Judge delays last terror trial of Bush administration (next Gitmo trial scheduled after Bush leaves)

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Source: miami herald

With a judge's order, the next Guantánamo terror trial is likely to open six days after Barack Obama moves into the White House.


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A military judge has indefinitely postponed the last war crimes trial of the Bush administration, the case of a young Afghan accused of throwing a grenade at U.S. troops in a Kabul bazaar.

U.S. Army Col. Stephen Henley, the terror trial judge, on Wednesday ordered the court clerk to remove Mohammed Jawad's Jan. 5 trial date from the war court calendar here.

Jawad is facing an attempted murder charge in the Dec. 17, 2002, attack at a Kabul bazaar, which maimed two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan translator. Conviction could carry life in prison.

Henley had earlier ruled that Jawad's confessions at an Afghan police station at the time of his arrest in December 2002 were extracted through torture -- threats against his mother. The judge disqualified use at any trial of that confession, and any subsequent statements he made once transferred here.

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1. How is this going to happen?

Barack Obama is likely to close down Guantanamo asone of his first acts as president.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Odds are there is no evidence against the kid except what they made him say

by threatening to kill his mother if he didn't confess. If they have evidence, then try him in Federal court. If not, then make some kind of reparations for the six years we stole from him and let him go.