Posted on 01/08/2010 7:49:48 PM PST by GVnana
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.
In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.
However, the judge said statements he made during two military administrative hearings at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, where he was assisted by a personal representative, were reliable and sufficient to justify holding the detainee.
Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani allegedly engaged in a 2 1/2-hour firefight with Pakistani authorities before his capture in a Karachi apartment in 2002.
The detainee says that after five days in a Pakistani prison, he was handed over to U.S. forces and flown to a pitch-black prison he believes was in Afghanistan. He says he was suspended in his cell by his left hand and that guards blasted his cell with music 24 hours a day.
He said that he confessed to whatever allegations his interrogators made and that harassment and threats continued after he was moved to a different prison in Afghanistan.
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Federal judges, warming up for Khalid Sheik Muhammad.
I hear what you’re saying.
This guy will end up with a cab medallion in New York City.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Somewhere in the Middle East, al Quaida leadership are laughing their butts off...
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Obama, Holder and Pelosi should be charged with Treason.
Despite (the judge's) concerns about the 23 statements, the judge relied on other evidence and three statements Al Madhwani made to a military tribunal and a review board to conclude that he trained, traveled and associated with members of al-Qaida, including high-level operatives. On those grounds, the judge ruled he is legally detained.
Actually, you can’t really blame this judge. If you treat a terrorist like a terrorist—lacking even the rights of a legitimate prisoner of war—and then you hand him over to a civil court, the judge is bound to throw out any testimony given before he was read his Miranda rights.
The real problem was turning him over to a civil court in the first places.
The same thing is likely to happen with the panty bomber. Andd also the planner of 9/11. These people should NEVER have been treated as if they were ordinary citizens who had committed civil crimes. The fault is basically with Obama, Holder, and some other judges who pushed these terrorists into the wrong justice system.
The horror show begins...
“A federal judge has tossed out most of the government’s evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.”
I do believe IIRC that this is the result we all expected upon the announcement of trial in Civilian Court.
It’s like DUH!
“There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Somewhere in the Middle East, al Quaida leadership are laughing their butts off...”
You must mean after they get done laughing their butts off over Joan Rivers being kicked off a plane for being suspected of being a terrorist?
Yep.
Be nice to terrorists season begins anew daily.
This was all well predictable. We FReepers saw this coming.
Not about federal judges, they are constrained by the law and the constitution. This is all on Odipsh-t.
Several of these terrorists will get turned loose by the criminal justice system. We can only hope that these will be widely publicized and will contribute to the voter revolution in November.
These people are plain crazy. Can’t wait to install our own people. Judges like this will go.
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