A Pentagon official overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes court dismissed all pending charges against five prisoners on Tuesday, including a British resident accused in a radioactive "dirty bomb" plot.
The Defense Department gave no reason for the action and said the charges had been dismissed without prejudice, meaning they could be refiled later.
But it came after the U.S. government declined to pursue the dirty bomb charges in a Washington court case challenging the detention of Ethiopian-born British resident Binyam Mohammed as an "enemy combatant."
Mohammed had said repeatedly that he falsely confessed to the plot while he was tortured in a Moroccan prison.
The Pentagon appointee overseeing the Guantanamo tribunals, Susan Crawford, dropped all charges against Mohammed, Saudi Arabian captives Jabran al Qahtani and Ghassan al Sharbi, Algerian prisoner Sufyian Barhoumi, and Sudanese captive Noor Uthman Muhammed, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Qahtani, Sharbi and Barhoumi were accused of plotting to build remote-control detonators for car bombs to be used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Muhammed was alleged to have been an al Qaeda training camp instructor.
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Let us all be carefull and aware of what it means to be a terrorist.That way we avoid the accusation.We are loosing a lot of privileges because of the label we acquired as being against Woyane which somehow is being viewed as being a terrorist throughout industrialized nations .If all of us updated ourselves on the issues regarding this Kinijit would have not joined Gambella Liberation Front which in turn resulted in being listed among the terrorist group of the world by the United States Of America Department Of State.It was a wrong and desperate move taken by the so called Diaspora kinijit family when the Kinijit family was under major attack after the election.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Elias,
Is Binyam Mohammed an Ethiopian or Eritrean?
His last name obviously concludes that he is Muslim but his first name is an Ethiopian/Eritrean Christian first name.
Some websites state he is Ethiopian and others state he is an Eritrean.
Which one is he?
October 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm