Six may be executed at Guantanamo....and soon.

[kentuck]

Why the rush??
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/12/executions-may-be-carried_n_86315.html

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.

Any executions would probably add to international outrage over Guantanamo, since capital punishment is banned in 130 countries, including the 27-nation European Union.

Conducting the executions on U.S. soil could open the way for the detainees' lawyers to go to U.S. courts to fight the death sentences. But the updated regulations make it possible for the executions to be carried out at Guantanamo.

David Sheldon, an attorney and former member of the Navy's legal corps, said an execution chamber at Guantanamo would be largely beyond the reach of U.S. courts.

"I think that's the administration's idea, to try to use Guantanamo as a base to not be under the umbrella of the federal district courts," he said. "If one is detained in North Carolina or South Carolina in a Navy brig, one could conceivably file a petition of habeas corpus and because of where they're located, invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court."

The condemned men could even be buried at Guantanamo. A Muslim section of the cemetery at Guantanamo has been dedicated by an Islamic cultural adviser, said Bruce Lloyd, spokesman for the Guantanamo Naval Station. Among those buried elsewhere at the cemetery are U.S. servicemen.

"A small area of the cemetery has been fenced off and remains ready for the burial of any Muslim who may die here and not be repatriated to another country, for whatever reason," Lloyd told The Associated Press.

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[rfranklin]

1. This is to prove that the "War on Terror" has been a success...

Execute some brain dead detainees and declare victory to shore up the Republican propaganda. It election time, folks!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Blood sacrifice

to appease the demon lords of the rightwing cabal.
Bonesmen, all of them. : - ))))

[gratuitous]

3. Our national shame will last for a century

This corrupt, lawless administration won't wash away in one election cycle, or even a generation. We will be ashamed of the name Bush until the 22nd Century.

[sharp_stick]

4. I don't think anything will happen this year

but you can bet that the shrub administration and his little band of torturing fuckwads would love to kill these guys before the election in November. In their miniscule little minds they believe that this would give their annointed saviour John, I hate Muslims more than you do, McCain a big bump going into the election.

The big fear among chickenhawk neocon pricks is that a grown-up actually wins the Presidency and the Dems gain in the Congress and Senate to pretty much shut down Gitmo. They really are afraid that the people they tortured into telling them nothing may get a day in court. If they can kill them first, the whole torture thing goes away.

That's my 2 cents on the barely functioning brain of the neocon asshole.

[Bluerthanblue]

5. I'm probably just crazy, but I can't shake the feeling

that bush is trying to stirr something up by doing this- either that or he's trying to silence some he fears may say things that he doesn't want heard after next January.

Whatever the reason, there will be no fair trial for these men. And no real justice.

Listening to Mukasey, and a top military man talk about the trials, that much was clear.


peace~

[kentuck]

6. Bingo !

Silence them before they can talk about "how" they were tortured.

[librechik]

7. Yeah, and 9/11--THEY KNOW WHO LIHOP

So no one will ever hear their testimony--just like Tim McVeigh only A LOT worse.

Because Bush and Cheney are perfectly innocent, have nothing whatsoever to hide, and want nothing more than for their reputations to go into history as heroes, not villains. That's why we will all hear and see those murderous terrorists confess... oh...not....