UK MP Slams Government over Guantanamo Ahead of Trial

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran interviews Peter Kilfoyle in Liverpool.
Judge Refuses to Postpone Trial of Bin Laden's Driver
Published: July 17, 2008
A federal judge on Thursday refused to postpone the first military trial set for next week at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, rebuffing a last-minute plea from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, an accused member of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's former driver.
Judge James Robertson, of the district court in Washington, ruled that Mr. Hamdan's claims that the military commission he faces is unconstitutional can be appealed to a civilian court only after his military trial is completed.
The ruling clears the way for the start of the first trial of a detainee at the prison complex in Cuba, opened in 2002 to hold prisoners captured in the campaign against terrorism. The trials have been delayed for years, in part by courts that found legal fault with the commissions created to try people designated by the government as "unlawful enemy combatants."

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I feel bad for that 16 year old kid... he's a victim of war, a child soldier, not a war criminal.