Is this justice ??

Question

Osama bin Laden's driver was so close to al Qaeda's inner circle he knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the September 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.

Hamdan's lawyer said the Yemeni, who was held for nearly seven years before his trial, was simply a paid employee of the fugitive al Qaeda leader, a driver in the motor pool who never joined the militant group or plotted attacks on America.

Prosecutor Timothy Stone told the six-member jury of U.S. military officers who will decide Hamdan's guilt or innocence that Hamdan had inside knowledge of the 2001 attacks on the United States because he overheard a conversation between bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Whatever happened to 12 good men on a jury ??

Why Military jury, it was done to the people of America ??

7 years before a trial ??

He was a driver who heard many things over and above, so how many Taxi drivers should be sent to prison ??

This is MADNESS !!

Answer 1

You sir need to get edumicated on war crimes tribunals.  Check out the Nuremburg trials after WW2 for some good info.

Answer 2

Justice?

It does not exist in this country any more!!!

Answer 3

You should poise this question to someone that lost a loved one in their attack.

In the good ole days we would not be having a trial. There would be no one to try..

Answer 4

Come on you lot, this is all just charades, because more people are starting to wakeup to the truth of 911, and they are getting scared.

Answer 5

I think your terrorist buddy is going away for life.

Too bad he's not being made to jump out of the 79th story of a burning building.

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

Madness is not the word that I would use, dictatorial is how I would describe it.

Answer 8

Who cares, in life you get what you deserve

Answer 9

You forgot to mention he was caught with 2 surface to air missiles in his possession - I guess you think he was going duck hunting?

Answer 10

See the issue is we failed to recognize these people as Prisoners of War/war criminals, so thus we were breaking international law in holding them without rights. However our government i guess has finally done so, so by right they are allowed to try them in millitary tribunal.

Answer 11

That's a pretty difficult decision. He knew it, but did he really try to tell anyone? And even if he did, would others listen to him. Due to the fact that I'm American, and on 9/11, thousands were killed, I would think of it as justice. But if I was from a different country, I would probably say it's misuse of power. It's a hard decision.

Answer 12

yes i agree he may or may not of heard something wow hang him.



only in America

Answer 13

No, it's not justice. It's not the rule of law either.

There is no jury, because a civilian jury might make the wrong decision.

The tribunal is military in nature (never mind that these people are so called "enemy combatants, which logically means the members of tribunal are to act as judges in their own cause....) because that is the way the administration want it. The military can keep secret, and are less likely to be outraged by the treatment of the defendants.

7 years to trial because the President wants to close Guantanamo before the election, and 7 years because there didn't seem at any time enough evidence to convict.

It's not madness... it's politics bending the law. For once, be glad the UK has a human rights act.