U.S. mulls what do to with any Guantanamo convict

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/U.S._mulls_what_do_to_with_0802.html

Reuters
Published: Saturday August 2, 2008



GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - If Osama bin Laden's driver is convicted on terrorism charges as Guantanamo's first U.S. war crimes trial ends next week, he will be jailed separately from the rest of the prisoners, the head of the detention operation said on Saturday.

Still to be disclosed is how the military will do that without subjecting defendant Salim Hamdan to potentially decades of extreme isolation.

The jury of six U.S. military officers is scheduled to begin deliberating their verdict after the lawyers give closing arguments on Monday at the U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba.

If Hamdan is convicted on charges of conspiring with al Qaeda and providing material support for terrorism, the jury could sentence him to no further detention at all, life in prison, or anything in between.

Policy requires that as a war crimes convict, he would be held separately from the other 265 Guantanamo detainees whom the United States classifies as "unlawful enemy combatants," said Rear Adm. Dave Thomas, commander of the detention camp.

"Guilty or convicted or whatever, they would be housed in a different facility," Thomas told journalists who toured the prison camps on Saturday. "They would be held separate from the other detainees."

[annabanana]

1. * IF * Osama bin Laden's driver is convicted . . . .IF??

Gee. What're the odds? I like the last quote.. "Guilty or convicted or whatever. . ."

What was the name of the guy who resigned because he objected to the order that convictions would be obtained?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Military justice: "Lead the guilty man in for trial and sentencing."