galilleo
21.01.02, 01:10
Rzady europejskie martwia sie czy twrdoglowi terorysci maja brody nie zgolone.
A ci islamscy kryminalisci powinni byc juz dawno rozstrzelani w Afganistanie.
Niech zyje Europy zalana islamskimi wykolejencami!
Zostawcie ameryke w spokoju, ostatnie miejsce na ziemi gdzie ludzie zyja jeszce
wolni.
The photos that shocked the world. (Jaki swiat czerwoni idioci)
Taliban and al-Qaida detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under
the watchful eyes of military police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, during in-processing to the temporary detention facility. Photo: US
Navy
Life at Camp X-ray: a photo gallery
Washington: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday defended the idea
of trying terrorist suspects by military tribunal after a week of rising
international concern over how prisoners from Afghanistan and beyond are being
treated.
He spoke as 34 more prisoners from the war on terrorism were headed to the
makeshift US prison in Cuba, including six Algerians captured in Bosnia.
And British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw asked the United States to explain
published photos showing al-Qaeda and Taliban captives kneeling on the ground
in handcuffs at the jail in Guantanamo, Cuba.
"We have a just criminal system in the United States and people do get treated
right," Rumsfeld said on NBC's Meet the Press. "And I think that any suggestion
to the contrary is basically coming from people who are not well-informed."
He was commenting about prisoners in general after being asked why John Walker
Lindh's lawyer had not been allowed to see the American Taliban fighter during
Lindh's nearly two months of detention by American troops.
Rumsfeld said Lindh never asked for attorney.
But questions about physical treatment of prisoners as well as the kind of
justice they will get have turned into a drumbeat as the Bush administration
struggles to make up new rules for the anti-terror campaign as it goes along.
"We've been fashioning exactly what the rules and procedures might be, and
we're not yet quite ready to announce them," Rumsfeld said.
President Bush has authorised establishment of military tribunals, but so far
no one has been assigned to go before one.
One matter at issue is the US decision to call the prisoners "battlefield
detainees" and "unlawful combatants" rather that prisoners of war with assigned
legal rights. Under the Geneva Convention, POWs would have to be tried by the
same courts and procedures as US soldiers. They could be tried for war crimes
through courts-martial or civilian courts but not by tribunals.
Prisoners at Guantanamo also haven't seen lawyers. They haven't been charged,
and the administration hasn't said exactly what it will do with them, nor how
long it might hold them.
Rumsfeld said the tribunals are a good idea.
"There are distinctive things about this conflict that suggest that it may very
well be a useful way of achieving ... a just decision," he said.
There's been no declaration of war, officials contend as they argue against
pressure to label the detainees POWs. Also, the fighters don't belong to a
national army. Officials are thinking of having the United States try some
while sending others to their own countries on condition their governments will
punish them.
Rights groups also have criticised prisoners' physical treatment, including the
fact that they were shackled and hooded in transit to Cuba - measures the
Pentagon said were necessary because the suspects are extremely dangerous.
There's also been criticism of the size of the open-air cells they are held in
and the shaving of their beards.
A number of newspapers and television stations on Sunday used Navy photos of
the prisoners kneeling and handcuffed
