FBI Defends Interrogation of 15-year-old in Guantanamo War Crimes Trial

[sabra]

Source: Fox News/AP

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — An FBI agent defended the questioning of a 15-year-old Canadian detainee Tuesday in what many believe could be the final session of the special Guantanamo war crimes court.

President-elect Barack Obama has said he will close Guantanamo and many expect he will suspend the widely criticized military commissions created by President George W. Bush and Congress to prosecute alleged terrorists held at the offshore prison.

But military judges decided to press on with this week's court session, which brought dozens of lawyers, witnesses and officials to the U.S. base in Cuba for several days of pretrial hearings in the case of Canadian Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, and the five men charged with orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks.

The judge in the Khadr case, Army Col. Patrick Parrish, made one concession to the inauguration: He said he would adjourn the hearing before the noon ceremony in Washington and would resume the hearing Wednesday, unless directed otherwise.

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[saigon68]

1. The Moral High Ground

Will shortly put these Lifers out to pasture

Too bad some of them won't be court martialed for war crimes

[smiley]

2. you're talking about the former administration... right?

[DCKit]

3. Bishop Romero of El Salvador was assasinated after preaching....

that the soldiers didn't have to follow illegal orders to torture and murder their fellow countrymen. Everyone involved is responsible and I don't see where we should hold "our" people to a different standard. BTW, "Just following orders" didn't work at Nuremberg either.

Not trying to be a dick, but anyone who doesn't know that torture is an abomination ought to be shot on sight as a service to humanity.

[smiley]

4. I agree wholeheartedly

and that's why the former administration who ordered the torture and all those who took part in the torture of Guatanomo detainees should be prosecuted.

Furthermore, if a true investigation were ever to be undertaken about the events surrounding 9/11, then maybe more Americans would begin to question the official conspiracy theory which has led us down this dark road of fear and torture.

[Solly Mack]

5. evidenced obtained through torture can't be "cleansed"

and the FBI was brought in AFTER Khadr was tortured in an attempt to "cleanse" the (so-called) evidence obtained through "enhanced interrogation techniques", known to the sane world as torture.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/the-collapse-of-omar-khad_b_138109.html

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/76722/


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html

STOP pretending America! It's torture! It's a war crime!

[Xipe Totec]

6. For valiant doings in their country's cause

Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,
To beautify thy triumphs and return,
Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke,
But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets,
For valiant doings in their country's cause?
O, if to fight for king and commonweal
Were piety in thine, it is in these.

- Queen Tamora begs for her son's life,
Titus Andronicus