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...controversial issue of British citizens being held as unlawful combatants, Blair reacted as if it were an easily adjudicated matter among friends. And his attitude paid off. (The next day the White House announced it is suspending legal proceedings against all Britons being held at Guantánamo Bay until officials from both countries discuss the cases.) For Bush, that even temper demonstrates far more than grace under pressure. "I've heard it called cojones," says a senior White House official. "Blair's got the fortitude. He's a man of principle and character. He's never wavered. The President...
...foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won't be returned to Britain for trial, despite repeated requests by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Instead, the two will soon face American military tribunals whose due-process standards are derided almost universally throughout Europe as shameful. Among the shortcomings of the tribunals, which are designed to choke...
...Chamber of Human Rights, a panel established under the Dayton peace accords, not only endorsed the verdict but issued an order barring the government from exiling the prisoners. But the men were still handed over to U.S. troops. After many months, postcards began to arrive from Guantánamo. Mustafa Idr's wife Sabiha Delic, a Bosnian, says U.S. embassy officials told her they would never reveal why they sent him to Camp Delta. "But, that is not fair," she says. "Show me that he is a terrorist, and I hate him more than anybody. I would not want such...
...terrorists without depriving suspects of so many rights. Especially galling has been the way the Bush Administration treated John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban. Even though he was captured fighting against coalition forces in Afghanistan, he was not deemed an "enemy combatant" like those in Guantánamo, but given the protection of U.S. courts. "Guantánamo is bad enough," says a U.K. official, "but the worst thing is that we fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq and suffered casualties, and in the aftermath its citizens are treated differently." U.S. officials insist the tribunals...
AFGHANISTAN Movement on the Diplomatic Front The newest group of detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay knew one thing: they would not be treated as prisoners of war. But U.S. officials acknowledged that the decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to Taliban fighters, but not al-Qaeda members, would not materially affect their circumstances. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the step was rather intended as a "precedent for the future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access...