Iraqi court rulings stop at US detention sites

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - In the eyes of Iraqi justice, Yahya Ali Humadi is a free man.

To the U.S. military, he's another of the detainees in yellow jumpsuits held at the sprawling Camp Bucca in southern Iraq.

Humadi — ordered released nine months ago after an Iraqi judge dropped all charges — now spends his days in a legal limbo. It's one that has confronted and confounded thousands of other Iraqis since 2003 who have been freed by their nation's courts but remained in U.S. custody.

"I don't know why the U.S. army brought him to an Iraqi court, if they intend to keep him for an unlimited time," said Humadi's lawyer, Samiya al-Baghdadi.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080517/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_locked_in_limbo_1

[ToughLuck]

1. Because Bush says so, that is the only reason, and the hypocrisy lives on.

Sad joke, makes me want to scream when Bush says Freedom for Iraq!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. are we the Soviet Union yet?

So is America going to keep Iraqi's and others not accused of anything specific as long as the Russians held some German prisoners?