United States scales back plans for Guantanamo prosecutions

Reuters ^ | June 11, 2013 | By Jane Sutton

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Far fewer prisoners will be tried in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals than the Obama administration originally planned after a recent court ruling cast doubt on the viability of some charges, the chief prosecutor for the tribunals told Reuters.

U.S. President Barack Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force had said 36 detainees could be prosecuted, but the tribunal's chief prosecutor put the figure at 20 at most.

The drastic scaling back of the prosecutions comes after a U.S. appeals court threw out the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, who was found guilty in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism.

The court agreed with defense arguments that material support was not internationally recognized as a war crime when Hamdan worked for bin Laden's motor pool in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. -- Barack Hussein Obama

[ConorMacNessa]

That, and they have all those reporters to prosecute!



"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

[Caliban]

When Obama starts throwing around pardons before he leaves office...he will pardon all that are at Guantanamo bay

[ConorMacNessa]

"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings." -- Barack Hussein Obama

I can't let this absolutely inaccurate, ludicrous and mendacious statement go by without comment.

He either has no concept of what has occurred in the Western World since 632 A.D., doesn't care about it, or is employing the Islamic doctrine of taqiyeh.

My money is on the last.



"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."