"YOU! pose with soldier, or you will be shot! Do as you told! do not think, only do as told!"...Its a sad day to know that Communists still take a disater and turn it into a photo op. To make the world believe they ALWAYS cared for there ppl...It only shows that alot of these ppl were as poor as poor gets, with no help from the awesome powerful regime. They only show there 'COMPASSION" at a time of need...Rest assured, there will be plenty more photo ops of soldiers helping...Helping to keep ppls mouths shut about what really happens to them when the are against the old, outdated, always failed communist ways.
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Hartmann insists justice will be served at Guantánamo. "I will stand by my goal to make these cases fair, transparent and just," he tells NEWSWEEK. And he disputes each of Davis's points: "I never said 'blood on their hands.' Those are the words that were used by the prosecutors, not by me." Though he says he favors open trials, Hartmann says people must expect that some secret evidence will be used in the Gitmo courts. "If you [wait to] declassify every piece of evidence that's going to be used in these cases," he says, "you might never have a case." Hartmann refuses to explain the decision to cancel the indictment against Qahtani, but says the Saudi could be charged again down the road. (Davis says separating Qahtani from the trial of the other five conspirators in the 9/11 attacks—who allege they were tortured by the CIA—might help the prosecution avoid the "cumulative impact of too much bad-treatment evidence." A CIA spokesman says, "The CIA neither conducts nor condones torture.")
Astonishing as it may seem, in nearly seven years since the 9/11 attacks only one Guantánamo detainee—Australian David Hicks—has been convicted, and only after a plea bargain in which he accepted a nine-month sentence. Davis believes if none of the September 11 conspirators are put on trial by November, the military-commissions process is dead. "All three presidential candidates want to close Guantánamo," he says. "A trial in progress is the only thing that might prevent it." Historians and legal experts will be assessing what went wrong for years to come. Davis has his own explanation: "I think if you combine excessive arrogance and excessive ignorance, you wind up 78 months later where we are in this process." You wind up nowhere good.
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