Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantanamo Trial

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Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantanamo Trial

In an alleged victory for the Military Commission trial system for terror suspects at Guantánamo, revived by President Obama last year despite the fact that he suspended the Commissions on his first day in office, a Sudanese prisoner, Ibrahim al-Qosi, accepted a plea bargain yesterday, and made a guilty plea on one count of conspiracy and one count of providing material support to terrorism.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/08-0

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Stacy Sullivan, a senior counter-terrorism advisor for Human Rights Watch, said, "He's a cook who served as a driver and possibly a bodyguard, Can you imagine if, during Nuremberg, they prosecuted cooks and drivers? It didn't happen. They consider the fourth conviction in eight years a victory?" She also noted, as the Miami Herald explained, that al-Qosi's "accusations of abuse, including that he was wrapped in an Israeli flag and subjected to loud music, was not mentioned in court," and nor was there any mention of claims made in 2005 by Lt. Col. Sharon Shaffer, who was assigned to represent al-Qosi at the time, who "characterized his treatment as possibly torture but certainly inhumane treatment; he was held in stress positions for protracted periods, subjected to military dogs and sexually humiliated."

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"[c]iting two anonymous sources who read the plea agreement," reported that he "agreed to a maximum of two more years in prison before he is sent home to Sudan."
Congrats to him, at least there is an end in sight now.



Iglesias also said that al-Qosi "admitted to knowing personally, helping him and was willing to follow him around. He was somewhere between a foot soldier and less than a general. We are not talking about robbing a 7-Eleven in Hialeah. [B]We are talking about war crimes."

So knowing somebody and "helping" them is a war crime?

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Congrats to him, at least there is an end in sight now.


So knowing somebody and "helping" them is a war crime?

HEHE

War Crimes
Honest Politician
Military Intelligence

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Whoooopdeyyy friggin dooo