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The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there

By: Pam On: Feb/6/09 - 4 Comments

Danger on the horizon

Posted on: February 6, 2009 |

Posted in: National News

4 Responses to “The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there”

  1. BonBon
    February 6, 2009 - 11:28 AM on February 6th, 2009

    Great, why don’t we just release them onto the streets of our country?  Say, San Francisco or Vermont?  Maybe the ACLU has an idea of what we should do with them.  Sending them back to their countries doesn’t count.  SFL, this question is a good one for you. 

  2. Robert
    February 6, 2009 - 05:31 PM on February 6th, 2009

    I think a vote should be taken among all the Senators and reps about Gitmo. The detainees should be divided up among those who want to close Gitmo; they can take these poor victims of the Bush war home with them. Surely they have room in their homes for them!

  3. Bikerken
    February 7, 2009 - 09:34 PM on February 7th, 2009

    I’m just curious, a band of men who are not Americans, in civilian clothes put together a truck bomb and blow up a polling place in the backwoods of Afghanistan.  Exactly which American court has jurisdiction over this crime and under what authority?  How is it possible that these men could legally ever end up in front of any American judge.

    If you’re thinking Geneva convention, think again.  There is no provision in the GC that allows the above described persons to be brought before any CIVIL court, only military tribunals.  And there is no time limit on how long you can hold them, and you have every legal right to shoot them on the spot according to the GC.  I’m not kidding, read it. 

  4. Robert
    February 7, 2009 - 11:45 PM on February 7th, 2009

    Bikerken, you are exactly right. How would it make any sense to put any of them into the civilian court system? Only to clowns.

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