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2010-08-12 Home Front: WoT

Gitmo Jury Recommends 14 Years For Al Qaeda Cook

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Posted by Sherry 2010-08-12 10:30|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "He's a really bad cook."

Posted by mojo 2010-08-12 11:00|| 2010-08-12 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2
So when his sentence is up he'll no longer be a muslim, right?

Right?

I think I hear crickets...

Posted by Parabellum 2010-08-12 16:37|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-08-12 16:37|| Front Page Top

#3 they try and make it sound like this guy didn't know what the hell was going on. Just a cook I bet he had a weapon though. As I remeber and this is not comparing our guys too theirs by any means at the Battle of the Bulge cooks and just about anyone else that couls hold a rifle fought the Germans off.

Posted by chris 2010-08-12 19:28|| 2010-08-12 19:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems like most of the ones who have been released - because they were the least dangerous or guilty - have turned up back in the war, blowing stuff up. Can this guy be any less bad? Airlift him back to A'stan and drop him off at 35,000 feet.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-08-12 19:30|| 2010-08-12 19:30|| Front Page Top

#5 they try and make it sound like this guy didn't know what the hell was going on. Just a cook I bet he had a weapon though. As I remeber and this is not comparing our guys too theirs by any means at the Battle of the Bulge cooks and just about anyone else that couls hold a rifle fought the Germans off.

Even if he was wielding a weapon, he's just a grunt; according to the Geneva Conventions, you can't try the other side's grunts for being soldiers on the other side and making war on you.

If you _want_ to argue that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to the likes of him... well, there's a legal procedure for handling that, but you have to charge him with being an unlawful combatant first.

I find it strange and disquieting that an administration that has gone to such great lengths to accuse everyone else of cruelty is going ahead and sentencing someone to prison time for being a cook.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-08-12 20:23|| 2010-08-12 20:23|| Front Page Top

#6 15 years is a harsh sentence for a servant who happened to chose the wrong employer.

Posted by phil_b 2010-08-12 22:03|| 2010-08-12 22:03|| Front Page Top

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