Report: US may allow Guantanamo detainees to plead guilty

Washington - The Obama administration is considering a proposed change in the law governing military commissions for detainees at Guantanamo that would allow them to plead guilty without a full trial, the New York Times reported Saturday. The change would apply to detainees who face the death penalty, and would spare military prosecutors from having to reveal controversial interrogation techniques, the Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, last year declared he wants to become a martyr and hopes he receives the death penalty. The military tribunal at the time also indicated it could allow Mohammed and four other detainees charged with the attacks to reject the court-appointed military defence lawyers and plead guilty. US President Barack Obama has pledged to close the controversial US Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by early 2010, but is running into problems that range from questions about the credibility of evidence obtained under duress to the question of which US states and other countries are willing to accept them. About 245 detainees remain at the facility.

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SP4: gollyJun 8th, 2009 - 14:46:37

...that sure is big of us, eh?

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SP4: Now we knowJun 8th, 2009 - 22:12:37

...Obama is morbidly afraid of one of these chuckleheads getting a death sentence.. He's crapping himself at the prospect of having to face all the world's dickheads and his total embarrassment, or, worse, having to pardon a terrorist, after everything that has transpired. No wonder he wants to shove this out the door.

Bush'd fry em...and then give the world the finger.

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sp'sassJun 9th, 2009 - 13:18:18

Yeah, America has become the US of Atheists. A nation controlled by effeminite, fanatic libnazi weaklings. It's time for all true patriots to rally round the flag down in the good ol country of Texass. Palin for president of the Lone Star Nation.

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