Eric didn’t actually mention Guantanamera in his fantasy, but he chose a captured Al Quaeda fighter for the victim. Whereas Ken Bigley isn’t (say) a soldier, just an engineer of the wrong race and/or religion.
(And I suppose it’s possible that the Gitmo captives were chosen on the grounds of race and religion, but had the US wanted to do that, why fight half way through the Hindu Kush ? They could have easily picked up 500 random locals, which is what you seem to be implying, within a few miles of Bagram. Oh, I forgot – they’re all innocent – ‘cos they said so.)
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