Lawyer: Gitmo Detainee in US Wants Military Lawyer
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/09/world/AP-CB-Guantanamo-Terror-Trial.html
June 9, 2009
Lawyer: Gitmo Detainee in US Wants Military Lawyer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Pentagon-appointed attorney for a Guantanamo
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/09/world/AP-CB-Guantanamo-Terror-Trial.html
June 9, 2009
Lawyer: Gitmo Detainee in US Wants Military Lawyer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:21 a.m. ET [Obama white house] [bush white house] [nsc principals] [thence to bureaucracy for implementation] [shortly after 9/11 designation of combatants as “enemy combatants”] [attempts to circumvent the Geneva Accords and U.S. Constitutional protections] [federal courts] [111th Congress, 1st session] [gitmo issues] [more on the enhanced-interrogation techniques] [Tanzanian accused of Africa embassy attacks] [finally prosecuting some of these guys—hear, hear] [***]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Pentagon-appointed attorney for a Guantanamo detainee moved to the U.S. for trial says his client wants to keep his military lawyers.
Marine Col. Jeffrey Colwell tells The Associated Press he is traveling from Washington to New York in hopes of staying on as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's defense counsel. Colwell says he has been meeting with the detainee since August and they have ''a good working relationship.''
Ghailani is to be arraigned Tuesday for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
He is the first detainee from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be transferred to the United States under an Obama administration plan to prosecute some of them in the federal court system.
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