Reply With QuoteDoesn't make me want to shoot my monitor. A few of the lawyers maybe. . .
Live blog of Gitmo military tribunals of Kahlid Sheik Mohammed et al.
Live blog of Gitmo military tribunals of Kahlid Sheik Mohammed et al.
This looks like it’s going to be amusing and enraging at the same time. Here’s a link to a live blog of the military tribunals of the primary defendants of the 9/11 terror attacks. I expect this will be dragging out for quite some time so check back often.
The defendants are Kahlid Sheik Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Sakith Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, Ramzi Binai Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.
Try not to shoot your computer monitor.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=29820
Doesn't make me want to shoot my monitor. A few of the lawyers maybe. . .
That's probably their defense strategy. BS, delay, BS, delay.Originally Posted by C.Puffs
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This is so un-freaking-believeable:
Oh noes! Most of our clients have already admitted to killing thousands of people, but we have to make sure they don't look sideways at a woman's exposed hair or ankle. They might sin then!Ok, burka woman is back and she’s asking that all women in the courtroom be forced by the court to “dress appropriately” so the defendants won’t commit sins. She even got chuckles from the media-types here at Fort Meade and exclamations from the women in this room of “Oh, my God”
Should be being held in a civilian court on the US mainland.
Oh yeah let's make it MORE of a stupid circus, burn more time in the courts that are overloaded as is....freaking brilliant....some days I wonder if you slipped from the doctors hands at birth......
Only thing worse than that would be to broadcast it on live TV.
You don't think the crime of the century should take priority? Debate me, don't slander me. Adult discussion in here thanks.
It would be a giant mess and there is longstanding precedent for trying these type of offenses in military tribunals.
Is there? Links please.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar..._United_States
General George Washington used military tribunals during the American Revolution.[1] Commissions were also used by General (and later President) Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812 to try a British spy; commissions, labeled "Councils of War," were also used in the Mexican-American War.[1]
The Union used military tribunals during and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.[2] Military tribunals were used to try Native Americans who fought the United States during the Indian Wars which occurred during the Civil War; the thirty-eight people who were executed after the Dakota War of 1862 were sentenced by a military tribunal. The so-called Lincoln conspirators were also tried by military commission in the spring and summer of 1865. The most prominent civilians tried in this way were Democratic politicians Clement L. Vallandigham, Lambdin P. Milligan, and Benjamin Gwinn Harris. All were convicted, and Harris was expelled from the Congress as a result. All of these tribunals were concluded prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Milligan.
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The U. S. Supreme Court agreed, and unanimously ruled that military tribunals used to try civilians in any jurisdiction where the civil courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its decision in Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866).
Military commissions were also used in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War; as these were used in an active war zone as an expedient of war, they did not fall afoul of Milligan.[1]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered military tribunals for eight German prisoners accused of planning sabotage in the United States as part of Operation Pastorius. Roosevelt's decision was challenged, but upheld, in Ex parte Quirin. All eight of the accused were convicted and sentenced to death. Six were executed by electric chair at the District of Columbia jail on August 8, 1942. Two who had given evidence against the others had their sentences reduced by Roosevelt to prison terms. In 1948, they were released and deported to the American Zone of occupied Germany.
Yeah, thanks judge Judy, but I think they've got a handle on it.
What a wast of time and money... Just shoot the frackers and drop their bodies in the sea.
Warder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17975317
Defence lawyers for five men accused of plotting the 11 September 2001 attacks have challenged the fairness of the military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay.
The defendants, who include the alleged mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were formally charged with murder and other offences on Saturday.
None of the defendants has yet entered a formal plea, and during the hearing they mostly remained silent.
The men's lawyers say the court is censoring evidence of torture.
The defence counsel at Guantanamo are a mix of military and civilian lawyers.
Civilian crime, why is the military prosecuting it?
You guys should try a thing called "discussion."
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