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...this week - this time, not at the hands of any civilian judges but by the ruling of one of the military's own jurists. Navy Judge Captain Keith Allred, hearing the first U.S. military commission trial since World War II, tossed out statements by Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, because he believes they were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions. That doesn't bode well for future tribunals in cases where U.S. interrogators used even harsher techniques - such as the waterboarding used on confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - to extract confessions from suspected al-Qaeda members...
...Salim Hamdan had spent two years as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay when he first met Lieut. Commander Charles Swift, his Pentagon-appointed Navy defense lawyer. At the meeting, Swift suggested the possibility of suing President Bush on his behalf...
...guilt. Whether their decision is perceived as fair will go a long way toward determining if the military tribunals that President Bush first authorized in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks will survive under the next Commander in Chief. In that sense, the fame - or infamy - of Salim Hamdan may endure long after his trial ends...
...applied for help 50 days ago, and we still have gotten no response," says a neighbor, Salim Kareem, whose home was sprayed with shrapnel from the same air strike. His children, 11-year old Zeinab Kareem and six-year-old Abbas Kareem have jagged scars on their legs and torsos from where they were cut by shards of flying metal...
...Mainland businesspeople are hurt, too. At Shenzhen's Luohu Commercial City-the mega mall that's a magnet for tourists seeking a bargain, and where Salim aimed to go-shopkeepers say fewer foreign customers are showing up. "Before, we were so busy. We're not selling much anymore; by 5 or 6 p.m., we're just playing cards," says Lin Ming, a clothing shop owner whose sales have dropped by 50% in the last month...