A Navy officer, center, and two Army officers enter Camp VI at the detention center at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Walter Michot / Miami Herald / MCT / August 6, 2012)
NPR: Guantanamo Judge Rules Tortured Prisoner Could Get Reduced Sentence
A judge at the U.S. military court in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has ruled that a prisoner there may be entitled to a more lenient sentence if he was tortured in CIA custody. The decision could potentially apply to several of the other 40 remaining prisoners there, including five men facing charges in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The ruling by Col. Douglas K. Watkins came in the case of Majid Khan, who in 2012 pleaded guilty to helping finance the 2003 bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, that killed 11 people. Khan has been held in captivity for more than 17 years, and he alleges he suffered egregious mistreatment during his imprisonment.
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WNU Editor: No one knows what that reduced sentence means. If it is significant, there will be blowback.
4 comments:
We are back to Waterboarding. I think we should release there people to the Hamptons or Marthas Vinyard, or Hollywood.
My personal favorite would be Marthas Vinyard because the ex lives there and we could maintain not for the islanders but for the rest of us.
Was there any reduce sentence for the journalist or any American captured by these terrorists? No they cut their head!
I'm not overly concerned about what these things have experienced when compared to what they have handed out to the rest of the world's citizens.
Still I oppose torture only because of studies which show methods other than torture are more effective. These studies came out of Vietnam at least, if not before, and have continued to be produced since with the same results; torture is not as effective as other methods.
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