Operational Analysis, writing reports, were an enormous challenge for me - one I gladly met but not without pain.) Nonetheless, I lament the demise of language skills and basic literacy in my society -- a lamentation underlined by the fact that it has become so obvious even to me, the grammar dullard. I begin to wonder if the failure of newspapers isn't, in part, due to incompetence. More and more, the folks "in charge" seem to betray their own ineptitude, if only by hiring in their own image.