JUDGES Ruling Could Spell END Of Military Commissions Act!

[kpete]

Judge dismisses charges against detainee
By ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer
11 minutes ago


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A military judge on Monday dismissed terrorism-related charges against a prisoner charged with killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, in a stunning reversal for the Bush administration's attempts to try Guantanamo detainees in military court.

The chief of military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay, Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan, said the ruling could spell the end of the war-crimes trial system set up last year by Congress and President Bush after the Supreme Court threw out the previous system. The ruling immediately raised questions about whether the U.S. will have to further revise procedures for prosecuting prisoners, leading to major delays.

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The judge, Army Col. Peter Brownback, said he had no choice but to throw out the Khadr case because he had been classified as an "enemy combatant" by a military panel years earlier — and not as an "alien unlawful enemy combatant."


more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_trials

[demnan]

1. I love the smell of impeachment in the morning

:evilgrin:

[atreides1]

2. This won't last long

I'll bet that the White House and the DoD are already in the planning stages to declare all of the detainees at GITMO as "alien unlawful enemy combatant."

But Bush doesn't have the guts to do it, so they'll create a Kangaroo court that will do their bidding, and this poor kid will be on trial again!