Webloggin » Washington Post Helping the Prisoners Out at Gitmo

Now that the Supreme Court has thrown the Gitmo detainees into the US Judicial system I thought that any out of work lawyers out there might want to stop by the Washington Post. The staff at the post has teamed up with Alasra and CagePrisoners to publish a list of names and nationalities of the known detainees being held at the much maligned military facility.

From 2002 to May 2006, Washington Post researchers compiled the names and countries of origin of detainees in Guantanamo from unofficial, public sources: news accounts, legal documents (such as habeas corpus petitions and from the CSRT tribunals), interviews with attorneys and relatives, and information from detainee support sites on the Web. The Post printed only names that it had verified from a single reputable source or multiple sources. Some names were transliterated from Arabic or had alternative spellings. The collection was the largest list of names made public at that point, encompassing: more than 550.

Many names came from two Web sites that monitor the status of Guantanamo detainees: the Arabic-language Alasra and the Britain-based CagePrisoners. The two sites, which advocate the release of the detainees, have published lists of names, photographs and documents provided by families. Alasra is registered to an unknown individual in Saudi Arabia, and CagePrisoners is registered to a group of Muslim computer programmers based in Britain. [emphasis mine]

It is good to know that the New York Times and The Washington Post are there to help keep terrorists informed. Without such help I am sure that the terrorists would have to do their own research and spend their own money; and who would think of such a thing?

Thanks to the Times we can be assured that the money will go through different channels so there is no worry from the defense on that one.

Speaking of legal defense, the feds are seeking a secret jury in the Bridgeview Illinois terror case.

“The nature of the charges and the evidence supporting the charges are such to place jurors in reasonable apprehension for their safety,” prosecutors wrote. “The international reach and operation of the Hamas organization suggests that it has the capacity to harm jurors.”

The defense will argue that there is no threat by identifying the jury. However the feds claim otherwise.

in previous court filings, prosecutors have claimed there was at one point last year a campaign to intimidate a government informant who worshipped alongside Salah and his family at the Bridgeview mosque — an alleged indication of the possibility of jury tampering at trial.

I mention this because we will undoubtedly be facing the same issue with any Guantanamo detainees who make their way into the U.S. legal system. At that time we should look for the ACLU to request the identification of the jurors and the MSM to print the lists with addresses and nationalities.

Some things you hope will never come true, but…

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