“GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 20 — In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — a clear break with the approach of the outgoing Bush administration.
The instruction came in a motion filed with a military court in the case of five defendants accused of organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The motion called for “a continuance of the proceedings” until May 20 so that “the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically.”
The same motion was filed in another case scheduled to resume Wednesday, involving a Canadian detainee, and will be filed in all other pending matters.
Such a request may not be automatically granted by military judges, and not all defense attorneys may agree to such a suspension. But the move is a first step toward closing a detention facility and system of military trials that became a worldwide symbol of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism and its unyielding attitude toward foreign and domestic critics.
The legal maneuver appears designed to provide the Obama administration time to refashion the prosecution system and potentially treat detainees as criminal defendants in federal court or have them face war-crimes charges in military courts-martial. It is also possible that the administration could re-form and relocate the military commissions before resuming trials.”
Yeah, and who primarily is rejoicing?
“We welcome our new commander-in-chief and this first step towards restoring the rule of law,” said Army Maj. Jon Jackson, a military defense attorney for Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, one of the Sept. 11 defendants.”
9/11 victims are outraged at any thought of closing Gitmo and of any attempt to halt justice.
“We demand that this camp stay open and that the process continue,” said Joe Holland, whose son was among those killed during the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington.
“Right here, right now, this is a good process, they are getting a fair trial,” Mr. Holland told reporters at the U.S. facility in Cuba, referring to the military commissions established by the Bush administration to try “war on terror” detainees held at the facility.
“Guantanamo has been described as a national embarrassment. Mass murder in America is embarrassing,” said Donald Arias, his voice trembling with rage. “Mr. Obama, it will be your job to take care of us.”
It would seem that the Obama Administration response to American who lost loved ones, “too bad”.
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Barry Ask For Temporary Halt To G’itmo Trials : Stop The ACLU
January 21st, 2009 at 9:18 am
1[...] Macsmind: 9/11 victims are outraged at any thought of closing Gitmo and of any attempt to halt justice [...]
WJC
January 21st, 2009 at 10:30 am
2“I don’t want to feel your pain”
claudia
January 21st, 2009 at 2:10 pm
3The detainees are innocent until proven guilty. Not many Americans know that according to Amnesty International most of the detainees were innocent. They were sold to the Americans some for $1,000., other for more. This news aired in Canada, U.K. Italy but of course not in the U.S. Americans have to remain ignorant making it much easier to control them. Do you really believe a self-proclaimed architect of 9/11 after being subjected for years (secret prisons which Bush denied then admitted) to torture such as waterboarding, physical abuse, sleep deprivation etc. Pentagon needs “guilty” people as a cover up hoping that the families of the victims will come to closure after executing them. Look for the real truth. These men at Gitmo are tribal men, do you seriously believe that from their cave they could architect the 9/11? If you do, you’ve been brainwashed by Bush. There is a lot of doubt around the world about what really happened that day.
Dee
January 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
4Yeah were in hell. Hussein really Loves america.I still can’t believe after 9/11 we have this guy in the white house
keith
January 21st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
5Regardless of what kind of conspiracy theory people want to talk about, if the people are in Guatanamo bay, their there for a reason, they know something, regardless of what the sympathizers want to try and get people to believe.
The people who lost loved ones in 9/11 won’t have closure by anything else other than finding Bin Laden anyway.
Also saying these men couldn’t have possibly been the architects of 9/11 is like believing that there are no such things as terrorists. Next thing you know people will try to say that the people who died in the towers and lets not forget all the planes that crashed that day, deserved what they got. How ridiculous does that sound.
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