Guantanamo move puts US on trial

[Say_What]

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WASHINGTON - The United States' announcement on Friday that six of its foreign captives in its "war on terrorism" are eligible to be tried before military tribunals - where they could potentially be given the death penalty - appears likely to annoy some of its strongest allies, especially the United Kingdom.

The announcement came just as the administration of President George W Bush has begun mending fences damaged by the US war in Iraq in hopes that other countries will contribute peacekeepers to Washington's troubled occupation.

Reports that two of the six to be tried are British citizens captured in Afghanistan prompted expressions of concern over the weekend from London, where Prime Minister Tony Blair has been battered by weeks of controversy over whether he misled the British public about the imminence of any threat posed by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

The London Observer reported on Sunday that Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, will ask his US counterpart, Secretary of State Colin Powell, to repatriate the two men, rather than to permit them to be tried by a US military court whose procedures, according to US and international human-rights groups, do not meet minimum due-process standards and which is empowered to impose the death penalty.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/EG09Ag01.html

[NYC]

1. according to US and int'l. human-rights groups, do not meet minimum

due process standards...

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in the world.

[bushisanidiot]

2. International Criminal Court, Amnesty International, Red Cross

Bush doesn't 'do' focus groups, remember? He's right, the world is wrong and we're all gonna die.

[indepat]

3. Wonder if we will be convicted in the court of world

opinion?