Eager to make an example of alleged terrorists the Bush administration is designing a ‘new legal doctrine’ where they would be able to try terrorist suspects in a military tribunal without any evidence!
From the NY Times article:
Another official said the new approach would allow military prosecutors to charge some captives even without evidence from witnesses or documents that they committed war crimes.
“It could be enough to show that they were part of a group and furthered its aims,” this official said.
“They would be shown,” the official said, “to be a part of a group that did things like killing civilians and noncombatants, attacked targets with no military value or took or killed hostages” — the traditional roster of war crimes. “Also engaging in torture,” the official said.
The US is guilty of killing civilians and noncombatants, attacked targets with no military value or took or killed hostages in Afghanistan. Who will make an example of them?