Sure to be the next cause celeb by the Left
A military judge rejected a request Wednesday by lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee to talk to the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, thwarting their attempt to show the defendant was a minor al-Qaida figure.
Civilian defense attorney Harry Schneider told reporters he had hoped that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the two other high-value detainees held at this isolated U.S. military base could establish that their client Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, was not a hardcore terrorist.
Aw, the poor baby. He was just Obama’s, I mean Osama’s, driver, so he cannot be a hardcore terrorist. Yeah, that is believable. Like Osama would hire someone who didn’t hold his same beliefs, and wasn’t trained as an al Qaeda terrorist. It is an interesting, yet silly, arguement from defense lawyers trying to get him off.
Certainly, in their BDS, liberals will jump to Hamdan defense, as a way of reafirming their seething denial that al Qaeda are bad people, and that Guantanamo should be closed as a detention center. For some reason, I suppose just because they are liberals, the mere existence of a center to detain Muslim extremists caught on the battlefields of Afghanistan wearing no uniform sends liberals in to apoplexy. The mere fact that these terrorists are not given full American Rights drives them to dress in orange jump suits and act like complete idiots. It makes it pretty easy to see where the sympathies of liberals reside.
The effort came the same day that the Supreme Court debated – for the third time since 2004 – the rights of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
Rights? What rights? According to the Geneva Convention, since they wore no uniforms while fighting, they could be immediately executed as spies.
Hamdan’s defense team argues that he should be considered an enemy prisoner of war who would be entitled to the same rights as a captured U.S. service member and a court martial – a legal system that critics of the government’s tribunal system say has more legal protections for defendants.
He wore no uniform. The Geneva Convention is quite clear on this. He, and the others, are not POW’s. They should be lucky we do not treat them like they treat our people who are captured, which includes civilians. Of course, liberals blame American citizens who are beheaded for being beheaded, because the Americans are the aggressors. Logic in liberal world, otherwise known as the Treason Lobby.
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