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The Gitmo Trials ? A Pointless Exercise In Futility?
2008-08-08 04:44:00 The first trial of a suspected terrorist held at the less than luxurious hotel in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has now concluded. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver for Osama bin Laden, has been found guilty. This was not really much of a surprise. He openly admitted that he took a job driving Osama around, and ...
Scalia?s Mistake
2008-06-22 22:30:00 A new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law debunks the myth that released GITMO prisoners have killed Americans. On June 12, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia?s dissenting opinion on the [Boumediene] ruling stated that ?[a]t least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantánamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.? The statistic was ...
Habeas Corpus
2008-06-19 13:42:00 George Will has an excellent column in the Washington Post about the Supreme Court?s recent 5-4 decision to allow detainees at Guantanamo to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges. The purpose of a writ of habeas corpus is to cause a government to release a prisoner or show through due process why the prisoner should be ...
9/11 Defendants Charged by U.S. Military at Gitmo
2008-06-05 21:59:00 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba - A military court at this remote U.S. outpost is in the process of a grinding hearing in which five Sept. 11 plotters are being charged with murdering 2,973 Americans. It’s the first time Al Qaeda “military commander” Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, facilitator Ramzi Binalshibh, USS Cole mastermind Walid Ba Attash, and money men Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al-Hawsawi have been seen publicly since their individual captures. I was in the courtroom for...(read more)
Gitmo Hearing For 9/11 Mastermind Begins
2008-06-05 20:55:00 The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and his co-conspirators appeared today in a Gitmo courtroom for the start of their military tribunal. All five defendants face execution if found guilty. Mohammed told the court today that he welcomes death ...
By: The Hot Joints
Gitmo ex-prosecutor claims retaliation
2008-05-30 04:02:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The former chief prosecutor of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Thursday that he was denied a service medal for criticizing the trial process. Last week, Air Force Col.
By: Get rich
Former Gitmo Detainee Carries Out Suicide Bombing In Iraq
2008-05-08 02:02:00 Liberals love to describe the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as basically a ‘house of horrors’ where innocent people are tortured and kept in a dungeon for years at a time. The left would have the world believe that George Bush and his barbarians are keeping poor innocent Muslims locked away without access to lawyers or ...
By: The Hot Joints
Ex-Gitmo prisoner commits suicide attack
2008-05-07 22:48:00 The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a northern Iraq" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/-id/24504862/">former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. A spokesman for U.S. military's Central Command told The Associated Press that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul. U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye said authorities don't know the motive for the attack, which was reported last week by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television. Iraqi security forces were apparently targeted. What?? You mean to tell me that liberals lied to me when they said almost everyone in Guantanamo Bay was innocent? According to them, there's almost no one in Gitmo that's guilty of anything, and that these are merely people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I find it very difficult to believe that Gitmo might actually have some actual terrorists in their cells! The U.S. transferred al-Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo in 2...
Released Gitmo Detainee Blows Himself Up in Iraq, Libs Surprised
2008-05-07 21:15:00 Great work, liberals. This guy couldn?t have done it without you. The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq.
Going Gonzo In Gitmo
2008-05-01 16:53:00 A recent headline in the International Herald Tribune (IHT) read: “Guantanamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers say.” Different people will respond to such a headline in different ways. For instance, liberal peacenik types won’t be able to get through the article without an ample supply of Kleenex. Heartless conservatives on the other hand ...
Gitmo Torture Orders Came From The Top
2008-04-24 17:29:00 Sudhan @17:30 CET The author of ?The Torture Tapes? describes how coercive interrogation came to be the policy of the United States government. Scott Norton |The New Republic | Post Date Tuesday, April 22, 2008 British writer and international lawyer Philippe Sands is the author of The Torture Team , in stores May 5, which chronicles the role ...
By: Suzie-Q
No Go To Gitmo Show Claims Saudi Prisoner
2008-04-11 09:18:00 A prisoner being held in Guantanamo bluntly told the military tribunal which was going to put him on trial that he would not participate in the charade known as a trial. Ahmded Al-Darbi, a relative of one of the September 11 hjackers told the pretrial hearing he does not want a lawyer and he will ...
