Another Charge Against U.S.-Syrian Airman Dropped

[Snazzy]

Another Charge Against U.S.-Syrian Airman Dropped
Tue Jul 27, 2004 08:36 PM ET


By Adam Tanner
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Prosecutors dropped another charge on Tuesday against a Syrian-American airman accused of espionage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his lawyer said a key prosecutor in the case now facing unrelated charges had himself mishandled more sensitive documents.

Maj. Jamie Key, attorney for Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi, said Air Force prosecutors withdrew a charge of bank fraud alleging that he had submitted false information on credit card applications.

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In an interview, Key complained that Technical Sgt. Marc Palmosina, 37, who once oversaw the spy probe against Halabi, had himself committed serious violations.

An official Air Force charge sheet from late May accused Palmosina with "failing to safeguard some number of classified documents and/or failing to store some number of classified documents only in authorized locations."

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An official list of charges against Palmosina include rape of a person under the age of 12 in Japan in 1998 and 2000 and sodomy of a child under the age of 12 in Vacaville, California, near Travis.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5791351


EDIT: Note that's the former lead investigator, accused child rapist, no jail time to date. One of the actual charges against this guy (pretty sure it's this guy, recall there were several who have since been let off) was that he served baklava to inmates at Gitmo.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Another example of anti-Muslim bias at Gitmo

This is the third fellow I've heard of who has gone through this garbage of charges, trumped up charges, and then having everything dropped. Sorry, but I see a pattern here. I think the reason they are doing this is that they fear the Muslim soldiers will get sick of the torture and ill treatment of the prisoners and talk about it to the press. But if they've had charges lodged against them, the brass figure these folks won't be believed. Just my opinon on this.

[ck4829]

2. I have to agree

These people are probably innocent. And to think, some Conservatives say that the reason our Courts are dropping charges against these Muslims is because we are afraid of them. That doesn't make sense when Ashcroft and company illegally detained over a 1000 Arabs and Muslims. We also got the look at the fact that yesterday, a Muslim charity (whose lawyer was a Bush advisor) was found to be supportive of Hamas. No doubt though, that the Conservatives will say our courts are afraid of the Muslims and are being subservient to them. If there is someone or some people behind this, they know what they are doing is better than a witch hunt because it portrays the Muslims as some big bad scary group that has power over the Courts (Which the Conservatives also hate).