9-11

The Dutch politician Geert Wilders will be in New York today, protesting the building of a mosque close to ground zero.

He does not speak for me, or for the majority of the Dutch.
Truly, seriously, honestly, absolutely NOT.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Bush today:

"America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates, and religious activists."
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America, yesterday:

A jury of six U.S. military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of supporting terrorism but cleared him of conspiracy Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.

The Pentagon-selected jury deliberated for about eight hours over three days before returning its split decision against Salim Hamdan, who held his head in his hands and wept when a Navy captain on the jury read the verdict.

The jury reconvened hours later for a sentencing hearing in the hilltop courtroom on this U.S. base in southeastern Cuba. Hamdan, who is from Yemen and is about 37, faces life behind bars, though it is unclear where he would serve his time.

Defense lawyers had feared a guilty verdict was inevitable in the first war-crimes trial since the aftermath of World War II, saying the tribunal system's rules were designed to achieve convictions.

"I don't know if the panel can render fair what has already happened," Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer, Hamdan's Pentagon-appointed attorney, said as the jury deliberated.

But the Bush administration said Hamdan enjoyed a zealous defense and called the verdict fair.
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He really leaves me speechless.
The whole situation around the USA does...

How can they possibly hold this trial?

How can they possibly justify holding a trial by military tribunal over the 9-11 attacks??? With people who have been imprisoned without representation for so many years! Who were interrogated without any kind of oversight.
At least one of them were waterboarded, it was admitted. Who knows, what has not been admitted yet...

I swear, it totally cheapens the lives of all the people who died on that day or afterwards, as a result of that terrible attack.
It's so offensive, it's worthy of a banana republic, this kind of justice.
Not of the USA.

I get so mad when i read this kind of thing
It's propaganda, nothing more.

One official who has been briefed on the case said the military prosecutors were considering seeking the death penalty for Mr. Mohammed, although no final decision appears to have been made.

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Yes. That is the Mr. Mohammed that they admitted to have subjected to waterboarding.

Offensive is too good a word.