Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo torture case

al Reuters ^ | 12-14-2009 | Jackie Frank

[IrishMike]

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be able to proceed with their lawsuit against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse.

The justices refused to review a U.S. appeals court ruling that dismissed the lawsuit by the four British citizens over their treatment at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on the grounds the officials enjoyed immunity.

The four men -- Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal al-Harith -- were captured in late 2001 in Afghanistan and were transferred to Guantanamo in early 2002. Released in March of 2004, they were returned to Britain.

Their lawsuit named then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and 10 military commanders. They claimed they were subjected to various forms of torture, harassed as they practiced their religion and forced to shave their religious beards.

In one instance, a guard threw a Koran in a toilet bucket, according to the lawsuit. They claimed violations of a U.S. religious rights law and the U.S. Constitution.

A year ago, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the appeals court for further consideration in view of the high court's landmark ruling that Guantanamo prisoners have legal rights.

But the appeals court for a second time dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the detainees had no legal basis for their claims at the time they were at Guantanamo, that Pentagon officials were entitled to immunity and that the religious right law did not apply to the prisoners.

[edcoil]

Guess all the more reason O wants to bring them to our country so they can play in our court system at our expense some more.

[Westbrook]

> In one instance, a guard threw a Koran in a toilet bucket

Imagine that.

Oh the Horrors! Oh the humanity!

Especially when compared to the genital mutilations, live immolations, live dismemberments, blindings, acid baths, and, of course, the gloriously slow beheadings so generously bestowed upon prisoners of the bloody Mohammedan savages.

[Carl LaFong]

Did you notice that the Reuters hack used the word ‘torture’ sans quotation marks, thus intentionally propagating that the interrogations were indeed ‘torture’.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse”

any 2-bit thug gets “alleged”, but not the US military.

And “religious abuse”??

[sr4402]

If you wear a uniform, identifying yourself as a soldier of a country and have identification, you have rights under the Geneva Convention. Since the United States is a signer of the Geneva Convention we give these rights to such soldiers.

However, did these where a soldiers uniform identifying their country? Did they wear identification (Dog Tags)? I don't think so.

Thus to give them anything but a military tribunal and quick judgment, violates the Geneva Convention and invites Terrorism.

WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!

[BoxerDawgs]

“In one instance, a guard threw a Koran in a toilet bucket. . . “

Do you know that this statement was invented by a US blogger to incite emotions over detainees.

[DLfromthedesert]

Time to proceed to the Hague!!!!

[Lancey Howard]

This is from Reuters. I wouldn’t trust what they said if they told me the time.

[VOA]

“
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by
four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be
able to proceed with their lawsuit against top Pentagon officials
for torture and religious abuse.
“

Poor terrorists.
They presumed once Obama was President there’d be an unending flow
of “Hope And Change” for them.

So far, it’s just for Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and few of his
best butt-buddies.

[ANGGAPO]

I am so glad that the court refused, now we can shoot them.

[Westbrook]

> Do you know that this statement was invented by a US
> blogger to incite emotions over detainees.

Yes, I had read that somewhere. Perhaps here on FR.

But even if a guard threw that malignant, evil tome down a toilet, what of it? How does that compare to the abuses Christians suffer every day at the hands of the bloody Mohammedan savages, let alone the libel and slander they endure from Western and Eastern civilization alike.

It’s also a stupid lie, because a koran won’t flush down a toilet. One of my kids tried flushing a matchbox car down the toilet, and it got wedged in the main drain pipe. Every drain in the house backed up until we could clear the main drain pipe.

There was water everywhere.

What a mess.