Who do you want answering the phone at 3 am?Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday.
"This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency.
The comments were the latest signal that Moscow intends to project its military capability in far-flung corners of the globe despite a tight defence budget and hardware that experts consider in many respects outdated.
Zhikharev indicated that Russia was looking only at occasional use of the facilities -- not setting up permanent bases in the region.
He noted that the Venezuelan constitution prohibited establishment of military bases of foreign states on Venezuelan territory and described the Russian possible use of the facility there as "we land, we complete the flight, we take off."
Zhikharev said Cuba had a several air bases equipped with the long runways needed by the heavy bombers and said the facilities there were "entirely acceptable" for use by the Russian aircraft during long-distance patrols.
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The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/us/10gitmo.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Since 2002, 61 former detainees have committed or are suspected to have committed attacks after being released from the detention camp, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said
WASHINGTON, 24 September 2005 -— The 550 foreign detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the US government, are just being stockpiled there until they die, charged the American lawyer of 11 Kuwaiti citizens there in an exclusive interview with Arab News.
“The government is warehousing them at Guantanamo until they die,” said Kristine Huskey.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=70604&d=24&m=9&y=2005
Kristine Huskey said:“It’s so easy to say that they are terrorists and that terrorists don’t deserve rights, but because they were never given rights to begin with, like the right to a fair trial for instance, how did we reach the decision that they are even terrorists?”
Detainees have no constitutional rights, they are not US citizen.The war is still going on.
Since when do you have war trials while the war is still going on?
The winners of the war put the losers (enemy) on trial.
Trials are for "War crimes" Wasn't Hitler bombing
of London a "War Crime"?
Nuremberg Trial Were for "War Crimes".
Japan had war crimes for Bataan Death March in
the Philippines.
Japan:"Rape of Nanking" in China.
Japan: Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in Russa.
And more "War crimes"
February 20, 2008 Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the treatment of prisoners....
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/tuttle
No, this was not Germany or Japan in WW2 and it was not Viet nam holding US prisoners. And it was not Abe Lincoln or FDR. No this was an American "journalists" about Gitmo.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Under the new policy, suspects would be held in accordance with the international laws of war. Only individuals who "substantially supported" al-Qaeda, Taliban or "associated forces" would be considered detainable.
Maybe Obama should call them "misunderstood forces".
Maybe he should give them a pat on the head and
say it is not their fault. Blame it on their mother.
Did Obama get permission from the ACLU.
Weak...........................
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