Pentagon screens grisly movie at Gitmo trial

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Pentagon screens grisly movie at Gitmo trial
Posted on Mon, Jul. 28, 2008
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Hijacked jets plunged into the World Trade Center and the towers toppled again and again on a huge flat screen at the Guantánamo war court on Monday as the Pentagon showed a graphic, $20,000 made-to-order movie about al Qaeda at the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver.

Everyone watched in stony silence, expressionless, from the accused to the six U.S. military officers serving as jurors in Yemeni Salim Hamdan's terror trial.

It was the sixth day of the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II and began with dry legal wrangling about when the U.S. war on al Qaeda began.

But the day ended with a 26-minute, stomach-wrenching cavalcade of archival mayhem -- from a grisly panorama of charred corpses in the 1998 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, to black-masked al Qaeda trainees learning to slit a throat.


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[gratuitous]

1. And this is relevant to the charges against Hamdan . . . how?

Why not just convene the Star Chamber and be done with it?

The movies I really want to see are the videos produced of our star-spangled men and women in uniform torturing people. I paid for those movies, too, and I'd really like to see what I got for my money. In Hollywood, producers (financial backers) always get the first look and the final cut.

[MisterP]

2. the thing you have to understand about the neocons is that every morning,

they wake in pants-soiling fear: just listen to Tommy Franks rant about "national survival"

[defendandprotect]

3. the really scary think about . .

9/11 is who did it ---

US government and MOSSAD . . . plus a lot of helper bees ---