SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 29, 2008
Gitmo Lawyers Say U.S. Is Rushing Cases
Defense For Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Object To Trial Starting So Close To U.S. Elections
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Interactive Gitmo Tribunals Detainees on trial, photos and a history of the naval base.
Military lawyers for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants say the prosecution is politically motivated. A copy of their filing with the war-crimes tribunal was obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
The defense notes that the prosecution proposes the trial begin on Sept. 15, less than two months before the presidential elections. The lawyers have said the military is pressuring prosecutors to try the Sept. 11 defendants soon to capture the attention of the American public.
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- Justice delayed is justice denied. Get the rials over with and execute them ASAP.
Posted by LibH8er at 04:18 PM : May 29, 2008
Hold that thought when Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld go to The Hague... - Reply to this comment
- Since many of the accused were tortured, including the use of cruel and inhuman depravations by US citizens and their agents in other countries, it will be very difficult to try these men under normal US laws as everyone would be set free because much of the evidence would be, rightly, inadmissible. When someone is holding a razor over your pe-nis your''re likely to say anything, especially when you have been continually tortured.
I would admit to pretty much anything if I was being beaten, subjected to hypothermia, sensory deprivation, continual music, electric shocks, waterboarding, cigarette burns, humiliation, sexual abuse, day after day after day.
What kind of barbaric country would sanction such human abuses.
WELCOME TO THE USA. - Reply to this comment
- Rushing??? 9/11 was in 2001. I hardly think that is rushing. They should have had trials years ago. The Bush administration is nothing but evil and this gulag in Cuba should be shut down.
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Justice delayed is justice denied. Get the rials over with and execute them ASAP. - Reply to this comment
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