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U.S. court suspends Saudi's Guantanamo trial
Reuters ^ | 12 May 2006 | Jane Sutton

Posted on 05/12/2006 10:08:44 PM PDT by ncountylee

MIAMI, May 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday suspended the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal of a Saudi prisoner until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules next month on the tribunals' legality.

The Saudi captive, Ghassan al Sharbi, is one of 10 Guantanamo detainees charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes and the fourth to have his case delayed pending the Supreme Court ruling that is expected in June.

He had been scheduled to appear before a tribunal for pretrial hearings next week at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

In Washington, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that Sharbi could suffer irreparable harm if he appeared before a tribunal that could be deemed illegal within a month.

He said the Justice Department failed to prove its claim that delaying the tribunal "would imperil the war effort."

U.S. President George W. Bush created the military tribunals after the Sept. 11 attacks to try foreign citizens on terrorism charges.

Attorneys for another Guantanamo defendant argued before the Supreme Court in March that the tribunals are unconstitutional because they allow the president, through his military subordinates, to define the crime, choose the prosecutor and judges and set all the rules.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/12/2006 10:08:46 PM PDT by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee

I feel safer knowing that rights aren't being violated. </sarcams off>


2 posted on 05/12/2006 10:38:56 PM PDT by Redleg1963
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To: ncountylee

Well, isn't that just great. (rolls eyes)

I hope SCOTUS puts an end to this nonsense.


3 posted on 05/12/2006 10:53:02 PM PDT by Purrcival (Curses! Roved again!)
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To: Purrcival

US District Court judges can be over-ruled and this one is no exception.

Hold your horses and watch "Providence" work.


4 posted on 05/12/2006 11:36:09 PM PDT by CBart95
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To: ncountylee

The Feds should have denied the guy's right to appeal to the civilian courts and should simply ignore this decision by the court.

These villains are not enemy combatants, not even American criminals. They are prisoners of the military and the military answers to the President, not the Federal Courts.
They are the equivalent of pirates and should be treated as such.

It was mishandled by permitting the suit to proceed.


5 posted on 05/12/2006 11:39:35 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that Sharbi could suffer irreparable harm if he appeared before a tribunal that could be deemed illegal within a month.

If I were running the tribunal he would damn sure have already suffered some 'irreparable harm'.

L

6 posted on 05/12/2006 11:42:44 PM PDT by Lurker (Anyone who doesn't demand an immediate end to illegal immigration is aiding the flesh trade.)
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To: Lurker

America and Americans have become so pusillanimous as a class its disgusting.

This is the fruit of years of government oppression through the Federal courts. Americans have become far too civilized, too complacent, too inactive in the face of governmental idiocy.

We deserve our fate.


7 posted on 05/12/2006 11:51:55 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: ZULU
Don't give up yet. I think SCOTUS is going to slap this one down pretty quick.

You are right about one thing though. We as a people have put up with far to much foolishness for far too long. The entire Federal establishment pretty much needs an enema.

L

8 posted on 05/12/2006 11:55:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Anyone who doesn't demand an immediate end to illegal immigration is aiding the flesh trade.)
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To: Lurker

You are right.

Jettison all - or almost all - incumbents in the June priamries, or flush them out in November if we can't.

Its time the American Public told the Democrats AND Republicans this is OUR country and not their own person property.


9 posted on 05/13/2006 12:01:00 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: ZULU

Is the ACLU behind this case, if not, who is paying for his lawyers?


10 posted on 05/13/2006 5:44:33 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

Maybe our oil buddies in Fraudi Arabia.


11 posted on 05/13/2006 6:01:47 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: ZULU
Bingo. But the Bush admin only knows how to aproach the black-robed pushers of the Kool-Aid Konstitution on its knees.

Dealing with unlawful combatants is simply part of the President's Article II political powers not subject to judicial review. But Bush is too weakened by his desire to seem 'reasonable' to the unreasonable to do what is right.

12 posted on 05/13/2006 9:39:44 AM PDT by pierrem15
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To: ZULU
I suspect that the Saudi would rather not be repatriated to Saudi were he would likely be treated much less humanely than at GITMO. I suspect our traitors at the ACLU or someone like George Soros.
13 posted on 05/13/2006 9:41:05 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: ZULU
Exactly: the courts have simultaneously nationalized all the laws and institutions of the United States (tremendously increasing their own power, of course) while infantilizing politics by removing the power of the people over the areas that most animate them (education of their children, crminal law, national defense).

Sometime soon either the POTUS or some state will simply have to say, "No. Your decision is wholly illegitimate and will not be considered binding in any jusridiction under our control." If it's a state, the POTUS will have to send in the army: do you think the army will act against American citizens to uphold the right to buggery? To uphold the right of government cronies to steal property via eminent domain? To uphold gun confiscation? To uphold the right of America haters to commit treason, give aid and comfort to our enmemies while mocking the fallen and their families? I don't think so.

14 posted on 05/13/2006 9:51:19 AM PDT by pierrem15
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