He is being granted due process of law. In a military tribunal. Abassi is lucky he wasn't just executed on the spot, Islamic style - instead he'll be legally represented and given a fair trial. Maybe he'll be acquitted, or maybe he'll get to become the shahid he always wanted to be.

The detention of prisoners in Guatameno Bay defies belief. The attitude of the British Government seems to be one of apathy and an unwillingness to act. I wish success to all those that take on the challenge of justice for those held there and hope you know that there are many who support your campaign.
It seems more and more that the life and alledged freedom of an American is so much more important than those of other countries- particualry islamic. This is institutîonlised racism of which the Amercian and English governments are guilty of.

reap what you sow,i support tony blair and george bush,god is judging.ys mexican dave

Secret military tribunals are not a "fair trial" - Abassi has not been charged with any crime, therefore he is innocent until proven otherwise, but even aquittal in this Stassi Court does not guarantee release from Concentration Camp Delta.

This is a message for all you guys who believe that concentration camps and extra-judicial executions are somehow "justified" in prosecuting the "War on Terror".

Once upon a time, the local head of police in Munich decided to place certain categories of persons in "protective custody", for the good of society. The authorities built a nice new holiday camp for these people in the suburbs and surrounded it with an electric fence. It was in a place called Dachau. Ten years later, six million people were dead.

I don't care if they capture Bin Laden himself. He still has to be given a fair trial. Otherwise we are no better than the Nazis. It wouldn't matter so much if politicians never told lies and policemen never fitted up suspects. But politicians do tell lies and cops fit up suspects all the time. Kidnapping suspects, holding them incommunicado for months at a time and denying them basic human rights (access to a lawyer, a jury trial) might perhaps indicate that the U.S. has no evidence against these men.

Even if these guys were in the Taliban, what does that prove? There are plenty of world leaders who are former members of organisations designated as "terrorist". I think we should be outside the U.S. embassy when the "trial" starts, or maybe even outside the Foreign Office. How shameful that our own government would rather sell us out so that Bush and his oil buddies can make a fast buck in Afghanistan.