Obama's First Gitmo Military Tribunal

Gitmo is of major concern to all of us. I see it as a fringe experiment in the alleged collective democratic entity called the USA.

The experiment has to do with developing a new set of standards and terminology to deal with the terrorist. The definition of terrorist is also percolating within the minds of government justice department people. The goal line for that definition shifts as the goals of the state solidify from time period to period.

CS Monitor: First Guantánamo military tribunal under Obama gears up

A military judge on Monday ruled that self-incriminating statements made to US interrogators could be admitted as evidence in the war crimes trial of an Al Qaeda operative accused of murdering an American soldier in Afghanistan.


Facing trial is Omar Khadr for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that killed a US special forces soldier and partially blinded another after a firefight near Khost, Afghanistan, in July 2002.


Mr. Khadr was 15 years old at the time. He denies throwing the grenade.