E.J.Armstrong
Illuminator
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The US military are about to pronounce the results of the show trial in Guantanamo Bay.
'...Lawyers for Mr Hamdan said not one witness had testified that Mr Hamdan played any part in terrorist attacks. They questioned the fairness of the trial, which began on 21 July.
"This is a classic case of guilt by association," said Lieutenant Commander Brian Mizer, a military defence lawyer appointed by the Pentagon. ...'
from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7541862.stm
In a related trial US military prosecutors stated that the accused was a major threat to the US and was likely to murder hundreds of thousands of Americans because they had irrefutable evidence that he had once breathed air Osama Bin Laden had breathed.
In a damning summary the US military lawyer said that only a committed terrorist would breathe air once used by Bin Laden. The fact that the air had moved ten thousand miles from Afghanistan at the time of the alleged offence was irrelevant to the obviously fair and honest judicial process overseen by the US military. He called for the death penalty, saying that an example needed to be made so that others would not follow suit.
The jury of six US military officers specially picked because they were going to come up with the verdict the US government wanted has now retired to consider their verdict. No defense was allowed in the trial as the military court already knew the accused was guilty.
The chair of the court explained that 'Whatever the guilty verdict, we are protecting the free world from terrorism and the world should be applauding the US as the accused had been described as a 'bad man' by President Bush and Dick Cheney and was therefore, by definition, guilty.
'...Lawyers for Mr Hamdan said not one witness had testified that Mr Hamdan played any part in terrorist attacks. They questioned the fairness of the trial, which began on 21 July.
"This is a classic case of guilt by association," said Lieutenant Commander Brian Mizer, a military defence lawyer appointed by the Pentagon. ...'
from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7541862.stm
In a related trial US military prosecutors stated that the accused was a major threat to the US and was likely to murder hundreds of thousands of Americans because they had irrefutable evidence that he had once breathed air Osama Bin Laden had breathed.
In a damning summary the US military lawyer said that only a committed terrorist would breathe air once used by Bin Laden. The fact that the air had moved ten thousand miles from Afghanistan at the time of the alleged offence was irrelevant to the obviously fair and honest judicial process overseen by the US military. He called for the death penalty, saying that an example needed to be made so that others would not follow suit.
The jury of six US military officers specially picked because they were going to come up with the verdict the US government wanted has now retired to consider their verdict. No defense was allowed in the trial as the military court already knew the accused was guilty.
The chair of the court explained that 'Whatever the guilty verdict, we are protecting the free world from terrorism and the world should be applauding the US as the accused had been described as a 'bad man' by President Bush and Dick Cheney and was therefore, by definition, guilty.
