What the heck was going through their brains?

[OnyxCollie]

33. Got a cheap Casio watch? You're al Qaeda!

I wear the Casio Forester model myself. (I like analog faces.) $25 at WalMart.

THE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: THE GOVERNMENT’S STORY
Professor Mark Denbeaux* and Joshua Denbeaux*
http://law.shu.edu/publications/guantanamoReports/guantanamo_report_final_2_08_06.pdf

Just as strong evidence proves much, weak evidence suggests more. Examples of evidence
that the Government cited as proof that the detainees were enemy combatants includes the
following:
􀂾 Associations with unnamed and unidentified individuals and/or organizations;
􀂾 Associations with organizations, the members of which would be allowed into the
United States by the Department of Homeland Security;
􀂾 Possession of rifles;
􀂾 Use of a guest house;
􀂾 Possession of Casio watches; and
􀂾 Wearing of olive drab clothing.

"Matrix of Threat Indicators for Enemy Combatants"
http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/pdf/notes/EC_THREAT_INDICATORS.pdf

The possession of a Casio F-91W model watch and the silver-color version of this model, the
A159W, is an indicator of al-Qaida training in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). A
JTF-GTMO identified the Casio watch as "the sign of al-Qaida, (which) uses the watch to make bombs."
The Casio was known to be given to the students at al-Qaida bomb-making training courses in Afghanistan,
at which the students received instruction in the preparation of timing devices using the watch.
Approximately one-third of the JTF-GTMO detainees that were captured with these models of watches
have known connections to explosives, either having attended explosives training, having association with
a facility where IEDs were made or where explosives training was given, or having association with a
person identified as an explosives expert.
10 In cases where a detainee's background and training are not directly related to electronics, such items can
be an indicator of association with lED detonators.