"Judge orders 17 freed from Guantanamo; Says Chinese Muslims can live in the US" by William Glaberson, New York Times News Service | October 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration yesterday to immediately release 17 Chinese Muslims and allow them to stay in the United States, ruling that they are no longer considered enemy combatants.
Maybe they could get an APOLOGY. too!!!
Federal District Judge Ricardo Urbina called the detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of the 17 prisoners - ethnic Uighurs, a restive Muslim minority in western China - unlawful, saying the Constitution prohibits indefinite imprisonment without charges.
Go GET 'EM, Judge!!!!!
Efforts to find a home for the detainees have been complicated by fears in many countries of diplomatic reprisals by China. In June, federal appeals judges issued a decision that ridiculed as inadequate the Pentagon's secret evidence for holding one Uighur, Huzaifa Parhat, a former fruit peddler who said he had gone to Afghanistan to escape China.
That is the WORST of the WORST, as Don Rumsfeld said?
Since then, the Pentagon has conceded that it would "serve no useful purpose" to continue to try to prove that any of the 17 Uighurs was ever an enemy combatant.
Yeah, especially since they NEVER WERE!!! And yet, they were imprisoned for SEVEN YEARS!!!!
The government argued that the 17 detainees should be held at Guantanamo until another country could be found to accept them.
Why not LET THEM STAY HERE like the JUDGE SAYS?
In filings, the Justice Department lawyers argued that while Urbina could hear the Uighurs' case, he could not order their release because the judiciary "simply has no authority" to do so. --more--"
Well, MAYBE THEY SHOULD!!!!!!
Here are a couple of add-ons the Globe edited out, readers:
“I think the moment has arrived for the court to shine the light of constitutionality on the reasons for the detention,” Judge Urbina said.
Yes, yes, BY GOD, yes!!!!!!!!!
The judge ordered the 17 detainees, all of whom are men, brought to his courtroom next Friday, but the government suggested that it would immediately appeal the ruling, and that perhaps immigration officials might detain the men on their arrival in the United States.
Now WHY would the Globe want to edit THAT?
Or this?
The judge reacted angrily, saying he did not want the detainees molested by anyone in the government, in what he called an urgent matter.
Oh, I AM LOVING THIS GUY!! Give 'em HELL, judge!!!!!!
He rejected a request from the Justice Department for a stay of his orders, suggesting that he was impatient with the government. On Tuesday, the Chinese government demanded that all Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay be repatriated to China. --more--"
WTF, Globe? Why did you hack this piece to ribbons?
Good Lord, readers. HOW MANY OTHER THINGS are they either HIDING or OBFUSCATING????
