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Pentagon charges Guantanamo detainee
Mar 12, 2008, 21:38 GMT
Washington - The US Defence Department announced Wednesday that charges have been filed against an Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for providing material support to terrorism.
Mohammed Kamin faces life imprisonment if convicted of receiving training in an al-Qaeda camp from January to May 2003 in Afghanistan to make detonators for improvised bombs, and other weapons training for carrying out attacks on US and coalition troops.
The charges allege Kamin conducted surveillance on US bases, placed explosive devices under a bridge and fired missiles at the Afghan town of Khowst, which was then occupied by US and coalition forces.
The Pentagon also alleges Kamin transported weapons used by the Taliban and al-Qaeda for attacks against US soldiers.
Kamin will be tried under the US military commissions set by US President George W Bush in 2006 if the charges against him are approved by Judge Susan Crawford, the convening authority for the tribunals.
Kamin is the 13th Guantanamo detainee to by charged under the commission. There are about 275 prisoners still be held at Guantanamo.
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That means 5 percent of the detainees are charged with crimes.What about the other 95 percent held in horrible circumstances and some of which have been tortured .Logically if they have not been charged ,I am not even talking of convivted,they are innocent and should have been released .The Bush administration is guilty of unlawfull conduct ,there is not one single iorganisation that condones in the human right abuses that holds 95 percent of detainees without even enough evidence to charge them of any crime .There simply is no excuse to keep them without enough evidence to convict them.
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TRUE JUSTICEMar 12th, 2008 - 22:43:46
Long drop + short noose.
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