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Clearly the judge symapthizes with Mr. Mohammed and not with the US soldiers who were "allegedly" wounded by his grenades.
1 posted on 07/30/2009 2:40:24 AM PDT by iowamark
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Jawad
“”Sergeant first class Michael Lyons, with Sergeant first class Christopher Martin in the passenger seat and Afghan interpreter Assadullah Khan Omerk[3] in the rear, had just finished an operation in the marketplace and were stopped in traffic, when somebody tossed a homemade grenade through the jeep’s missing rear window.[25]

Both soldiers from the 19th Special Forces were wounded, Lyons in the eye and both feet, and puncturing an eardrum, while Martin escaped with less serious injuries to his right knee, and the Afghan interpreter suffered only minor injuries.[5][8][26][27]

Four American Humvees cordoned off the site of the attack, and Afghan police near the area arrested three men, holding Jawad and Ghulam Saki, while releasing a third suspect. A police officer said that he had seen one throw the grenade, and the other tackled by a fruit vendor as he prepared to throw a second.[27] Jawad would later tell his tribunal that he had been handed devices he didn’t recognise by the men with him, and told to put them in his pocket and wait for their return. When he went into his pocket to purchase raisins from a shopkeeper, he was asked why he had a “bomb” in his pocket - and the shopkeeper advised him to run and throw the two grenades in the river. It was while running toward the river, yelling at people to move aside because he had a bomb, that Jawad alleges he was “caught”.””


2 posted on 07/30/2009 2:46:32 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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Release him. Maybe Obama will put him up in the WH.


3 posted on 07/30/2009 3:39:38 AM PDT by hershey
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Another Clinton appointee showing us why Federal judgeship appointments are the gift that keeps on giving.


4 posted on 07/30/2009 3:48:50 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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I wonder how the judge would view things had the “suspect” thrown a bomb into her car or her courtroom? The suspect and his accomplices should have been shot. The travesty is allowing the liberals to interject themselves into what should have remained a military tribunal. The one point I do have to agree with is that Mr. Mohammad should have been dragged before a tribunal and charged years ago. If they don’t have sufficient evidence against him to try him, releasing him back to the exact spot he was captured in is his only right.


5 posted on 07/30/2009 4:15:55 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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Do not take terrorists alive. It’s that simple. They aren’t in uniform or part of an opposing army, they are terrorists. The only thing that comes of capture is legal and financial problems for everyone involved except the bad guy.


6 posted on 07/30/2009 4:18:27 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy - Thomas Paine)
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Angry judge


considers fate


of young Gitmo detainee




Have you been APropagandized today?
7 posted on 07/30/2009 4:23:58 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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Jawad's attorneys say he was only about 12 years old when he was arrested in December 2002...

...and he was on his way to sing in the choir at the local senior citizen's center, after working all night cleaning streets for the village's beautification project.

10 posted on 07/30/2009 4:43:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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Jawad's attorneys say he was only about 12 years old when he was arrested in December 2002, although there aren't records of his birth in a refugee camp in Pakistan so his age is unclear.

Let's run him against Obama in 2012! /sarc>

11 posted on 07/30/2009 4:52:29 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Okay judge. YOU take him home and make him your cook.

ps: I'd make sure your life insurance is paid up.

12 posted on 07/30/2009 4:58:21 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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He has been held for 6 1/2 years at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba for allegedly wounding two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter by throwing a grenade at their jeep in Afghanistan.

Not a crime but an act of war. This individual is an enemy of the United States and is not subject to the rights of our legal system.

This is insane.

14 posted on 07/30/2009 5:09:00 AM PDT by johniegrad
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Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle was appointed to the United States District Court in October 1999. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1970, a Masters in City Planning from Yale University in 1972, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1975. Following law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. From 1976 until 1984, Judge Huvelle was an associate at the firm of Williams & Connolly and in 1984, she became a partner at that firm. She was appointed Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court in September 1990 and served in the Civil, Criminal and Family Divisions until her appointment to the federal bench. Judge Huvelle has been a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a member of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, and has taught trial practice at Harvard Law School's Trial Advocacy Workshop and at the University of Virginia School of Law.

15 posted on 07/30/2009 5:09:47 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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The sick thing is if they release him he will have a free pass to commit terrorist acts again by the far left. Obviously his detention in Guantanamo justifies his hatred for our country, and I bet if he is ever pulled off a battlefield again the liberals will be making all sorts of excuses on how this was our fault.

Should have got a bullet in the head when he was caught out of uniform throwing grenades in a war zone at uniformed soldiers.

Case closed.


16 posted on 07/30/2009 5:16:17 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Stinkin “angry” judge over the govt holding a teen age terrorist for 6 1/2 years.....Hey you liberal rat bastard judge, how about getting angry when the little twerp tried to kill our U.S. soldiers. Guess that flies against your socialist pro-uzzlim, anti-American tendencies. The little bastard should have been swinging from a rope long ago. 2nd solution is to release him to you and make you financially accountable that if he bolts, we will make you pay up, say a million so. Socialist black robed liberal thug!!!


17 posted on 07/30/2009 5:42:46 AM PDT by rcrngroup
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He should be released when the war is over.


19 posted on 07/30/2009 6:28:34 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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In WWII and Korea, the punishment would have been summary execution on the spot, if they even bothered to catch him alive in the first place.


21 posted on 07/30/2009 8:23:02 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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“Prosecutors are trying to build a criminal case against Jawad..”

Hey Prosecutors...Terrorism ain't “criminal”!

Throwing a grenade at US soldiers ain't like robbing a 7-11!!!!!

22 posted on 07/30/2009 8:28:03 AM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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Shouldn’t they saw him in half and count his rings?


24 posted on 07/30/2009 8:57:29 AM PDT by PghBaldy (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
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Eric Holder's old law firm, Covington & Burling, is representing approximately 20 Guantanamo detainees. Holder is now the administration's sole authority on which of these detainees will be released, which will go before a tribunal, which will be tried in U.S. federal court. It's not a stretch to speculate that Holder may steer into civilian courts, cases in which government evidence can easily be thrown out. Once acquitted, these foreigners can sue a list of their “oppressors” for huge damages. As head of Justice Holder can pressure generous settlements to his partners.
27 posted on 07/30/2009 11:35:42 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Isn’t that the truth!


28 posted on 07/30/2009 12:38:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (_Resident of the United States and Kenya's favorite son, Baraaaack Hussein Obamaaaa...)
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OK...who appointed her.would I be wrong to assume that he has “RAT” after his name?


33 posted on 07/30/2009 5:15:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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