Jack Bauer Named Gitmo Torture Idol (Vanity Fair)
2008-04-09 12:47:00 Anyone who's switched on a TV in the past seven years knows how hard Jack Bauer is. Women love him. Men want to be him. But here's a fact you may not of known about him.
By: Roastfrog.net
Feith: Not So Nice Talking About Torture
2008-04-03 19:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST Feith: Only “Assholes” Fret about Torture By Paul Kiel - April 2, 2008, 3:32PM It won’t surprise anyone that the least sympathetic portrayal in Phillipe Sands’ Vanity Fair piece is of former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith. Not only did Feith play a major hand in promoting the ...
By: Suzie-Q
A Glimpse Of Life Inside Gitmo
2008-04-03 13:00:00 The Los Angeles Times gives a glimpse into the life of detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay. Most of the details are the standard things that you’d expect for a high security prison where prisoners are kept away from each other to prevent problems. Writes Carol J. Williams about the one entertainment option available for Guantanamo detainees — reading books from the Gitmo library: More than 2,000 books and magazines in 18 languages are stocked for the prisoners, each vetted for its potential to incite. The ” Harry Potter” series had been the most popular selection before a recent influx of nature and music books. At the new Camp 7 facility for high-value detainees — which jailers have dubbed “the platinum camp” — the book most in demand now is “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” a nearly 20-year-old treatise by Stephen R. Covey. The librarian, who didn’t want to be identified, said books are inspected by ...
5 Out of 6 Secretaries of State Agree - Close Gitmo!
2008-03-28 20:41:00 The University of Georgia hosted a roundtable discussion this week that was comprised of the 5 former Secretaries of State; Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. During the discussion they quickly reached a consensus that the detention/torture facility at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay should be ...
By: Daily Nonsense
A G MUKASEY -DON?T EXECUTE GITMO TERRORISTS
2008-03-14 23:33:00 U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks aren?t executed if found guilty in order to avoid creating any martyrs.Mukasey said many terrorists want to be martyrs and that by sentencing them to death, U.S. authorities risk granting that wish. ? READ MORE HERE ...
Gitmo detainees allowed phone calls
2008-03-12 12:00:00 What part of “enemy combatant” do they not understand? What’s next? regular visits? TV? internet? Yahoo News GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six ...
Rigged Trials at Gitmo
2008-02-21 15:21:00 The Nation According to Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantanamo's military commissions, the process has been manipulated by Administration appointees to foreclose the possibility of acquittal. Colonel Davis's criticism of the commissions has been escalating since he resigned in October, telling the Washington Post that he had been pressured by politically appointed senior Defense officials to pursue cases deemed "sexy" and of "high interest" (such as the 9/11 cases now being pursued) in the run-up to the 2008 elections. Davis, once a staunch defender of the commissions process, elaborated on his reasons in a December 10, 2007, Los Angeles Times op-ed. "I concluded that full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system," he wrote. "I felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively." Then, in an interview with The Nation in February after the six Guantánamo detainees were charged, Davis off...
Rigged Trials at Gitmo
2008-02-21 11:04:00 Sudhan @11:05 CET Ross Tuttle | The Nation, Feb. 20, 2008 Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon?s announcement on February 11 ...
By: Suzie-Q
Gitmo Trials Rigged
2008-02-20 15:32:00 by Ross Tuttle Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon’s announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo ...
By: Current Era Blog
Pentagon Seeks Death Penalty For 9/11 Suspects
2008-02-11 20:54:00 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehotjoints.-com%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2Fpentagon--seeks-death-penalty-for-911-su-spects%2F'; addthis_title = 'Pentagon+Seeks+Death+Penalty+F-or+9%2F11+Suspects'; addthis_pub = ''; Related Posts“Flying Imams” Lawsuit Upheld Against US AirwaysEgyptian FM Threatens To “Break Legs” If Palestinians Breach Border AgainJose Padilla Sentenced To 17 YearsLittle Bin Laden Wants To Be A Peace ActivistFormer GOP Lawmaker Charged in Terror ...
