From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 16:55:18 MDT
On 10 Aug 2002 at 10:52, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> Terror suspects 'have no right to US trial'
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,767268,00.html
>
> Rebecca Allison
> Thursday August 1, 2002
> The Guardian
>
> A US federal judge yesterday ruled that two British citizens and an
> Australian captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay have no
> right to trial before American courts.
>
> <snip>
>
> Clive Stafford Smith, representing Mr Iqbal and Mr Rasul, last night
> described the decision by US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly as
> "the ultimate exercise in hypocrisy", after she ruled that the US
> legal system has no jurisdiction over detainees held in Cuba and that
> writs of habeas corpus did not apply to aliens held outside US
> territory.
>
> "The court concludes that the military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
> is outside the sovereign territory of the United States," she said.
>
> Mr Stafford Smith said he would appeal the decision: "The US says it
> is fighting this whole war in the cause of democracy and the rule of
> law. What do they do then? They take these folk to Cuba where for 40
> years they have said there is no rule of law and they do so explicitly
> to deny them of any legal rights. If that isn't ironic I don't know
> what is.
>
> "The tragedy of the US attitude to this whole terrorism issue is that
> they are just creating more terrorists because they are illustrating
> to the entire world that they are not serious about this struggle for
> democracy."
>
> He said that if the appeal failed he could see one other option: "This
> means the only court that can order the release of these folk is Fidel
> Castro's. That means it is time for habeas corpus in Havana. If he has
> a sense of humour he will grant release".
>
Isn't it touching how concerned people are about these memebotic
butchers and how much less concerned they are about the victims they
have vowed to devote their lives to claiming if they should be freed...
>
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