I also take requests.
Posted on 03/20/2006 5:52:03 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- America risks convicting the innocent and letting the guilty evade justice in how it handles detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military attorney defending an Australian terror suspect held at the U.S. prison camp said Monday.
Maj. Michael Mori, a Marine Corps lawyer, told an audience at George Washington University that no civilized justice system would accept "information being acquired potentially under torture or questionable methods."
Mori spoke after several former detainees recounted their experiences at the camp, which holds roughly 500 prisoners. Most were taken in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Mori's client, David Hicks, was caught in December 2001, allegedly while fighting alongside Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime. He has pleaded innocent to charges that include attempted murder and aiding the enemy.
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There! I'm over it now.
Oh wait....It's just gas. Never mind.
That the AP "reports" this unverified tripe proves their irrelevance to the truth.
Also, the AP misses the point: Guantanamo folks are detained. No trial is needed. No conviction is needed. At best they eventually get prisoner of war treatment, for as long as hostilities last. Not our fault if the hostilities last for 20 years.
They better hope that the jihadis give up.
Answer: All of them.
More high profile inmates have died in The Hague than at Club Gitmo - Where's Amnesty International?
FNC (probably Hannity & Colmes) had an item recently about people being detained indefinitely in the Bahamas for the crime of trying to escape from Cuba to the U.S. The conditions they live under are far worse than at Gitmo, but no one cares about their plight because they are anti-Castro Cubans.
Oh the humanity!!! That poor man - how he was harmed at Gitmo.
let him come to my house, I'll show him what REAL abuse is...friggin terrorist.
Ok enough blood pressure raising out of me for the night.
What else would these LIARS say. OMG
A non-story, frankly, and while I know the Major is doing his job as a defense attorney I'm a little disappointed in this manifestation of it.
I, frankly, don't believe a word of this. I'm sure the pepper spray was administered when the prisoner was being abusive and not as a means of torture. The loud music accusation is idiotic for the simple reason that if its loud, others, including guards, have to put up with it.
What these idiots REALLY don't want is the US releasing them back to their home country with us letting the word out that they told us everything we wanted to know.
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