Friday, November 21, 2008

Judge Orders Release of Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees - washingtonpost.com

"For the first time, a federal judge ordered the release yesterday of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay after evaluating and rejecting government allegations that five men were dangerous enemy combatants.

The government had alleged that the men planned to travel to Afghanistan to attack U.S. forces. But U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that in a series of closed hearings in recent weeks, the Justice Department had not proved that five of the six Algerian detainees at the Cuban facility were enemy combatants under the government's own definition."

This is exactly the reason why the suspension of basic judicial rights (habeus corpus, for example) and secret tribunals are used: to trample individuals. The murderous moron and his hyena cabal lusted for this power, lied Us into it and ravaged Our judicial system and global image with it. These men were jailed for seven years--seven years--for no good reason at all. The murderous moron and hyena cabal should get at least many times that.

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