Justice? US accused of using 'kangaroo court' to try men

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Justice? US accused of using 'kangaroo court' to try men accused of role in September 11 attacks
Andrew Gumbel
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justice-us-accused-of-using-kangaroo-court-to-try-men-accused-of-role-in-september-11-attacks-781007.html

The United States military announced yesterday that it was bringing death penalty charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five others suspected of orchestrating the September 11 attacks, and intended to try them under the Bush administration's much-criticised military tribunal system, which is subject only to partial oversight by the civilian appeals system.

The decision to use Mohammed and the others as guinea-pigs in a constitutionally dubious legal proceeding is likely to trigger a firestorm of anti-American sentiment in the Islamic world and spark a fractious domestic debate in an already highly charged presidential election year.

While few doubts have been raised, domestically or internationally, about the men's involvement in the attacks on New York and Washington, just about everything else about their treatment has been bitterly contested and is likely to continue to be contested, inside the courtroom and out.

Everything is laden with potential controversy – the decision to try the six men together rather than individually, the proposed venue at Guantanamo Bay, where all six are being held, the threatened use of the death penalty, and perhaps the most controversial question of all: the admissibility of evidence gathered through waterboarding and other coercive techniques generally defined as torture.

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That did little to stop Clive Stafford Smith, the British civil rights lawyer who has worked on behalf of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo, to issue a swift condemnation. "What will the US achieve by hauling these men before a kangaroo court and executing them?" he asked. "Anyone can see the hypocrisy of espousing human rights, then trampling on them. We will infuriate our allies who firmly oppose the death penalty. We will anger the world."

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1. This is such a bunch of shit to try and silence these people... If anyone has...

a serious look at 911 they will realize what really happened, and that none of these people were involved.