Posted on 09/28/2009 8:49:35 PM PDT by Red Steel
WASHINGTON (AP)— A federal judge has ordered the release of a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay and rebuked the U.S. government for relying on scant evidence, uncredible witnesses and coerced confessions to hold him for more than seven years.
In an opinion declassified Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said government attorneys presented a “surprisingly bare” record during four days of classified hearings last month to oppose Fouad Al Rabiah’s request for release from the U.S. naval detention facility in Cuba. She said the aviation engineer is being held almost exclusively on confessions obtained through abusive techniques and that his own interrogators repeatedly concluded were not believable.
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She called the coerced confessions “entirely incredible” and said they “defy belief.”
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Uh oh, Bummer on the warpath again
Another moron judge who does not understand the concept of a POW.
The folly of trying to reduce an act of war to a crime.
The USSC has given her little choice
If Colleen wants to fight the War on Terror, we need to stuff her fat ass into a set of BDUs, give her an M-16 and ship her off to Iraq or Afghanistan. If she is not willing to do that, she needs to stick to doing whatever the hell it is that “judges” do these days.
Henceforth, every Army and Marine platoon (hey, Seabees as well) in Afghanistan will be required to deploy with a trained CSI officer who will be responsible for collecting evidence against any jihadi who is captured.
The platoon CSI officer will also be responsible for reading the jihadi his Miranda rights.
Further, the platoon CSI officer shall collect evidence and recommend charges against any United States military personnel who may have violated any of the rights of the jihadi.
In any proceeding, the jihadi shall have the right to be represented by the mullah of his choice at the expense of the United States.
This is common practice for career women who marry.
I am not very hard on this judge because she has soldiered on well through her share of non-moonbat cases, and because USSC precedent has sharply limited her options. She might well want to chuck it out of court but she can’t now, she has to treat it like a crime (thank you Justice Kennedy).
I tend to agree with you. I don’t think the judge had much choice and the possibility Obama’s DOJ sabotaged the case can’t be dismissed out of hand.
I’ve been trying to find some info on the circumstances of Fouad al Rabiah’s apprehension, but no luck yet. He was one the people participating the phony flush the Koran down the toilet claims however.
I guess if you can’t question them and can’t detain them, then just shoot them if circumstances justify that.
I think the White (or is it Rat?) House has picked a “propaganda case” to send to a court. They’ve been letting these guys go right and left, and if the situation is as stated I don’t know why else Bummer bothered to challenge it.
According to an assertion on his wikipedia page he was captured at a checkpoint in Jalalabad while fleeing with the Taliban during the fall of their regime in 2001.
A Kuwaiti engineer in Jalalabad? Look at the map! Of course he is a terrorist. What a jerk this judge is! This is why the Courts should have no business in this Dirty War.
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