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SATURDAY December 20, 2003 - Subscribe - Contact Us Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels December 10, 2003 If court rules for detainees, Bush must reconsider The Bush administration is finally beginning to resolve the fate of the prisoners held in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It is overdue. Published accounts say that more than 100 - one account says 140 - will be released in December and January to their home countries. ... The administration has insisted that neither U.S. laws nor international treaties, such as those governing prisoners of war, apply to the detainees, and it has asserted its right to hold them indefinitely and largely incommunicado. That assertion has outraged world opinion and badly damaged the United States' reputation as an upholder of the rule of law and a champion of due process. Many of the prisoners, most of them captured in Afghanistan, have been in custody since January 2002... The Supreme Court just recently agreed to hear an appeal on behalf of 16 of the detainees- two Britons, two Australians and 12 Kuwaitis- seeking the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts. If the court finds for the detainees, the administration will lose its rationale for running Guantanamo as it does. - News Chief, Winter Haven, Fla. DailyTidings.com Home Page Valley&State | Backpage | O&E | Sports | Archives | Weather | Classifieds Columnists | Faith&Beliefs | Obituaries | Revels | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2003 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Road Cams