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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 10:17 AM
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Censors put limits on Guantánamo photos
Source: Miami Herald

Pity the photographer who takes a picture of five tents in a row at "Camp Justice.''

Or two whole tents and slivers of two others.

Under the latest rules for ''operational security,'' there's now a three-tent rule for photos the public can see of the tents that house journalists and support staff at the expeditionary legal compound, where reputed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators are due to get their first taste of military commission justice June 5.

... So Tuesday morning, U.S. forces were reading from a fake script of a trial of a fictional war on terror detainee named Abdul Khadr of Yemen during a daylong equipment check.

... But by afternoon the war court script was gone and guards were back in their places, reciting lines from the 1988 Hollywood hit Big -- the Tom Hanks tale of a boy who makes a wish and suddenly finds himself living the life of a man.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/545576.html
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 12:32 PM
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1. They were rehearsing a trial script for a fictional Khadr for conspiracy!!? Lucky nonfictional Khadr
(who is charged with conspiracy) is not going to an amateur kangaroo court: he's going to a professional kangaroo court!
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