Court blocks judge's order to free Chinese Muslims (at WH request)

Nambe

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Wed Oct-08-08 07:33 PM
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Court blocks judge's order to free Chinese Muslims (at WH request)

Source: The Associated Press

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a judge's decision to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo Bay into the U.S.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued the emergency stay Wednesday at the request of the Bush administration so that government lawyers can prepare an appeal.

It comes after U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina (ur-BEE'-nuh) on Tuesday ordered the government to free the detainees by Friday. Urbina said it would be wrong for the Bush administration to continue holding the detainees, known as Uighurs (pronounced WEE'gurz), since they are no longer considered enemy combatants. ...

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/oct/08/court-blocks-judges-order-to-free-chinese-muslims/

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Gillian

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Wed Oct-08-08 07:48 PM
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1. Heavily armed knuckle dragger vs Ancient Civilization.

Sad.

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balantz

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Wed Oct-08-08 07:53 PM
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2. And there are still people who argue that Bushco is limited in what they can do.

They have their people everywhere. Eight(+) years to place their friends in positions all over this country.

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54anickel

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Wed Oct-08-08 08:03 PM
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4. Now there's a somber thought. They could be anywhere and everywhere, nearly impossible to

unweave them all. :grr:

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Canuckistanian

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Wed Oct-08-08 08:00 PM
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3. Bastards

They STILL manage to subvert justice, even as they clumsily stagger for the exit door.

I imagine they'll tie this up for another few months.

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Triana

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Wed Oct-08-08 08:40 PM
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5. bu$ht didn't appoint judges to the DC Circuit for nothing - they were put there to cover his ass...

Edited on Wed Oct-08-08 08:41 PM by Triana

...and that's what they're doing. Three of them were appointed by him.

EDIT: Two of them by his father, and two more by Ray Gun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit

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balantz

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Wed Oct-08-08 09:26 PM
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6. It's all part of the coup that has been planned and set up for decades.

And here we are.

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Frank Booth

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Wed Oct-08-08 09:57 PM
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7. Uighurs are about the least fanatical Muslims in the world.

It's a shame that these poor people have been locked up like this all these years, and it's a black mark on our country.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Wed Oct-08-08 11:19 PM
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9. Probably a favor to his buddies in China

Got to keep those loans coming and those sweatshops humming, you know.

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REACTIVATED IN CT

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Thu Oct-09-08 09:20 AM
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10. That's exactly what it was n/t

Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 09:26 AM by REACTIVATED IN CT

Here's a link to the testimony given by one of their lawyers at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on this matter

http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/110/gil050608.htm

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ksimons

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Wed Oct-08-08 11:07 PM
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8. Bush: fast on covering his ass, slow on helping the country - Republican Gold Standard

nuff said about that

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Supersedeas

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Thu Oct-09-08 03:23 PM
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11. Mukasey laughs in the face of Justice

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