[Thombo2]

No bail?I see these guys are only suspected of a crime.What about confinement to base?

[Candor7]

These men are being protected from speaking to the liberal drive by media.<p.

[Non-Sequitur]

No bail?I see these guys are only suspected of a crime.What about confinement to base?

There is no bail under the military legal system. Suspects can be restricted to base or placed in the brig depending on the seriousness of the charges they are facing and the decision of the local commanders.

[JLS]

No bail?I see these guys are only suspected of a crime.What about confinement to base?

Bail, they are not charged with a crime yet. Of course when you join the military, you basically have given up a large part of your freedom.

BTW, this whole thing smacks of some nut base commander or officer in charge of the brig going over the top. That is why someone up the chain of command changed their treatment relatively quickly.

More fundamentally, we can not fight the war on terror, if every insurgent and disgrunteled subordinate is going to be immediately believed when they claim a war crime. When we send these guys out, we have to trust them. If we don't trust them, then we should not send them in the field with a weapon. Now if a group has war crimes claimed over and over with some credibility, then we must do something. But we can not let the enimy decide when our troops can be in the field.