Seems that the sentence for Osama Bin Laden's former cook is going to be kept a secret...except that someone seems to have spilled the beans and it seems the cook is getting two more years....
Click on the title for more....if you can bear it.
Monday, August 9, 2010
why bother to try for fairness at this point...
Obviously that is the lesson of the day coming from the military judge at the kangaroo commission for Omar Khadr....the judge held that the statements made by the 15 year old after being threatened with rape and possible death are admissible in the "trial." Yes, the judge is a disgrace but so is my country.....click on the title for a little bit more from emptywheel.
This Week in War Crimes
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the War Crimes Trial of Omar Khadr.
So ...my country will commit yet another war crime by trying the kid (yes, he was 15 years old when we imprisoned him at Guantanamo) in a kangaroo commission this week.
Click on the title for more from scotusblog.
and click here to see what al-jazeera has to say.
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