Journal mapkinase's Journal: U.S. Charges Guantanamo Detainee with murder 1
U.S. Charges Guantanamo Detainee:
Omar Khadr, now 20, allegedly joined the Taliban in Afghanistan and threw a grenade that killed a U.S. Green Beret soldier in July 2002.
And now
The U.S. military charged him with murder, attempted murder, providing support to terrorism, conspiracy and spying under rules for military trials adopted last year and first used to try David Hicks, the Australian sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty.
I guess this is a consequence of not applying status of prisoners of war to the Guantanamo prisoners of war. By its striking similarity to what happens in war between countries this charge illustrates the outraging absurd disregard to the obvious: soldiers of armies that fight each other are killed. That is what happened in 2001: US army attacked Afghanistan and there was a war and there is absolutely no reason for not applying Geneva convention to people who fought the American invasion of Afghanistan.
The fact that Guantanamo prisoners of war are prisoners of war became an elephant in a room, nobody even talks about it anymore.
There are no "enemy compatants". Somebody has to tell Jourdain's of neocon cabal that they are speaking in prose.
Bogus (Score:2)
It sounds more like someone trying to play the "I told you so!" card than trying to actually carry out justice. 9 months for killing a soldier? Here, killing a cop is capital murder one way or the other, but I guess if proving the administration's point is more important than actually convicting criminals properly, then 9 months it is.