Alice Hoagland, the mother of Mark Bingham, who was killed on Sept. 11, said she was pleased that the military judge had not rushed to allow guilty pleas. The detainees “do not deserve to be dealt with as martyrs,” Ms. Hoagland said. “They do not deserve the glory of execution.”
(There’s a brilliant statement, if you ask me. Sheesh.)
By JOANNE MARINER
“We will continue to bring the world’s most dangerous terrorists to justice,” President George Bush said in 2006, explaining why Congress needed to pass a bill to allow detained terrorist suspects to be prosecuted in military commissions. That same month, the Republican-controlled Congress voted in favor of the legislation that the Administration wanted, [...]
The US military is set to press forward with the trials of at least 20 more detainees at Guantanamo Bay despite military jurors acquitting Osama bin Laden’s former driver of many of the charges he faced.
The Salim Hamdan trial was the first test of controversial military commissions created to try “war on terror” suspects captured [...]
The existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the “War on Terror,” and today’s revelations in TIME — based on disclosures by a “senior American official” (now retired), who was “a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings” [...]
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