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Pentagon Manual Allows for Prisoner Executions at Guantanamo

WASHINGTON, January 19, 2007 — The Defense Department has drafted a manual for trying prisoners and even executing them on the basis of hearsay evidence or coerced testimony at the Guantanamo naval base the US maintains on illegally-occupied Cuban territory.

According to a copy of the manual obtained by AP, a terror suspect's defense lawyer cannot reveal classified evidence in their defense until the government has had a chance to review it.

The manual, sent to Congress on Thursday and scheduled to be released soon by the Pentagon, is intended to track a law passed last fall in which lawmakers restored President George W. Bush's plans to have special military commissions try terror suspects.
Those commissions had been struck down earlier in the year by the Supreme Court.

From Berlin, DPA news service reported that Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish-German who spent four and a half years at Guantanamo, recounted Thursday the odyssey he lived in captivity to a commission of the German parliament.

Kurnaz gave details about the physical and psychological abuse he suffered in the hands of the US military, which included the use of "knockout" gas and being chained for 12 hours a day. (Cubaminrex-Granma)

 

 

 

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