Yes, readers, I am tired of the lies.
"Bin Laden driver may not go free after sentence ends" by Josh White, Washington Post | August 10, 2008
Yeah, none of us in the blogosphere thought he would be.
WASHINGTON - The short sentence a military jury handed down last week to the first man convicted of terrorism-related charges at a Guantanamo Bay trial has taken the Defense Department by surprise, spurring high-level discussions about what to do with Salim Ahmed Hamdan when his sentence expires in January.
Hamdan's sentence of 5 1/2 years, which amounts to five more months in US custody, was far lighter than some Pentagon officials had expected. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of at least 30 years, and now officials are preparing for the possibility of having to set him free or hold him indefinitely as an enemy combatant.
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said it has always been the Defense Department's position that detainees could be held as enemy combatants even after acquittal at military commissions or after serving a prison sentence. "That's always been on our minds in terms of a scenario we could face," he said. "He will serve his time for the conviction and then he will still be an enemy combatant, and as an enemy combatant the process for potential transfer or release will apply."
What a FUCKING JOKE AmeriKan "justice" is then!
A fucking CRUEL JOKE!!!!
Pentagon officials are pressing forward with other cases they hope will be more indicative of the hard-core terrorism they seek to prosecute, including the cases against Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Those cases, which could carry the death penalty, are expected to delve deep into the planning of terrorism that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States.
Look at the damn Zionist media shovel forth that damnable lie!!
That's why they have ZERO CRED now!!!!
The Pentagon also is pursuing cases in coming months against two detainees who allegedly killed and injured US troops on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Omar Khadr, who was arrested when he was 15 years old after he allegedly killed a US soldier with a grenade, is expected to face trial at Guantanamo Bay in October.
Yeah, that was the tortured kid who was crying on the tape that was released!!!!
Gary Myers, who has practiced military law for 40 years, said military panels have a deep understanding of command structure and are loath to punish low-level players when someone higher up is responsible.
"They understand chain of command and the relative roles of people, and this guy was a nobody," Myers said. "It is really a question of how a military panel would view a four-star general's driver. He was a driver. This is a decision consistent with their military training and understanding."
So WHERE are the INDICTMENTS of Bush/Cheney, huh?
Defense Department officials said there are concerns about the public perception of holding Hamdan after his prison term runs out, because it could label the military commissions a "show process" with no meaning to its sentences. They also worry about possible precedents that could be set in US courts if Hamdan's attorneys immediately file a habeas corpus petition seeking his release in five months.
TOO LATE, fascista pukes!!!!
