Guantanamo Bay Detainees Finally Charged

Photo from source, Guardian

For the entirety of the "War on Terror" we've held detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with no charges. Civil libertarians have been complaining for years that these people deserved due process. The Bush Administration (and their supporters) have maintained that these prisoners of war were terrorists, and so the rules were different. Of course with no charges, no due process, there was no proof that all of the detainees even were terrorisrs to begin with.

Now, all these years later, six of the detainees are finally being charged. You have to wonder what the delay was, and why they're being charged now. And what may have been lost by waiting for years to even get the process started. And, of course, we will not get to see everything (or much of anything) that goes on.

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US charges Guantánamo detainees with 9/11 murders

The US today charged six Guantánamo Bay detainees with murder and war crimes in connection with the September 11 attacks and said it would seek the death penalty if they were convicted.

The men are set to be the first detainees brought before a military tribunal in Guantánamo Bay over the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. . .

Read more at: Guardian