Obomba says K S Mohammed to be tried in Gitmo!

[outsider]

The Obama regime has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for his [alleged] role in the attacks of Sept. 11 before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and not in a civilian courtroom.

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703806304576242763782267 924.html

[TonyGosling]

Holder, Obama and the Cowardly Shame of Guantánamo and the 9/11 Trial
5.4.11 - Andy Worthington
Since May 2009, when President Obama first bowed to Republican pressure on national security issues, and abandoned a plan by White House Counsel Greg Craig to rehouse on the US mainland a couple of cleared prisoners at Guantánamo who were at risk of torture if repatriated, it has been apparent that no principles are sufficiently important to the administration that officials won’t jettison them the moment that critics start howling.
After this first success with the cleared prisoners — blocking entry to the US for the Uighurs, Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province, who had been cleared for release by a US court — Republicans, and, to a lesser extent, dissenters within Obama’s own party, realized that the power to shape national security issues was in their hands, particularly when the magic word “Guantánamo” was invoked.
As a result, when a young Nigerian, apparently recruited in Yemen, tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day 2009, and the critics howled that no Yemenis in Guantánamo should be released, the President didn’t point out that this was unacceptable, and was, moreover, a call for him to endorse a policy of “guilt by nationality.” Instead, he immediately capitulated, imposing a moratorium on the release of Yemenis from Guantánamo that still stands 15 months later, and that, single-handedly, undermined the President’s own promise to close the prison....
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/04/05/older-obama-and-the-coward ly-shame-of-guantanamo-and-the-911-trial/

[TonyGosling]

Hang on I thought Guantanamo Bay was cloed down two years ago when Obama came to power? Wasn't that one of the main promises of his entire 'yes we can' election campaign?

[Wakeymedia]

Wow!

A military trial at a place which no longer exists.

Babylon is going Quantum . . . hang on to your hats

[outsider]