Posted on 08/10/2008 11:52:56 AM PDT by Libertarian444
The verdict in the first war crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is in: One poorly educated Yemeni, with an impish sense of humor and two little girls, is guilty of supporting terrorism by driving Osama bin Laden. With credit for time served, the sentence is no more than five months.
The verdict and the five-and-a-half-year sentence may not have been as severe as the government had hoped for, but it was a green light for a tribunal that the Pentagon plans to use to prosecute as many as 80 detainees, including five men charged as the plotters and coordinators of the Sept. 11 attack.
Nonetheless, the central question about the war crimes system remains unanswered after its first trial: Is it fair enough and open enough to meet Americans’ concept of justice?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“one poorly educated Yemini”.... so apparently one has to have a degree to be evil.
does that mean he was educated in the unionized,
los angeles public skools?
What do you expect from a bunch of people who think Bush pulled off 9-11?
BTW - tribunals are required by the Geneva Convention...
When I heard that the Al Qaeda perp would walk aft4r six years, the first thing I though was that the jury must have been composed of Navy personnel — surely the dumbest and least educated of all the services (this from personal experience). The jury foreman in the terrorist trail was in fact a navy man, he was the highest ranking member, a black Navy captain. Let’s be realistic a black with the rank of captain in the Navy must be head of the school for cooks. Not a racist comment, that’s just the way it is in the Navy.
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