2 Guantanamo Suspect to be Freed. All the Rest Could be Next
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on June 5th, 2007 7:06 am by HL
Guantánamo trials in chaos after judge throws out two cases
Guardian UK
Excerpt
The Bush administration’s plans to bring detainees at Guantánamo Bay to trial were thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges threw out all charges against a detainee held there since he was 15 and dismissed charges against another detainee who chauffeured Osama bin Laden.
In back-to-back arraignments for the Canadian Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni national, the US military’s cases against the alleged al-Qaida figures were dismissed because, the judges said, the government had failed to establish jurisdiction
HL’s Take
Potentially all 385 detainees at Guantanamo could be set free under this ruling because Bush does not have jurisdiction in any of those cases either. Of course we’ve been saying that for years. Bush and his administration thinks they can just round up “suspects” and throw them in Guantanamo for life because they don’t know what else to do with them, they can’t convict them of anything because they have no proof that any of them did anything wrong, so Bush figured they would just let them rot in Guantanamo for the rest of their lives. Of course they only threw these guys in the brig in the first place to make it look like they were doing something when actually they were doing nothing. Score another failure for the failure monkey, guess that’s how he got the job.
