Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO, Cuba - A prosecutor in Omar Khadr’s war crimes case admitted for the first time Thursday that the Toronto-born youth had been - as a 15-year-old when captured on an Afghan battlefield - a “child” in need of at least some special consideration ahead of his trial.
The admission [...]
Andy Worthngton
The ruling in Parhat v. Gates invokes Lewis Carroll: “the fact the government has ’said it thrice’ does not make an allegation true.”
Some of us have known for years that the U.S. administration’s basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the “War on Terror” has more to do with a fantasy world [...]
By Robert Parry
The first Guantanamo Bay “enemy combatant” review case to go before a federal appeals court has offered a peek down the rabbit hole of capricious irrationality that underlies George W. Bush’s [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
In this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a detainee peers through a hole used to allow food and other items into detainee cells at Camp Delta detention center on Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
Web Extra | A prison camps primer [...]
By Del Quentin Wilber and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
In reversing a military tribunal’s determination that a Chinese detainee was an “enemy combatant,” a federal appeals court criticized the government’s evidence and compared its legal theories to a nonsensical 19th-century poem.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]
Think Progress
(Audio Below)
Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to habeas corpus and can thus challenge their detention in civilian courts, a U.S. Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the Bush administration’s detention policy.
The appeals court ruled that the Pentagon improperly designated Huzaifa [...]
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