US to televise Guantanamo trials to 9-11 families

[babylonsister]

US to televise Guantanamo trials to 9-11 families

Jane Sutton
Reuters North American News Service

Apr 18, 2008 07:30 EST


GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland.

"We're going to broadcast in real time to several locations that will be available just to victim families," Army Col. Lawrence Morris, chief prosecutor for the controversial war crimes court, said at the naval base recently.

In February, military prosecutors charged Mohammed and five other captives with murder and conspiracy and asked that they be executed if convicted of plotting to crash hijacked planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.

No trial date has been set but they are the first Guantanamo prisoners charged with direct involvement in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Morris said several of the victims' relatives asked to watch the trials at the detention center set up in Guantanamo Bay naval base to try foreign terrorism suspects.

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[brooklynite]

1. This is beyond ridiculous

If the Government has (apparently) decided that having an audience won't compromise security, what possible reason could there be to prevent ordinary citizens to observe as well, to ensure that actual justice is being meeted out?

[Richard Steele]

4. I'm sure it will be a very SELECT audience- just the "9/11 families" that support B*sh.

I'm sure the rest of the public will get to see lots of interviews
where those good Merkins tell us how "fair and balanced" the trial was.

:puke:

[Soylent Brice]

2. why not everyone ?

i'm sure the rest of the world would like to see this.

[flashl]

3. Oklahoma redux? nt

[ThomWV]

5. Add one more Outrage to the list.

Secrete arrests, secrete jails, secrete trials, secrete executions.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. This is just wrong. If they can broadcast to the victims families, they can broadcast to everyone.

That will be the only way to prove to America and the world that the trials are fair. Otherwise, there will always be doubt in people's minds as to the validity of these trials and the evidence presented.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Many news articles said that they will do this right before the election

Get it? Do you understand that?

[L. Coyote]

8. DING, DING! A propaganda state doing what it does best, propaganda.

Justice in service to the all mighty leader and his flock of wingnut cronies.

[babylonsister]

9. Yep, it will be choreographed to instill old fears that we're just not safe. nt

[Preston120]

10. Waterboarding, Trials based on tortue, then executions

makes a mockery of the Bill of Rights, our constitution, and justice as we know it.