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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...999-601,00.html
Another islamoterrorist was mastermind of Bali bombings.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hearings set for Hambali, 9/11 plotter</b>
March 07, 2007
March 7: THE US will begin closed-door hearings at Guantanamo Bay this week for 14 high-value prisoners including suspected Bali bombings mastermind Hambali and alleged September 11 plotter Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
The Pentagon said today the initial hearings will begin on Friday for the 14 men transferred to the Cuban military prison camp from secret CIA jails.
No reporters or other outside observers such as defence lawyers would be allowed to attend the hearings to determine whether the men were enemy combatants.
Interest in the 14 is particularly high because of their alleged links to the al-Qaida network.
The Indonesian known as Hambali is accused of planning the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.
"We will commence with the combatant status review tribunals for the 14 high-value detainees that came into DoD (Department of Defence) custody in September, commencing this Friday," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters.
"We will provide transcripts, with necessary redactions for national security, to you so that you can follow the proceedings that took place."
The prison camp at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay holds about 385 suspects accused of fighting for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban or associated Islamist militant movements.
Indefinite detention and allegations of mistreatment at Guantanamo, which the US military denies, have tarnished the image of the US abroad. Many countries, including US allies, have called for the camp to be closed.
Lawyers for some of the Guantanamo prisoners said in an appeal to the US Supreme Court yesterday that the suspects had been unlawfully detained for more than five years and deserved at least a hearing to challenge their confinement.
They argued a US appeals court was wrong in a ruling last month that upheld a key part of an anti-terrorism law sought by President George W. Bush that took away rights of the prisoners to challenge their detention before US federal judges.
Australian terror suspect David Hicks, 31, has been charged with providing material support for terrorism.
It is expected he will make his first appearance before the military commission at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, late this month.
Hicks has been in US custody for more than five years after being picked up on the Afghanistan battlefield in December 2001.
It is alleged Hicks trained and fought with al-Qa'ida against US and coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Reuters, AFP<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Interesting that it took this long for these terrorists to confess - yet not under duress... If so, wouldn't they have done that on day 1 of their being apprehended? After all, these guys know they are the ones who did it.
They're not like regular criminals who end up admitting to their crimes when they see that the evidence the law has against them is overwhelming.
Because in this case, the criminals are international terrorists who care nothing for the law. So it's not like they're going to arbitrarily wait until the opposition finally marshals enough evidence for a case against them, that they then say: 'okay, enough. I did it.' In reality, they'd either have gloated over the kaffirs they victimised early on itself, or are admitting to it now under torture or other coercion.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...999-601,00.html
Another islamoterrorist was mastermind of Bali bombings.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hearings set for Hambali, 9/11 plotter</b>
March 07, 2007
March 7: THE US will begin closed-door hearings at Guantanamo Bay this week for 14 high-value prisoners including suspected Bali bombings mastermind Hambali and alleged September 11 plotter Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
The Pentagon said today the initial hearings will begin on Friday for the 14 men transferred to the Cuban military prison camp from secret CIA jails.
No reporters or other outside observers such as defence lawyers would be allowed to attend the hearings to determine whether the men were enemy combatants.
Interest in the 14 is particularly high because of their alleged links to the al-Qaida network.
The Indonesian known as Hambali is accused of planning the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.
"We will commence with the combatant status review tribunals for the 14 high-value detainees that came into DoD (Department of Defence) custody in September, commencing this Friday," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters.
"We will provide transcripts, with necessary redactions for national security, to you so that you can follow the proceedings that took place."
The prison camp at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay holds about 385 suspects accused of fighting for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban or associated Islamist militant movements.
Indefinite detention and allegations of mistreatment at Guantanamo, which the US military denies, have tarnished the image of the US abroad. Many countries, including US allies, have called for the camp to be closed.
Lawyers for some of the Guantanamo prisoners said in an appeal to the US Supreme Court yesterday that the suspects had been unlawfully detained for more than five years and deserved at least a hearing to challenge their confinement.
They argued a US appeals court was wrong in a ruling last month that upheld a key part of an anti-terrorism law sought by President George W. Bush that took away rights of the prisoners to challenge their detention before US federal judges.
Australian terror suspect David Hicks, 31, has been charged with providing material support for terrorism.
It is expected he will make his first appearance before the military commission at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, late this month.
Hicks has been in US custody for more than five years after being picked up on the Afghanistan battlefield in December 2001.
It is alleged Hicks trained and fought with al-Qa'ida against US and coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Reuters, AFP<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Interesting that it took this long for these terrorists to confess - yet not under duress... If so, wouldn't they have done that on day 1 of their being apprehended? After all, these guys know they are the ones who did it.
They're not like regular criminals who end up admitting to their crimes when they see that the evidence the law has against them is overwhelming.
Because in this case, the criminals are international terrorists who care nothing for the law. So it's not like they're going to arbitrarily wait until the opposition finally marshals enough evidence for a case against them, that they then say: 'okay, enough. I did it.' In reality, they'd either have gloated over the kaffirs they victimised early on itself, or are admitting to it now under torture or other coercion.