This is a CROCK of BOLOGNA. 
Americans are you that naive and that gullible - that ignorant of the truth and the facts?
NO Habeas Corpus... NO witnessses...  NO Evidence...  NO Jury...  Kidnapped...  7 Years of Torture, mental and physical, isolation and abuse...
What have we done to ourselves... as people... as a nation? What happened to Truth and Justice?

 
-Laura, whereabouts
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U.S. to televise Guantanamo trials to 9-11 families

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those
killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland.
"We're going to broadcast in real time to several locations that
will be available just to victim families," Army Col. Lawrence Morris,
chief prosecutor for the controversial war crimes court, said at the
naval base recently.
In February, military prosecutors charged Mohammed and five other
captives with murder and conspiracy and asked that they be executed if
convicted of plotting to crash hijacked planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
No trial date has been set but they are the first Guantanamo
prisoners charged with direct involvement in the attacks that killed
nearly 3,000 people.
Morris said several of the victims' relatives asked to watch the
trials at the detention center set up in Guantanamo Bay naval base to
try foreign terrorism suspects.
The base sits on a dusty patch of the island of Cuba and does not have many flights, beds or courtroom seats to accommodate spectators.
The trials will be beamed to closed-circuit television viewing sites
on military bases at Fort Hamilton in New York, Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Devens in Massachusetts, Morris said.
The military is borrowing a page from the civilian court sentencing
hearing of Zacarias Moussaoui, a flight school student who is the only
person convicted in the United States in connection with the September
11 plot. He pleaded guilty to conspiring with al Qaeda and was sentenced to life in prison.
U.S. federal courts normally ban cameras. But through an act of Congress, Moussaoui's 2006 court hearing in Virginia was shown by closed-circuit television to victims' families at courthouses in Boston, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
"We got much more information from those hearings than we ever got from the 9-11 Commission,"
said Lorie Van Auken, whose husband Kenneth died in the World Trade
Center, referring to the investigation the U.S. Congress launched into
the attacks.
FAIR TRIALS OR SHOW TRIALS?
Some of the victims' relatives praised the U.S. military for ensuring they had access to the Guantanamo proceedings.
Hamilton Peterson, whose father and stepmother, Donald and Jean
Peterson, died on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, called the
prosecutors "true patriots," and said he was grateful for "the ability
to see justice being fulfilled in one of the most significant attacks
on America's heartland."
Others urged the trials be televised nationwide without restriction because of the sweeping impact of the attacks.
The broadcasts will mark the first time a Guantanamo detainee's face
has been shown publicly. The U.S. military prohibits journalists and
other visitors from taking photographs or video that shows faces,
citing a provision of the Geneva Conventions that aims to protect war
captives from "insults and public curiosity."
The U.S. military lawyer assigned to defend Mohammed, Navy Capt. Prescott Prince, said if the
trials are truly fair, then broadcasting them widely would prove that
to the world. But he worried about setting a precedent by televising
what he suspects will be show trials.
"I can just imagine American soldiers and sailors and airmen being subjected to similar show trials worldwide," he said.
He said he doubts the defendants can get a fair trial in the
Guantanamo court because it accepts hearsay evidence that may have been
obtained through cruel and dehumanizing means. The Geneva provision cited in shielding prisoners' faces also bans "acts of violence or intimidation," he noted.
The CIA held Mohammed in a secret prison for years and
acknowledged interrogating him with methods that included the simulated
drowning technique known as waterboarding.
Some of the victims' relatives also said they thought the
trials should be held in a regular court, open to the public and using
only "evidence that's above reproach."
"This is not about revenge, it's about justice," said Valerie Lucznikowska, a New Yorker whose nephew Adam Arias died in the World Trade Center.
"I don't want it to be a lynching. I'm concerned that people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, we won't be able to find them guilty because of what we've done with them. It's a horrible
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