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Bagram inmates can challenge detention: Pentagon
Breitbart ^
| 9/14/09
| afp
Posted on 09/14/2009 9:10:05 AM PDT by Nachum
The Pentagon is to give some 600 prisoners held in the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, the right to challenge their detention, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday.
"It's basically a review procedure that ensures people go in front of a panel periodically to give them the opportunity to contest their detention," he told reporters.
The inmates would be aided by a uniformed "personal representative" who would "guide them through this administrative process, to help gather witness statements," Whitman added.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bagram; can; challenge; inmates
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:10:05 AM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Just how many pre-election promises did this guy make with our enemies?
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:12:17 AM PDT
by
sarasota
To: Nachum
"The inmates would be aided by a uniformed "personal representative" who would "guide them through this administrative process, to help gather witness statements," Whitman added." Sounds like a community organizer to me. ACORN goes to war. For the enemy
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:14:42 AM PDT
by
Waryone
(If the democrats paid taxes like the rest of us, the United States wouldn't have a deficit.)
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:16:46 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:27:48 AM PDT
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444Flyer
( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
To: Cindy
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:28:09 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
To: All
"Obama, you're doing a 'super' job!"
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:30:21 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
To: 444Flyer
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:56:14 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
It would be a lot cheaper just to set them free and shoot them for trying to escape.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:05:06 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
It would be a lot cheaper just to set them free and shoot them for trying to escape. I am sure the soldiers in field are having thoughts just like that.
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posted on
09/14/2009 10:21:34 AM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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