Pentagon fires detainee judge after he chastised prosecution. His bad
Tsk. Tsk. The judge apparently was not with the kangaroo court program. Too bad our boys keep dying for such freedom, hunh?
Pentagon fires Khadr judge
Col. Peter Brownback replaced after chastising prosecution
Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Court drawing of Omar Khadr, who is currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.Janet Hamlin/CBC/for Canwest News ServiceCourt drawing of Omar Khadr, who is currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
NEW YORK -- The U.S. Pentagon abruptly replaced the military judge in the Omar Khadr case yesterday after he chastised the prosecution at a recent Guantanamo Bay hearing.
The chief judge of the war crimes commission that is to try the Candian accused of terrorism announced the change in an e-mail to a senior official.
The e-mail made no mention of army Colonel Peter Brownback, who has presided over the war crimes commission that will prosecute Mr. Khadr, 21, at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, but said simply that Colonel Patrick Parrish, another army officer, is "hereby detailed as military judge in the case."
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Pentagon fires Khadr judge
Col. Peter Brownback replaced after chastising prosecution
Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Court drawing of Omar Khadr, who is currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.Janet Hamlin/CBC/for Canwest News ServiceCourt drawing of Omar Khadr, who is currently imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
NEW YORK -- The U.S. Pentagon abruptly replaced the military judge in the Omar Khadr case yesterday after he chastised the prosecution at a recent Guantanamo Bay hearing.
The chief judge of the war crimes commission that is to try the Candian accused of terrorism announced the change in an e-mail to a senior official.
The e-mail made no mention of army Colonel Peter Brownback, who has presided over the war crimes commission that will prosecute Mr. Khadr, 21, at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, but said simply that Colonel Patrick Parrish, another army officer, is "hereby detailed as military judge in the case."
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