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echo: barktopus
to: John Beamish
from: Gary Britt
date: 2004-08-06 11:37:40
subject: Re: Guantanamo tribunal

From: "Gary Britt" 

And your problem with the below is what?

Everything looks perfectly proper, and in fact is more than should ever be
required for these hard core combatants picked up on the battlefield.  God
help us if Kerry is elected and gets to appoint any justices to the Supreme
Court which is already meddling in things where it has absolutely no
constitutional basis to be meddling.

Gary

"John Beamish"  wrote in
message news:41138d3b{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3539896.stm
>
> It is the first time any of the around 600 detainees, who have been held
> without trial or access to lawyers for more than two years, have been
> allowed any form of hearing.
>
> ...
>
> "He was handcuffed and his feet were shackled to the floor. He wore the
> normal orange prisoner clothing. All I can say in terms of identification
is
> that he was a 31-year-old Afghan," our correspondent reports.
>
> ...
>
> If the tribunals, presided over by three military officers, find that a
> prisoner does not qualify as an enemy combatant, he may have to be freed.
>
> Mr England conceded this, but said he did not expect "a very
large number"
> to be released.
>
>

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