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In a motion filed with US military judge Col. Peter Brownback in January, Khadr's lawyers had asked for the case to be dismissed [JURIST report] saying that it violated the Optional Protocol of the UN ... via Jurist

“They're specifically entitled to a preponderance review in the D.C. Circuit”

The Bush administration assured the Supreme Court last December that Guantanamo Bay prisoners who felt they were unfairly being detained could have their cases thoroughly reviewed by a federal appeals court. via Ann Arbor News

“He will bang his fists on the table.”

A U.S. judge is to hear arguments a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay cannot adequately prepare for his defense because of his mental health, lawyers said. via UPI

G - General audiences. All ages admitted. PG - Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. via WisInfo

“Most of the evidence was gained under pretty rough treatment and also there was political influence, particularly towards the elections.”

Any doubt that David Hicks was charged with war crimes for purely political reasons has been removed, his father and his lawyer say. via The Age

“The guy who said waterboarding is A-OK I was not going to take orders from. I quit”

A former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay testified Monday that he faced growing interference from his Pentagon superiors following the arrival at the Navy base of 'high-value' detainees with direct links to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who was called to testify by lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver, said Pentagon officials showed increased interest in the schedule and the selection of detainees for trial once the prisoners arrived from secret CIA custody in September 2006. Read more

Click here to listen to this week's 'Six Minutes Over Hutchinson,' as Kay and Jorge preview two new comedies opening this weekend and ask: What's funnier? Surrogate moms? Or racial profiling? Click here to hear ... via Hutchinson Leader - Newspaper and onl...

“Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!", $2.4 million.

10. "Deception”

"Baby Mama," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Universal Pictures laugher starring the "Saturday Night Live" duo crawled past Warner Bros.' "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," the goofy stoner flick that opened at No. 2 with $14.6 million.

With a third comedy, Universal's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," holding its own at No. 4 with $11 million, audiences looked to be flocking to theaters to get giddy. Read more

This weeks movies: 'Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay', 'Baby Mama' and 'Deception.' via ClipSyndicate

“This is the first time he's had an opportunity to meet someone who can honestly say he represents his well-being”

A defense attorney met with suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the first time at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon-appointed lawyer said he could not reveal details because of ... via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Government Military - vissarion - 0 Comments Tags: guantanamo bay , Bush administration , disclosure , military analysts, military contractors Not Rated - Rate This! In the summer of 2005, the Bush ... via POE News

This movie marks the hilarious return of slacker anti-heroes, Harold Lee and Kumar Patel. via WKYS-FM Lanham

“I said, 'Let me go. I want to go to sleep. If it takes saying I'm a member of al-Qaida, I will.' ”

Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. via Journal Gazette

Actors Neil Patrick Harris, left, and Kal Penn star in the new film Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. via Slam Sports

“It is culpability by the British authorities in being involved in most of the process, their presence on every step of the journey before we got to Guantanamo”

Eight former Guantanamo detainees have filed lawsuits against the British government and security services, accusing them of complicity in their illegal detention and seeking millions of pounds in damages, a ... via WCCO

“We're going to broadcast in real time to several locations that will be available just to victim families”

The US military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused September 11th mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the US mainland. via The Irish Times

An article by Philippe Sands in Vanity Fair sets out the evidence that the legal framework set out to justify aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay also caused the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in ... via The Lippard Blog

“It is essentially no part of its case to deny that over the years from October 5, 2001 until his return to Australia, Mr Habib was not grossly maltreated by officials of a foreign government.”

There was little doubt that Mamdouh Habib was badly mistreated after he was detained by Pakistani and US authorities in the wake of the September 11 attacks and no doubt whatsoever that he was taken to Egypt ... via The Sydney Morning Herald

“House of War"(Houghton Mifflin), the jails of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are "emblems of a new system of legally dubious incarceration that involved more than eleven thousand detainees held in mostly secret (black site) locations around the world...”

Even if a Guantanamo prisoner is acquitted on all counts at his trial, the Pentagon may still not release him on grounds he might return to the battlefield, according to an article in the April 14th issue of ... via Lotusinthemud

“The Afghans are essentially rubber-stamping what the occupiers of their country are suggesting”

Afghan citizens returning home from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, face lengthy trials with no jury or adequate defense, critics say. via The Post Chronicle

The U.S. war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay are running into a new obstacle. Three alleged al-Qaida operatives have now chosen to boycott their upcoming trials and more are expected to do the same as the ... via 2 Works For You

“If they had an opportunity for a fair and open trial, they would take it.”

The U.S. war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay are running into a new obstacle which throws their credibility into doubt: boycotts by the defendants.

Three alleged al Qaeda operatives have now chosen to boycott their upcoming trials and more are expected to do the same as the military attempts to prosecute dozens of Guantanamo prisoners at this isolated, high-security U.S. base overlooking the Caribbean.

Two men, a Saudi and a Yemeni, at pretrial hearings this week denounced the tribunals as a sham and said they would not cooperate with their defense or appear for future hearings. Read more

By Elettra Neysmith, BBC News A report by a US-based rights group has said the United States is failing the Afghan government by contributing to violations of fair trial standards. via Afghan News Network Services

“We're not that far apart, it's too bad we can't work together.”

By Jane Sutton Reuters Thursday, April 10, 2008; 11:14 PM GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A suspected al Qaeda conspirator from Sudan praised Osama bin Laden and the September 11 attacks during a hearing ... via Washington Post - Courts, Judiciary

April 09, 2008, 3:15 PM by Bob Thompson Movies This is what I've heard from a friend of a friend of mine. via National Post

“That's when I fully realized we are going to win this war”

Three months ago, Gregory J. Zanetti was a stockbroker and financial advisor in New Mexico. via Magic City Morning Star

A relative of a Sept. 11 hijacker said Wednesday he would boycott his upcoming military trial on terrorism charges, calling the U.S. effort to prosecute Guantanamo prisoners a ``crime against humanity.'' Ahmed ... via Guardian Unlimited

The chief defense counsel for the war crimes court at Guantanamo Bay on Monday appointed four U.S. military officers to defend four alleged co-conspirators facing possible death-penalty charges in the 9/11 ... via McClatchy DC

“I think the military commission act provides the mechanism, the framework, to have full, fair and open trials the way it's written - but not in the way it's being executed”

A year ago, Col. Morris D. Davis, then chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, was a key supporter of the plan to try accused terrorists before military commissions. via The Philadelphia Inquirer

“In America, we do not believe in having fair trials for some defendants but not for others”

The Associated Press Friday, April 4, 2008; 11:08 AM SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers said they are assembling teams of ... via The Washington Post

“This is a head-on challenge to the so-called 'enemy combatant”

Huzaifa Parhat has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for nearly six years. Yet, he never took up arms against the United States and there's no evidence he planned a terrorist attack. In fact, his lawyers say he considers the U.S. an ideological ally.

Parhat is one of several Muslims from western China known as Uighurs who were swept up by U.S. forces as suspected terrorists. Now, after years of legal wrangling, Parhat is asking a federal appeals court to consider for the first time what it really means to be an enemy combatant. Read more

There's been so much nonsense dispensed about Omar Khadr and his trial in Guantanamo Bay -- mostly from the likes of the Toronto Star and CBC, and increasingly from the Globe and Mail -- that it's small wonder ... via Canoe