Al-Qaeda Yemeni Driver Salim Hamdan Is Small Fish Let Him Go
Al-Qaeda Yemeni driver Salim Hamdan has been in Gitmo for many years away from his family whom he did not see and for whom he went to Afghanistan to support. He is miserable small fish. Let him go.
It is like prosecuting the chauffeur of Adolf Hitler as the biggest Nazi war criminal during the famous Nuremberg trials.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hamdan4-2008aug04,0,2040961.story
Jury is out for Hamdan -- and the tribunal process
The first person to be tried in a military tribunal at Guantanamo will remain incarcerated no matter the verdict. Concerns remain about the procedure's fairness.
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 4, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA -- The war crimes case against Salim Ahmed Hamdan today goes to a jury of his enemies, hand-selected by the Pentagon official who charged him on behalf of a president who has ordered him imprisoned even if acquitted.
"The eyes of the world are on Guantanamo Bay," U.S. District Judge James Robertson said July 17 in declining to halt the first trial by military commission.
It is like prosecuting the chauffeur of Adolf Hitler as the biggest Nazi war criminal during the famous Nuremberg trials.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hamdan4-2008aug04,0,2040961.story
Jury is out for Hamdan -- and the tribunal process
The first person to be tried in a military tribunal at Guantanamo will remain incarcerated no matter the verdict. Concerns remain about the procedure's fairness.
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 4, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA -- The war crimes case against Salim Ahmed Hamdan today goes to a jury of his enemies, hand-selected by the Pentagon official who charged him on behalf of a president who has ordered him imprisoned even if acquitted.
"The eyes of the world are on Guantanamo Bay," U.S. District Judge James Robertson said July 17 in declining to halt the first trial by military commission.
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