"Troubling"-Detainees Newly Released 9/11 Confession-"Typed-In English-NO Signatures"

[kpete]

The Latest Prop from Gitmo
By: emptywheel Wednesday March 11, 2009 7:54 am
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/03/11/the-latest-prop-from-gitmo/

........... What proof is there that all five detainees have signed this document, Adam al-Hawsawi's attorney asked, when all we've got is a typed English document.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123669703768883959.html

"There is no evidence that Mr. al Hawsawi knew about, read or signed this document ," Maj. Jon Jackson said in an email. "It is a typed message in English with no signature. I object to this highly irregular document release." Maj. Jackson said he was unaware of the statement until the military judge ordered copies sent to attorneys Monday.

And how is it that this document has been published so quickly, other defense attorneys ask, when their own filings still haven't been released?

Defense attorneys and civil liberties groups said that the speed with which Judge Stephen R. Henley, an Army colonel, released the statement after reviewing it March 5 was troubling. They pointed to an e-mail from the clerk of court for the military commissions to counsel on the issue, which said, "I have been asked by our . . . folks to release the documents ASAP."

The authorities at Gitmo would have you believe that the five 9/11 detainees charged with 9/11 wrote this on March 1, got it translated into English and typed up and hand-classified Top Secret/SCI, then was given to the judge on March 5. And the judge reviewed it, reviewed its classification and deemed it unclassified, and then released it all by March 10.

[gratuitous]

1. Worst of the worst!

Terrorists! PH34R! Aaaaaahhhh!

What. That doesn't work anymore?

[2Design]

2. I suspect they will say anything at this point because of being tortured

I think the whole confession thing is a crock
if you are going to die for your country why not be a martyr and say you did something you did not
look what we did to saddam and he told the truth about not having weapons of mass destruction like the usa has

[Echo In Light]

4. ...or "say anything" as they've been instructed to...or else

[CJCRANE]

3. 5 guys named Mo.

Who are these guys? How come we don't know anything about them?

:shrug:

[mikelgb]

5. lemme guess this thread goes to dungeon

while the LBN thread that reported this sham was allowed to foment

[annabanana]

6. This whole "confession" thing stinks to high heaven..... Most of these

guys have been on hunger strikes for months and can most likely barely form words, never mind confessions...

stinky stinky

[marmar]

9. Yep. The minute I read "We are terrorists to the bone.", my first thought was:

"Who scripted that load of bollocks?"

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[wildbilln864]

8. k&r #18! nt