By: The Hot Joints
Official: U.S. to seek death penalty for 6 Gitmo detainees
2008-02-11 15:21:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suspects in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. official said.
By: Get rich
Secret Evidence Bogs Down Gitmo Hearings
2008-02-09 10:11:00 The secrecy shrouding government files on terror suspects is bogging down the Pentagon's effort to hold trials at Guantanamo Bay, with defense attorneys accusing the government of withholding potential evidence.
By: Get rich
Coming Soon: Gitmo in Iraq?
2008-01-27 10:53:00 by Jayne Lyn Stahl At a time when there is widespread agreement, even among the president's men, to shut down the pernicious detention camp at the southeast end of Cuba at Guantanamo Bay, an accord is in the works by Bush & Co. to do in Iraq what the Platt Amendment did in Cuba a century ago at the close of the Spanish-American War. It is, you'll recall, largely thanks to the Platt Amendment that the U.S. was given entitlement to send troops to Cuba, meddle in that country's internal affairs, and establish a permanent U.S. protectorate, and naval base, at Gitmo. Reportedly, the U.S. is exploring the prospect of an agreement with the Iraqi government for "establishment of a legal basis for U.S. military operations in Iraq," (Bloomberg News) and the very real possibility that, a hundred years from now, we may witness yet another Gitmo, only this time within shooting range of Baghdad. And, it is also reported that this plan will have built in prot...
Happy Birthday to Gitmo: An astrological reading
2008-01-13 00:59:00 Wow. I feel so honoured to share my birthday (yesterday) with Guantanamo Bay. Indymedia:JANUARY 11, 2008 -- On the day six years ago that the first prisoners began arriving at the U.S. torture camp at Guantánamo, protests were staged across the country and around the world demanding that Guantanamo be shut down. Prisoners are kept in Guantanamo under horrific conditions for years without trial.That makes good old Gitmo a Capricorn, just like me. I think I'd like to offer an astrological reading, modified from wikipedia, which informs us that "According to astrological beliefs, celestial phenomena reflect or govern human activity on the principle of 'as above, so below', so that the twelve signs at the same time are held to represent twelve basic personality types or characteristic modes of expression." Celestial phenomena say that Gitmo is ambitious, and hard-working. (After all, those dang prisoners won't torture themselves.) It is methodical and focused, businesslike and perse...
By: Red Jenny
Gitmo Protesters Arrested at Supreme Court
2008-01-12 07:15:00 81 protesters arrested at Supreme Court WASHINGTON - Eighty people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Protesters dressed in orange jump suits bearing the logo of Amnesty International demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in London in a protest calling for ...
ACLU Announces ?Close Guantánamo? Campaign
2008-01-10 20:30:00 The hideous organization known as the ACLU is launching its “Close Guantanamo” campaign on Jan. 11 to coincide with the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at the facility. As with all left-wing campaigns, people are encouraged to wear something, in this case orange to symbolize solidarity with the terrorist killers. The ACLU is hosting ...
By: The Hot Joints
Go Directly To Jihad, Do Not Pass Gitmo [Digg]
2008-01-03 15:45:00 Released GTMO detainee implicated in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Liberals: Another American atrocity at Gitmo
2007-12-28 22:20:00 Libtoids just can’t get enough. Any story that makes the enemy look like a victim is typical from the average western liberal. This story labels America an “evil regime” and, the convicted terrorist, a victim of horrible torturous treatment on par with the that of an evil, oppressive dictatorship. These liberal freaks don’t care that he’s ...
Huckabee: Gitmo Is ?Too Nice?
2007-12-23 21:11:00 [From: From The Road] From CBS News’ Joy Lin and Mary Hood: DAVENPORT, IA - Asked about Guantanamo, Mike Huckabee said he had visited the facility and said it was ?disappointing? that military personnel were eating meals that averaged $1.60 while the detainees were eating Halal meals that cost over $4 each. ?The inmates there were ...
