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...position. And how he would die in that hotseat, sweating under the collar, loosening his red tie, small flag pin on the lapel of his jacket perfectly cocked, blind patriotism leaving him unaccountable. Humanity isn’t the issue for the fellow who referred to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as “the bad guys,” takes some kind of pleasure in the death penalty (which he affectionately calls watching a man fry). He doesn’t, of course, appear on C-SPAN. He doesn’t say enough to fill a sound bite...
...British Prime Minister to stand up and tell Bush, "No more." As Blair heads for Washington this week to address Congress, most of the British political establishment is pressuring him to protest the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held in isolation at Camp Delta, the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, won't be returned to Britain for trial despite repeated requests. Instead, the two are expected to face U.S. military tribunals, whose due-process standards are criticized throughout Europe as shameful. The two men have spent months locked up but, like all the estimated 680 other inmates from...
...center of its global fight against terrorism, one of the most pressing immediate disputes between London and Washington concerned a difference in understanding of how those values are to be applied. Under massive domestic pressure, Britain has asked that two of its citizens held prisoner on Guantanamo and slated to face a military tribunal empowered to sentence them to death be sent home instead to face British justice. Much of the British public doubts the fairness and legality of military tribunals and of the Guantanamo detentions; they want to know why Britons captured in Afghanistan are denied a civilian trial...
...tribunals, has said he's convinced that "we're going to be able to provide a zealous defense for all detainees brought before trial." Still, it's all but certain that a military court won't allow Moussaoui to call witnesses like Binalshibh. Meanwhile, at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where most of the captured al-Qaeda members are being held and any military tribunals will take place, discussion has begun about the possible need to build an execution chamber. --By Viveca Novak and Mark Thompson
Time and again, people rounded up after 9/11 have not been permitted to talk to lawyers. Civil libertarians are especially uneasy about the legal no man's land at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 600 captives from the war in Afghanistan are still being held and have not been accorded prisoner-of-war status. The government justifies this on the grounds that it needs to question them, but most of the interrogations are over. And it recently emerged that among the detainees are three boys from ages 13 to 15. The rules governing military...