news.yahoo.com - 2/6/2009
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AP - The senior military judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay is expected to drop charges Friday against a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing.
instaputz.blogspot.com - 2/9/2009
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I remember the good old days when, said
Putz , merely criticizing Guantanamo Bay "helps the Bush...
Administration" and that Amnesty International, in doing so, "joined the rather lengthy list of those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome." Putz even ...
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Charges dropped in Guantanamo terror trial
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case. The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford withdrew the charges against al-Nashiri. However, new charges can be brought again later, and al-Nashiri will remain in prison for the time being. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/o... So when it gets down to brass ...
It's Friday... Time For Obama To Free the Terrorists & Kill The Unborn
Gateway Pundit —
... The Pentagon's senior judge dropped charges late on Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case. ...
War on Guantanamo
neo-neocon —
The charges against Cole bombing suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have been dropped—for now.
It’s certainly not for lack of evidence. It’s due to the fact that President Obama isn’t keen on the way the Bush administration handled those captured in the so-called war on terror, and one of his big campaign promises was to close down Guantanamo and find a different way than military tribunals to try the enemy combatants there. He says he needs time to review all the cases. In order to do that for al-Nashiri, he needed to stop his military trial ...
Ericka Andersen: This Terrorist's Life
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
U.S.S. Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is one lucky terrorist, thanks to a senior judge at the Pentagon and President Barack Obama, who allowed charges to be dropped against the suspect. The action complies with Obama's recently ordered freeze on military trials at Guantanamo Bay. Earlier this year, Obama promised Guantamano would be shut down within a year and the fates of several hundred prisoners are now being reviewed. While some have never been charged, others are like al-Nashiri and that means al-Qaida terrorists could be roaming free in the very near future. It is ...
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