Guilty plea from Australian detainee in Guantánamo

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Source: IHT

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: An Australian who was trained by Al Qaeda and spent five years in detention at Guantánamo Bay has pleaded guilty here to providing material support to a terrorist organization.

The guilty plea by David Hicks on Monday was the first under a new military commission law passed by U.S. Congress in the autumn after the Supreme Court struck down the Bush administration's first system for trying inmates at Guantánamo.

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Earlier, the military judge had surprised the courtroom with unexpected rulings that two of Hicks's three lawyers would not be permitted to participate in the proceedings, leaving only Major Michael Mori of the U.S. Marine Corps at the defense table.

After several acrimonious sessions in which Mori contended that the judge, Colonel Ralph Kohlmann of the Marines, was biased, the judge insisted that he was impartial and the hearings came to a close.

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/27/news/gitmo.php

[Solly Mack]

1. sigh

fuck it all

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2. Whoops, sorry mods, my bad.

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3. Duplicate; Locking.

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