Judge OKs Holding Taliban Cook At Gitmo

Source: AP via CBS

Federal Judge Rejects Kitchen Assistant's Release Because "An Army Marches On Its Stomach"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2009

... Al Bihani is a citizen of Yemen who lived in Saudi Arabia and went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2001 after a sheik issued a fatwa to fight with the Taliban against the Afghan Northern Alliance. He retreated with other Taliban forces after the U.S. began its bombing campaign in October 2001, and eventually surrendered along with other members of his unit and ended up at Guantanamo Bay in 2002.

The case, originally filed as Al Bihani v. Bush, has now automatically been renamed Al Bihani v. Obama since the prisoner claims the president and other military leaders are holding him unlawfully. One of Obama's first acts after taking office last week was to order the Guantanamo Bay prison closed within a year, but it's still undetermined how Al Bihani and the rest of the 244 detainees there will be prosecuted.

Leon said it isn't necessary to fire a weapon against the United States or its coalition partners to be considered an enemy combatant and that Al Bihani's service in feeding the forces is more than enough to fit the definition.

Leon read his ruling in a Washington courtroom with an Arabic translator, while Al Bihani listened on a teleconference from Guantanamo Bay. The line cut off before Leon could finish reading the last few sentences of his decision, including the line about Napoleon, but lasted long enough for Al Bihani to hear that he would not be released ...

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already. No soup for you bin laden!

Marijuana? LOL! I'm sure if they knew that the DEA would be over there in a heart beat.

How about the guy doing the laundry? I think a lot of these people will be released without any charges.

Or is it hummus?

when Steven Segal was allowed to remain a "cook" on that aircraft carrier? Well, this is THEIR "cook". Do you REALLY want to ignore him?

then Yoo is f*ckin TOAST!

If these guys don't join they will probably be killed. What the fuck are they supposed to do? And even if he did want to join and who wouldn't if their home was being bombed for nothing, he still doesn't deserve to be held anymore. I worked with someone years back who was from Afghanistan and he said one day he was walking to school and a truck pulled up and loaded all the boys in it to fight the Russians. He was lucky he had an uncle who got him out. They don't take no for an answer out there.

legal basis.."an army"