Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't.

Guardian (UK) ^ | 6/30/06 | Declan Walsh

[FreedomFighter78]

The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.

Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid, a former Afghan police commander accused of plotting against the United States, to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal. As was his right, Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan.

But months later the tribunal president returned with bad news: the witnesses could not be found. Mr Mujahid's hopes sank and he was returned to the wire-mesh cell where he remains today.

The Guardian searched for Mr Mujahid's witnesses and found them within three days. One was working for President Hamid Karzai. Another was teaching at a leading American college. The third was living in Kabul. The fourth, it turned out, was dead. Each witness said he had never been approached by the Americans to testify in Mr Mujahid's hearing.

The case illustrates the egregious flaws that have discredited Guantánamo-style justice and which led the US supreme court to declare such trials illegal on Thursday in a major rebuke to the Bush administration. Mr Mujahid is one of 380 Guantánamo detainees whose cases were reviewed at "combatant-status review tribunals" in 2004 and 2005. The tribunals were hastily set up following a court ruling that the prisoners, having been denied all normal legal rights, should be allowed to prove their innocence. Ten of the hearings proceeded to full trials, including that of Osama bin Laden's aide, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who brought the successful supreme court appeal.

[AntiGovernment]

The Guardian is pure trash. They make up facts out of thin air, usually to discredit conservatives and conservatism. I have read many OUTRIGHT LIES in this trashy newspaper.

And of course they believe a Muslim. He wouldn't be engaged in deception, would he? To defame the 'great Satan', the enemy of all Muslims and of the child-raping 'prophet' Mohammed?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Oh, darn. Now they have the witnesses, but the Supreme Court says he can't have a tribunal now, so I guess it's back to the hunger strikes at club Gitmo.....