'Child' Detainee Nears Military Trial

[unhappycamper]

'Child' Detainee Nears Military Trial
Knight Ridder | January 31, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon moved forward Jan. 30 with plans to try by military commission another Guantanamo detainee who was captured as a teenager in Afghanistan while fighting the U.S. invasion.

Mohammed Jawad, who is held in the prison camps as Detainee No. 900, allegedly lobbed a grenade inside a U.S. military vehicle carrying two U.S. Army sergeants and their Afghan interpreter in December 2002.

The move means Jawad, now 23, will likely be brought before a military judge at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba by early March to hear the charges. He could go on trial this summer.

Jawad is the fourth person charged under the latest formula for President Bush's post-9/11 war court, called military commissions. His name first surfaced as a trial candidate in October, when the Pentagon prosecutor swore out initial charges and the chief defense counsel assigned an Army reserves colonel to defend him at trial.

Defense Department documents say Jawad is an Afghan citizen, born in Pakistan, who had just turned 17 at the time of the attack. The four-page charge sheet said he would be tried for attempted murder as a war crime.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,161130,00.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. If he is an Afghan citizen, and was fighting in his homeland,

then he was a lawful combatant and is now a prisoner of war.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Let's not let the facts get in the way of the persecution

er, prosecution. Point is, he's one of them there Muslim folks, and we all know every one of them is a terrorist and should be forcibly converted to Christianity, the one and only true religion-but only the conservative brand of it, of course. :sarcasm: