Ex-Gitmo Lawyer Wants Immunity to Talk

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Ex-Gitmo Lawyer Wants Immunity to Talk
September 26, 2008
Miami Herald

Sep. 26--GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A renegade war court prosecutor refused to testify without a grant of immunity Thursday on why he abruptly resigned from a terror trial in the latest controversy at the Guantanamo military commissions.

Army Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld said in a sworn affidavit that he quit rather than prosecute the case of a young Afghan captive, in part because he believed evidence helpful to the accused might never be disclosed.

Mohammed Jawad, captured as a teen, is accused of throwing a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their interrogator in a bazaar in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2002.

Jawad's military judge, Army Col. Stephen Henley, sought Vandeveld's testimony -- live, via link from Washington, D.C.

His successor, prosecutor Air Force Lt. Col. Doug Stevenson, replied that Vandeveld sought a grant of immunity against criminal prosecution to testify.


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