Thursday 7 August 2008

Guantanamo Bay Trials

"It would be as if the Nuremberg Trials opened with the prosecution of Hitler's driver, someone who by the way was never charged, and who died of old age in his own bed."

Some time ago the Pentagon agreed to human rights group sending their observers to the Guantanamo Bay trials. Here is an informative account by one of them, Ben Wizner.

Hearteningly, the vast majority of commentators to the New York Times article covering this sorry affair are appalled by it.

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