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| British Court to Hear Taliban Suspect |
| 2002-07-01 |
| Lawyers for a British Taliban suspect detained by the United States won an important legal step Monday in efforts to force the British government to get involved in the case. Attorneys say 22-year-old Londoner Feroz Abbasi has been denied the right to see a lawyer, despite requesting one when he spoke with British intelligence agents who visited him at the U.S. Navy's detention center on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Abbasi's lawyers accuse the British government of failing to protect his rights. The Court of Appeal agreed Monday to a full hearing on the claim. The ruling reversed a High Court decision three months ago which said that British courts didn't have the power to intervene in a foreign policy matter. Abbasi is one of five Britons among more than 500 prisoners captured in Afghanistan and then transferred to Guantanamo. He has been detained since January but has not been charged with a crime. That's because he's a prisoner of war, or the closest we're going to come to it in this war. Guantanamo is a POW camp. These goobers were eager enough to run off and kill infidels last year, so what's their beef with the consequences? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |