BIN LADEN’S DRIVER CONVICTED FOR…DRIVING BIN LADEN
Topic: Once in a Lifetime, Dept. of Defense07. August 2008 |
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The New York Times’ William Glaberson reports on the military tribunal conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a onetime driver for Osama bin Laden, for materially supporting terrorists. Hamdan, however, was acquitted by the six-member panel of military officers at Guantanamo Bay on the more serious charges that he conspired in Al Qaeda attacks against Americans.
The conviction is a new milestone in the administration-long effort to use military courts. The Supreme Court ruled the tribunals unconstitutional in 2006, noting that they are closed proceeding and made use of secret evidence. A then GOP-led Congress passed the Military Commissions Act essentially reversing the impact of the Court’s decision.
Considering that that law has also been partially overturned by the high court, and that Hamdan has proven to be no Al Qaeda mastermind, the conviction drives home not just the injustice of the "war on terror" but its aimlessness. Six years after his capture, no one seems to know if Hamdan was even aware of Al Qaeda’s most devious plots. Why has the administration devoted years torturing and then trying him in a military court?-MB
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JON WALKER LINDH - Doing 20 years in a Federal Gulag for being in Afghanistan when we invaded. Osama Bin Laden’s missile driver out in 6 months. America - What a country!
comment at 07. August 2008
Look I’m not going to sprout off any theories here because we all have imaginations and I’m sure each and every one of us can come up with more than a few entertaining theories given time. Instead let’s look at the facts and how the facts just don’t add up. Bush likes to brag. Loves it so much that whenever something goes RIGHT in in this war he’s the first to jump to his feet and point at it. So naturally when something NOT so right happens he isn’t so anxious to point. So we have a political party overruling the Supreme Court in order to provide our Commander in Chief the right to not only use questionary interrogation techniques in secret but also to hold court again in secret with this again secret evidence from questionary interrogation techniques? I’m not sprouting any theories but despite his outcome didn’t Sadam Hussein have a better trial than this?
comment at 07. August 2008
just about everyone in the world knows who bin laden is and what he does. i find it hard to believe that a man who drove him around all the time did not know that he planned the deaths of thousands of innocent people. i could be wrong but if i am driving a guy toting an ak-47 i wouldn’t assume he was duck hunting- i would assume he was going to kill someone. i would put two and two together and and come up with four. but maybe i am just one of those right wing nuts for seeing things for how they really are.
comment at 08. August 2008