Saturday, February 28, 2009

Obama Backs Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners

Good news in the counter jihad. This is the long term solution for captured terrorists then, just never bring them into U.S. government territory. It sure makes sense for terrorists captured in say Afghanistan, stay incarcerated in Afghanistan. This is pretty much what was worked out in the Viet Nam war where VC and NVA captured by Allied troops were turned over the South Vietnamese. Frankly, a terrorist would much rather be imprisoned by the Americans rather thanby any of his Muslim brothers.

While the upcoming trials of Muslim terrorists from Guantanamo Bay will be a disaster legally, and make the U.S. look weak, they will show the American public just how wrong having criminal trials for foreign terrorists is.


FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

Obama Backs Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.
In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.

"The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."
The Supreme Court last summer gave al-Qaida and Taliban suspects held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their detention. With about 600 detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and thousands more held in Iraq, courts are grappling with whether they, too, can sue to be released.
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