Tribunals are 'US insult to Britain'

[Khephra]

Tribunals are 'US insult to Britain'

Guantánamo prisoner's father seeks formal protest by Blair

Vikram Dodd
Wednesday September 29, 2004
The Guardian

The father of a Birmingham man detained in Guantánamo Bay said yesterday that America had insulted the UK by putting his son and three other Britons before its special tribunals, which have been dismissed by critics as "kangaroo courts".

The tribunals' role is to decide whether the Britons, accused by the US of being terrorists and held for up to 2 years without charge or trial, are enemy combatants, as the Pentagon alleges.

The Guardian revealed yesterday that US military documents said the four would go before the combatant status review tribunals by mid-October.

The prisoners' lawyers and their families called on the government to make a formal protest to Washington.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1314968,00.html

[VegasWolf]

1. * to Poodle: Hey Tony, gotcha backside right chere! n/t

[bpilgrim]

2. "enemy combatants" would give them RIGHTS under GENEVA

it's the FACT that we are trying to make them 'ILLEGAL' COMBATANTS... just like the imperial japanese during their military tribunals in nanking...



and many other places in the pacific while bring their version of peace, prosperity and SECURITY -> GEACPS

peace

[bpilgrim]

3. Guantánamo Tribunal Process in Turmoil

The judge, Lt. Col. Sharon Shaffer, who is defending a Guantánamo prisoner charged with serving as a principal accountant for Al Qaeda, said in her motion that the military commission which convened for the first time in August was an archaic system dating to World War II and had flaws that could not be fixed.

Colonel Shaffer argued that it would not provide a "full and fair trial'' to which the defendants were entitled and which was needed to persuade the rest of the world that the United States was acting in a just manner.

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