Saturday, April 09, 2005
Gitmo court cases leaked
You ever wondered how secret star chamber trials function? Here is your chance:
Jax
PETE YOST AND MATT KELLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS - In a development the Bush administration had hoped to avoid, the stories of about 60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out in court papers. A U.S. college-educated detainee asks plaintively in one: "Is it possible to see the evidence in order to refute it?" In another transcript, the unidentified president of a U.S. military tribunal bursts out: "I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned with international law." . . .
Feroz Ali Abbasi was ejected from his September hearing because he repeatedly challenged the legality of his detention. "I have the right to speak," Abbasi said.
"No, you don't," the tribunal president replied. The tribunal found Abbasi to have been "deeply involved" in the al-Qaida terror network. Yet four months later, the government released him, saying his home country of Britain would keep an eye on him. (Link)
Jax
PETE YOST AND MATT KELLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS - In a development the Bush administration had hoped to avoid, the stories of about 60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out in court papers. A U.S. college-educated detainee asks plaintively in one: "Is it possible to see the evidence in order to refute it?" In another transcript, the unidentified president of a U.S. military tribunal bursts out: "I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned with international law." . . .
Feroz Ali Abbasi was ejected from his September hearing because he repeatedly challenged the legality of his detention. "I have the right to speak," Abbasi said.
"No, you don't," the tribunal president replied. The tribunal found Abbasi to have been "deeply involved" in the al-Qaida terror network. Yet four months later, the government released him, saying his home country of Britain would keep an eye on him. (Link)
