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  • From Gitmo to Miranda, With Love

    08/10/2008 9:58:37 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 16 replies · 158+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 8/10/08 | Purple Mountains
    Recently the Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision, extended constitutional rights to enemy aliens captured on the battlefield and held outside the United States. As a result of this case, Guantanamo Bay detainees now have more rights than do prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. This has never before been the policy of the United States, nor has the court ever before granted such rights to those detained outside of U.S. jurisdiction. The activities of a released prisoner, Abdullah Saleh Al-Ajmi, discussed in the following report written by the sister of the pilot killed on Flight 77...
  • Gitmo's Girl (The defense lawyers for Gitmo Jihadists)

    11/24/2006 11:05:46 PM PST · by dennisw · 10 replies · 1,035+ views
    ivillage ^ | nov2006? | JENNIFER SENIOR
              Performing in purple underwear on MTV hardly seems like qualification for the toughest legal job on the planet: defending suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay. Then again, Kristine Huskey is not your typical lawyer       Gitmo's Girl  Gitmo's Girl Shortly before their first visit to Guantánamo Bay, on the day after Christmas in 2004, Kristine Huskey and her colleagues were told they could put together a special care package for their 12 Kuwaiti clients, none of whom they'd ever met. Stunned by this small act of grace — you can bring food down there? — the...