Gitmo detainee's lawyer fights procedure

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_detainee

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An attorney for a Guantanamo Bay detainee has asked a judge to block a planned medical procedure on the prisoner's heart, saying that performing it at the base puts his life at risk.

Saifullah A. Paracha, a multimillionaire businessman from Karachi, Pakistan, has already had one heart attack while in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, his lawyers said. Doctors plan to perform a cardiac catheterization on Paracha at Guantanamo this month, a government official said.

But attorney G.T. Hunt on Tuesday asked a court in Washington to block it, saying Guantanamo lacks the medical facilities and backup in case anything went wrong.

"There is no excuse for risking petitioner Paracha's life by subjecting him to this procedure at Guantanamo," Hunt said in an emergency application filed with the federal court. A copy of the petition was provided to The Associated Press.

[The Stranger]

1. I'm glad there are records of all those involved with the concentration camp.

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they turn . . . they turn . . .

[Spangle]

2. n/t

posted in the wrong thread.

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Sorry!