miamiherald.com - 1/8/2009
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The Military Commissions building at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Andy Worthington: The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Col. Pohl also refused to endorse a request from prison commanders to approve violent "Forced Cell Extractions" when prisoners refused to come to the courtroom, and on his first day in his new job, at a pre-trial hearing for al-Darbi, allowed the Saudi to make an appeal to Barack Obama. "Waving a copy of an American Civil Liberties Union poster with a pensive Obama and his campaign's closure pledge on it," as Rosenberg explained, al-Darbi said, "I hope this location will be closed as he promised. He will earn back the legitimacy the United States has lost as a world leader." ...
The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Antiwar.com Original —
... government's allegations are reliant on 119 self-incriminating statements. Col. Pohl also refused to endorse a request from prison commanders to approve violent "Forced Cell Extractions" when prisoners refused to come to the courtroom, and on his first day in his new job, at a pretrial hearing for al-Darbi, allowed the Saudi to make an appeal to Barack Obama. "Waving a copy of an American Civil Liberties Union poster with a pensive Obama and his campaign's closure pledge on it," as Rosenberg explained, al-Darbi said, "I hope this location will be closed as he promised. He ...
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