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ABC News: President Bush to announce that detainees held at secret CIA prisons, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be transferred to the Department of Defense and granted protection under the Geneva Conventions.
Excellent! He only had to be told by the people and the courts that he was seriously in the wrong. He only had to hear it from the U.N. and get hundreds of thousands of letters speaking out against his policy on torture to stop. What a horrible man to think it was ok to torture people. Most of those people were not terrorists, they were prisoners of war whose only crime was fighting for their country to not be taken over by us. This is an embarrassment to the the United States.
War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld
The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes for authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1444246
NO PENTAGON ACTION PLANNED ON GUANTANAMO ABUSE REPORT
The Pentagon plans no action as a result of a newly released FBI report on detainee abuse at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, a spokesman said Wednesday, asserting there is nothing new in the report.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...ino-report.html
Torture, Suicide and Imprisonment: A Look Back at Five Years of Guantanamo
Today is the fifth anniversary of the first prisoners being sent to the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Since then, more than 750 men and boys from 40 countries have been imprisoned at there. Not one of them has been put on trial. Hundreds have been released without charge and sent home. Three have committed suicide at least 40 others have tried to do so. We look back at some of our coverage over the years, including interviews with former Guantanamo detainees and interrogators, attorneys, human rights activists and more.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536252
Former Guantanamo Prisoner, Brother of Current Prisoner in Cuba to Call for Closure of Prison Camp
Protests are scheduled across the world today as part of the International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo. We speak with a former Guantanamo detainee currently in Cuba as part of an international delegation calling for the closure of the prison camp as well as the brother of a Guantanamo detainee who has been held there since 2002.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536256
"A Deep Sense of Depression and Hopelessness" - Guantanamo Attorney on State of Imprisoned Clients
We speak with Gita Gutierrez, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and has traveled to Guantanmo many times to represent detainees there.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1537200
MURDER CHARGE FILED AGAINST CANADIAN IN GUANTANAMO
The U.S. military filed a murder charge Friday against Omar Khadr, who is the only Canadian imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay prison and has been there for more than four years.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...dr-charged.html
GUANTANAMO INMATES DENIED CHALLENGE BEFORE U.S. COURTS
Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in American courts, a U.S. federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision of a law at the centre of U.S. President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism plan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether...
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200.../20/070220.html
Okay, well he confessed, but while at Guantanamo Bay? Even if he is guilty, everyone is outside of the US is hard pressed about any evidence supposedly given willfully.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits he planned the 9/11 attacks and also to target Big Ben and Heathrow airport, at hearing in Guantanamo Bay. Ref. BBC |
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