Posted on 04/26/2008 5:46:25 PM PDT by traumer
Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense.
But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Hamdan, already the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, has essentially been driven insane by solitary confinement in a tiny cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals. His defense team says he is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo "boil his mind."
"He will shout at us," said his military defense lawyer, Lieutenant Commander Brian Mizer. "He will bang his fists on the table."
His lawyers have asked a military judge to stop his case until Hamdan is placed in less restrictive conditions at Guantánamo, saying he cannot get a fair trial if he cannot focus on defending himself. The judge is to hear arguments as soon as Monday on whether he has the power to consider the claim.
Critics have long asserted that Guantánamo's climate-controlled isolation is a breeding ground for insanity. But turning that into a legal claim marks a new stage for the military commissions at Guantánamo. As military prosecutors push to get trials under way, they are being met with challenges not just to the charges, but to Guantánamo itself.
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There, fixed it.
“Guantanamo drives prisoners insane”
Yeah, because they can’t kill infidels and go to wherever-the- Hell- it is they go to butt rape goats and camels for all eternity.
Who gives an airborne coitus?
I hope they save us the trouble and kill themselves.
Awwwwwww, poor raghead death-cultist! Indoor plumbing, electricity and no camels- must be hell.
He really shouldn’t be there, nope, none of them should. I’d have put them all IN Guantanamo Bay long ago.
This post has put a smile on my face. Thank you!
Critics have long asserted that Guantánamo’s climate-controlled isolation is a breeding ground for insanity
LOL! Yeah, that will work.
Argue that putting extremely violent and homicidal criminals in a jail setting is unfair.
LOL!
/johnny/
Wonder how they’d feel if they were in a top story of a building and some satanic ragheads drove a jetliner into it?
I suggest we solve this problem by hanging the lawyer first. Then once we know the rope won’t break we proceed with the insane guy.
From teh article:
“for possessing too many socks.”
Socks, too many of them. ping.
I can live with your solution.
/johnny/
I scoured the article for the name of a certain lawyer who was one of my husband's college buddies who went to Guantanimo to help the poor terrorists....it should be an interesting class reunion next year, when I see him.....
How can they tell, exactly ?
Would waterboarding him for a few hours a day help him on his road to insanity? How about feeding him ham sandwiches and spare ribs?
And they want us to believe he wasn't a whack job before he ever set foot on Cuba? Good luck with that.
“...by solitary confinement in a tiny cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals.”
And reads his Koran. (I’m pretty sure even in solitary they get their Koran).
That would drive me nuts too.
only one problem with your post, they arent criminals. They are terrorists intent on our destruction. they are our enemy and seek our destruction.
just a nit though, I totally agree with the spirit of your post.
“I don’t know what problem you are trying to solve.”
The problem here is too many lawyers and too many terrorists getting luxury treatment instead of a coffin.
Plenty of American boys were wrapped in a pancho and laid to rest. The terrorists, and the other terrorists... they don't need no stinking boxes.
/johnny/
“The terrorists, and the other terrorists... they don’t need no stinking boxes.”
Whats your plan for holding the pig feces in close to their stinkin corpse then?
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