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Washington Post
October 29, 2008
Pg. 6
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A Guantanamo detainee's confession to Afghan police was obtained through torture and cannot be used as evidence in his trial, a military judge ruled. The detainee is charged with wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade.
High-ranking Afghan officials threatened to kill Mohammed Jawad and his family members unless he admitted to throwing the grenade that wounded the soldiers and their Afghan interpreter at a bazaar in Kabul in December 2002, Army Col. Stephen Henley found.
Such a threat, Henley ruled, met the definition of torture under the rules of the Guantanamo military commissions
The ruling casts further doubt on the wobbly case against Jawad, who is scheduled for trial at Guantanamo on Jan. 5. The military prosecutor in the case quit last month, alleging that the U.S. government was suppressing evidence that cast doubt on Jawad's guilt.
October 29, 2008
Pg. 6
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A Guantanamo detainee's confession to Afghan police was obtained through torture and cannot be used as evidence in his trial, a military judge ruled. The detainee is charged with wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade.
High-ranking Afghan officials threatened to kill Mohammed Jawad and his family members unless he admitted to throwing the grenade that wounded the soldiers and their Afghan interpreter at a bazaar in Kabul in December 2002, Army Col. Stephen Henley found.
Such a threat, Henley ruled, met the definition of torture under the rules of the Guantanamo military commissions
The ruling casts further doubt on the wobbly case against Jawad, who is scheduled for trial at Guantanamo on Jan. 5. The military prosecutor in the case quit last month, alleging that the U.S. government was suppressing evidence that cast doubt on Jawad's guilt.