Khadr judge fired, says his military lawyer

[CHIMO]

Source: CBC News

The U.S. military judge presiding over the trial of Canadian terrorism suspect Omar Khadr has been fired, said Khadr's lawyer.

In a news release issued Thursday, Lt.-Cmdr. William C. Kuebler said the judge, Col. Peter Brownback, was replaced after threatening to suspend proceedings in the case earlier this month.

Brownback told prosecutors they had to provide Khadr's defence lawyers with records of his confinement at the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or he would suspend the proceedings.

Kuebler, Khadr's U.S. military-appointed lawyer, said he learned Brownback had been fired in an email from the chief judge of the U.S. military commissions, Col. Ralph Kohlmann.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/29/judge-khadr.html

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You are either with us or against us. Seems quite simple. But guess it only is understood by simple minds.

[angstlessk]

1. well, hells bells there is a way to get the trial done before the elections...fire

everyone who puts up any obstacles and full steam ahead..only a few more dark skinned people..who cares????

[saigon68]

2. Kangaroo Justice

Thanks to Gangster Cheney and his puppet the "Awol Chimpanzee"

[Supersedeas]

3. where the hell is the US Media and the Bar Assocs around this country

[buckrogers1965]

4. Talk about a joke trial

This is worse than the show trials that the commies used to do.

I didn't even know that you could fire a judge during a trial for ruling against a prosecution motion.

[damntexdem]

7. At least the Soviets ran their show trials competently.

The Bushista show trials resemble nothing so much as FEMA's response to Katrina.

[struggle4progress]

5. The Decider's adoptin th'attitude towards judges of his Pakistani pal Mushy

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

twisted and warped

[TrogL]

8. Dubya wants a terrorist conviction before he leaves office

Khadr seems to him to be the best candidate although it's becoming less and less apparent that he actually did anything except be there. Based upon such flimsy evidence, prosecution is going badly.

[TaffyMoon]

9. "Canadian terrorism suspect Omar Khadr", AND CHILD....

He was 14 when they locked him up.

[Trillo]

10. Impeach!

Zzzzzz-- "Sorry," says the brave mob in the Legislative Branch entrusted with curbing the Kingly excesses of the Executive Branch, "That's Off The Table! Try again."

From: http://www.usconstitution.net/declar.html

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.