Khadr judge fired, says his military lawyer

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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.
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Kuebler's news release also included an email sent Wednesday by lead prosecutor Maj. Jeff Groharing, which complained of numerous delays in trial proceedings


Lemme see if I have this right.

This kid joins al queda and goes to a terrorist camp in Afghanistan. What exactly he did in that camp , did he throw a grenade were the soldiers lying ... is up in the air. But he wasn't there to learn ping pong so it's pretty much a given he's a terrorist.

A court is set up to try him and people like him. But it's kept out of the United States, it's kept off in a little corner by itself where the only laws that count are the ones the USA feels like abiding by this week but that could change at any time. Might be abiding by different ones next week.

And this whole camp system was set up by people who don't like these terrorists too much so they're pretty much inclined to find everyone and the dog guilty of all the crimes they're accused of.

Some Judge comes along, a REAL Judge, from a REAL court where there are actually REAL laws to follow, decides the prosecution is having just too much fun , and they gotta get serious and treat this like a real case and quit messing around with the evidence and give the defence it's chance to , you know, actually defend this kid.

So the prosecution complains. And the REAL judge is removed.

I do not defend Khadr. He's obviously as guilty as sin and as black a terrorist as they come. You don't volinteer to cross to the other side of the planet and leave the comforts of your home to learn to play ping pong in the middle of a terrorist training camp, after all.

But this Kangaroo court business is just getting silly here. No one has any respect for the so called "judgements" of that internment camp anymore.

And the way they act, no one should.