By David McFadden
Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Afghan detainee was dragged from his cell yesterday to his first pretrial hearing at Guantanamo, then refused to participate, telling the judge he felt “helpless.” Mohammed Kamin joined a growing detainee boycott of the war-crimes trials at Guantanamo. The military judge, Air Force Col. W. [...]
The Ongoing Collapse of the Gitmo Military Commissions
By Andy Worthington
Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guant?namo — the unique system of trials for ?terror suspects? that was conceived in the wake of the 9/11 attacks by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisers — will [...]
By Carmen Gentile - GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Amid hearings beset by technical difficulties and other setbacks, one detainee surprised the military commission at Guantanamo yesterday by evoking the name of Osama bin Laden and praising the terrorist leader for exposing the “hypocrisy” of the U. S. legal system.
“The whole world had a headache from [...]
[JURIST] Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi [DOD materials; JURIST report] said at a pre-trial hearing Thursday that he plans to boycott his upcoming military commission trial, becoming the third Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee to announce boycott plans. Al-Qosi declined the assistance of a lawyer, saying that he did not believe in “the [...]
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