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To: saquin

saquin, maybe you should find a postable article and put up a link, and some quotes, to explain in more detail. Showing people can be more convincing than reasoning


124 posted on 02/05/2009 6:58:41 PM PST by DBrow
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To: DBrow
saquin, maybe you should find a postable article and put up a link, and some quotes, to explain in more detail. Showing people can be more convincing than reasoning

I'll try.

Washington Post

The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there.

The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being.

Crawford was appointed to her post in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush. She was in the news last month when she said interrogation methods used on one suspect at Guantanamo amounted to torture. The Bush administration had maintained it did not torture.

ABC News

As President Obama prepared to order the Department of Defense's Military Commission to withdraw charges against terrorist suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on Friday afternoon, the convening authority for the Commission, Susan Crawford, withdrew the charges on her own Thursday night.

The charges were withdrawn without prejudice, meaning they later can be reinstated in a military commission or pursued in a civilian court. Al-Nashiri will remain in custody.

134 posted on 02/05/2009 7:18:07 PM PST by saquin
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To: DBrow

Agree..I don’t understand enough of this to see why we should NOT be worried.

Please post a reference.


139 posted on 02/05/2009 7:23:35 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (FREE BLAGO !!! LET HIM SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER !!!)
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