Judge says Gitmo detainee Khalid Sheik Mohammed can use laptop

[LeighAnn]

Source: Guardian (UK)

Guantánamo guards must furnish confessed al-Qaida kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators with enough battery power to use their prison camp laptops 12 hours a day but the 9/11 accused can't surf the internet, a military judge ruled.

Judge Ralph Kohlmann, a Marine colonel, issued the decision a week ago. It turned up Sunday on a defence department web site, which under the ruling the men will not be allowed to see live.


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At issue of late has been what resources they get to prepare for the case inside a secret Guantánamo prison facility, called Camp 7, which is reserved for alleged terrorists who had earlier been interrogated somewhere overseas by the CIA.

"Reasonable access does not equate to a right or an entitlement to be placed on the same footing as a technologically state of the art law office," Kohlmann wrote in his three-page ruling.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/13/khalid-sheik-mohammed-guantanamo

[Ian David]

1. Yeah? Well, the joke's on HIM because it's loaded with Windows Vista! So, take THAT! n/t

[AlphaCentauri]

2. all the user restrictions will apply n/t

[OhioChick]

3. Good one!

:rofl:

[Larry in KC]

4. Obvious joke: Well, now he's one up on McCain!

[Sabriel]

5. What about Tetris? Minesweeper? Or...

Solitary?

You know what they say, if you treat one 9/11 accused like a human being with rights, you'll have to treat them all that way.