Most detainees will be held until war’s end, Rumsfeld says

[lebkuchen]

It's official. Rummy needs a straight jacket and padded room.

http://armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2207589.php

The United States wants to hold most of the inmates of a U.S. prison camp in Cuba for the duration of the war on terrorism instead of trying them before military tribunals, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.

The 660 or so men held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, are imprisoned not as punishment but “to keep them from going back and fighting again and killing people,” Rumsfeld said Wednesday.

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Erwin Chemerinsky, law professor at University of Southern California, said there is no authority in American or international law to hold these people indefinitely with no judicial process.

“It’s outrageous,” Chemerinsky said. “There are no signs that the war on terrorism is nearing an end, so the government is saying it can hold people indefinitely and likely for the rest of their lives without complying with the requirements of international law.”

[T Roosevelt]

1. Oh and we wonder why they hate us...

add 660 martyrs to the list. :puke:

[gWbush is Mabus]

2. .

We will hold them until after the war on terror is over,
but

the war on terror will go on FOREVER.

[meegbear]

3. Just thinking that myself ....

Rummy to detainees "Don't put a down payment on that time share".

[Beetwasher]

4. The end of the war on terrorism?

IOW, they have life sentences....Thank you Donald Strangelove...

[arcane1]

5. wasn't this supposed to be an indefinite war?

so basically this is life in prison without even being charged with a crime?

I want my constitution back!