By: News for Greens
French court convicts 5 ex-Gitmo inmates(AP) (Europe News)
2007-12-20 08:09:00 French court convicts 5 ex-Gitmo inmates(AP) AP - A court convicted five former inmates of Guantanamo on terrorism-related charges on Wednesday, but did not send any of them back to prison in France. How the Grinch stole China city's Christmas trees(Reuters) Reuters - A Chinese city has beaten the Grinchat his own game, banning Christmas trees from shopping malls,restaurants and other public places because they pose a firehazard, a newspaper reported on Thursday. 1 dead as French train hits truck(AP)AP - A high-speed train slammed into a truck in eastern France on Wednesday, killing the truck driver and slightly injuring 35 others on the train, officials said. Bookmark to:
Military Denies Gitmo Edited Wikipedia Bios of Castro and Camp Delta
2007-12-14 03:54:00 Today we reported in the New York Daily News about a team of Wikileaks.org sleuths who blew the cover of U.S. military hackers who edited entries for their sister site, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Among the edits was an addition to Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s biography, where they labeled him “an admitted transsexual.” The Wikileaks snoops traced computer Internet Protocol numbers - digital fingerprints - for the people who made the Castro edit, as well as those who removed...(read more)
Gitmo SOP Manual Take Two
2007-12-04 20:06:00 Interesting. The Washington Post is reporting today that Wikileaks has published another SOP manual from Gitmo. From the Washington Post: The manual discusses the facility’s “behavior management plan” for the first two weeks after a detainee’s arrival, when he has no access to the International Committee of the Red Cross or a chaplain: “The purpose of the ...
Turkey Torture
2007-11-25 03:46:00 After ThirtySomething years on this planet, I have come to the conclusion that The Holidays (captialized) exist so that obnoxious people with whom you would never speak during the other 50 weeks of the year can feel they can engage you in whatever ridiculous conversation they've been meaning to have with you but haven't had reason enough to approach you. The Holidays give them that reason.I had a talk with one of my (distant) relations, Cousin It, this weekend. Since the only thing this particular person has in common with me was that he served in the military (as a pouge paper-pusher) back in the 80s, the conversation quickly and invariably turned to Iraq vis-a-vis Gitmo and torture.You would think that since he is as far to the right, as I am to the left we would have found a political fulcrum in the conversation. Alas, it was not to be.I tried. I really did. Honest. It was Thanksgiving and I didn't want to go there. I made a huge effort to change the subject to something more...
By: skinbeatergreg
Former Muslim Chaplain at Gitmo, James Yee, Lies on Syrian Television
2007-11-21 23:14:00 I don’t know how many people remember the James Yee case from 2003, but unfortunately this Muslim scumbag has popped up again, this time literally in cahoots with the enemy. James Yee is the former Muslim Chaplain who was stationed at Guantánamo Bay. He was the religious counselor for all the terror suspects detained there. Throughout his ...
By: The Hot Joints
Gitmo Detainee Sympathy Poetry Competition in UK Schools
2007-11-21 00:39:00 What do you all think about this? To be honest it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. What is bothersome to me is the competition will be held at secondary schools. Guantánamo poetry competition at Amnesty.org.uk We will be launching a poetry competition for UK secondary schools at the launch of powerful new book Poems ...
Torture is a Moral Issue
2007-11-15 17:26:00 In living our lives of, “what’s for dinner?” , “who’s picking up the boys from practice?” and “it costs that much!?”, we let issues that we normally take a stand on, drift off our radar. Unfortunately some of these issues, and images, just will not go away. Recently, a military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of ...
Sensitive Gitmo Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
2007-11-15 04:10:00 From Wired: A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002. The 238-page document, “Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures,” is dated March 28, 2003. ...
Anthrax Powder and Explosive Unexplained Gitmo Charges
2007-11-05 15:35:00 An exclusive September 2007 Associated Press, article quoted one hearing before the Combat Status Review Tribunal and quoted an allegation against Rahmatullah Sangaryar, who stood accused of “planning biological and poison attacks on United States and coalition forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan” and of possessing anthrax powder and a liquid poison.” The article reports that “the ...
