Talk:Captured lists of al-Qaeda suspects

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I disagree with this name change. Another wikipedian changed the name of this article from Captured lists of al qaeda suspect's names to Captured lists of al-Qaeda suspects.

IMO the new name is less factually correct, and is misleading. The DoD was prepared to capture, and detain, individuals, based solely on a name match, or a partial match.

• Consider Khaled el-Masri. When he was captured, what did they know about him? Was he a suspect? Or merely someone whose name was on a list? They knew nothing about him.
• Consider Baridad, a simple villager. The JTFO analysts used a surface resemblance between his name and that of a surface resemblance between a senior al Qaeda leader named Bari Dad Khan, who was on one of their lists, to justify the continued detention of his fellow villagers, on the basis that they were captured with a senior al Qaeda leader.
• Consider the confusion between Khirullah Khairkhwa and Abdullah Khan.

It looks like the analysts couldn't care less whether the captives actually were the suspects named on the lists they had, just so long as there was a name similarity.

Anyone else agree the name should be changed back?

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 20:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)