The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said the proposed trials were illegal under U.S. law and international Geneva conventions.
The case focused on Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Hamdan, 36, has spent four years in the U.S. prison in Cuba. He faces a single count of conspiring against U.S. citizens from 1996 to November 2001.
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Bush Went Too Far
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
Is this correct?
I was sentenced to death by a nazi military court, for high treason and espionage, when I was a private in the Hungarian army in WW2. I was innocent, unfortunately, but they had to execute people to scare the rest. Luckily the war ended before they hung me. There were 2 German POWs sentenced to death by a German court martial in a Canadian controlled POW camp in Holland after WW2, and executed by the Germans with Canadian supplied weapons.
Now, the US military doesn't recognize these prisoners as military, or POWs. So what are they? If they're terrorists, they're civilians and should be tried by civilian courts.
E.g. Terrorist suspects arrested in the USA are in civilian jails and face civilian judges, not military.
Can a military court judge over bona fide POWs from a foreign nation, and/or in this case, over civilians?
To the best of my recollection, the nazi war crime trials, even of military personnel, were under civilian judges. If so, that should set the precedents.
Does anybody have the real, as opposed to US political, legal answers to these questions?
Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.