Aside: Club Gitmo Vacationer Ready To Resume Jihad
2007-10-23 02:57:00 I wonder why all those libs who complain about the Club Gitmo vacationers won’t take them in at their homes. Hot Air has the answer.
By: Pirate's Cove
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz: Portrait of a Traitor
2007-10-22 00:01:00 In today’s New York Times I was disturbed to read about another left-wing hero/American traitor. Every once in a while the military finds itself with a turncoat within its ranks and that person is usually dealt with swiftly. Unfortunately, the turncoat usually does significant damage before he is discovered. That was the situation with Lt. ...
By: The Hot Joints
Gitmo prisoners Deserve Nothing
2007-10-15 21:43:00 Here’s another “terrorists have feelings too” Op-Ed, this one from The Washington Times. The author complains… “I hear no national concern for the hunger strikers and suicides at Guantanamo, who actually are human beings awaiting justice.” Thankfully, most good Americans aren’t worried about the well being of the scumbags locked up in Gitmo. They can stay there ...
By: The Hot Joints
Does Blackwater belong in GITMO?
2007-10-15 18:21:00 According to the LA Times there are some who think so.America's own unlawful combatants? Using private guards in Iraq could expose the U.S. to accusations of treaty violations, some experts think.WASHINGTON -- As the Bush administration deals with the fallout from the recent killings of civilians by private security firms in Iraq, some officials are asking whether the contractors could be considered unlawful combatants under international agreements.The question is an outgrowth of federal reviews of the shootings, in part because the U.S. officials want to determine whether the administration could be accused of treaty violations that could fuel an international outcry.But the issue also holds practical and political implications for the administration's war effort and the image of the U.S. abroad.If U.S. officials conclude that the use of guards is a potential violation, they may have to limit guards' tasks in war zones, which could leave more work for the already overstretched ...
Gitmo Underwear Scandal; Who Smuggled the Speedos?
2007-09-28 15:11:00 The discovery that two Guantanamo detainees were wearing unauthorized underwear -- Under Armour briefs and a Speedo bathing suit -- has apparently triggered a full U.S. Navy investigation. In a letter last month to a lawyer representing the two detainees, a U.S. Navy Commander warned, "We cannot tolerate contraband being surreptitiously brought into the camp" and said, "Such activities threaten the safety" of Guantanamo staff, detainees and visiting lawyers. Via Aberrant News
By: Attuworld
Proposed Plan To Move Gitmo Detainees To Ft. Leavenworth Has Kansans Worrie
2007-08-20 20:50:00 by- Suzie-Q @ 11:50 AM MST Via Chicago Tribune: FT. LEAVENWORTH, Kan. As high-profile Republicans increasingly join Democrats and civil rights groups in denouncing the U.S. holding of alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, a proposal to move detainees to this historic Army post in the geographic heart of America is gaining widespread political support. Under the plan, several ...
By: Suzie-Q
Tajikistan convicts two ex-Gitmo detainees
2007-08-19 05:17:00 Tajikistan convicts two ex-Gitmo detainees
Pentagon: Gitmo Prisoner ?Professor? Has Ties to Usama, Sept. 11 Plotter
2007-08-12 23:34:00 After more than five years, the Pentagon revealed why it is holding a Saudi nicknamed “the Professor” at Guantanamo Bay, saying he once lived with a Sept. 11 conspirator and received a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: The Irate Nation
US to consider Britain?s request on Guantanamo inmates
2007-08-07 18:06:00 The United States said Tuesday it would consider a request from London for the release of five British-linked inmates from the Guantanamo Bay “war on terror” prison camp. It would also consider any British requests to repatriate more such inmates, the State Department said. New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrote to US Secretary of State Condoleezza ...
By: The Hot Joints
Taliban Leader and Former Gitmo Detainee Blows himself up
2007-07-25 15:40:00 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 24 ? A senior Taliban commander and former inmate of the United States detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, blew himself up Tuesday rather than surrender to Pakistani government forces, a spokesman for Pakistan?s Interior Ministry said Tuesday. The commander, Abdullah Mehsud, died as Pakistani forces raided his hide-out in the town ...
By: The Hot Joints
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