The end of Bush’s kangaroo courts?
Salon
by Jennifer Daskal
06/06/07
If the Bush administration had any sense, Monday’s courtroom spectacle would mark the death knell of the military commissions in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On Sunday evening, I climbed off a chartered jet full of journalists, cameramen, lawyers, military handlers and other independent observers, anticipating what was to be the start of the first full-blown trials here. After more than five years in U.S. detention and multiple court challenges, two detainees — Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was arrested, and Salim Hamdan, alleged to be one of Osama bin Laden’s drivers — were finally going to be brought to trial. But by Monday evening, both cases had been dismissed, and the fate of any future such trials was left in serious jeopardy...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/06/gitmo_trials/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=kangaroo+courts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Oma+ Khadr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Salim+Hamdan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Daskal
by Jennifer Daskal
06/06/07
If the Bush administration had any sense, Monday’s courtroom spectacle would mark the death knell of the military commissions in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On Sunday evening, I climbed off a chartered jet full of journalists, cameramen, lawyers, military handlers and other independent observers, anticipating what was to be the start of the first full-blown trials here. After more than five years in U.S. detention and multiple court challenges, two detainees — Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was arrested, and Salim Hamdan, alleged to be one of Osama bin Laden’s drivers — were finally going to be brought to trial. But by Monday evening, both cases had been dismissed, and the fate of any future such trials was left in serious jeopardy...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/06/gitmo_trials/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=kangaroo+courts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Oma+ Khadr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Salim+Hamdan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Daskal
rudkla - 7. Jun, 12:58
