sickening what we have become. I am so ashamed of AmeriKa....
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The tribunals in some cases rejected requests for witnesses or documents that detainees said would help prove their innocence.
Boudella Al Hajj requested a copy of a court document from Bosnia. The tribunal president ordered the document produced, but military personnel couldn't locate it, so the proceedings commenced without it.
A tribunal dropped an effort to find some documents requested by Mustafa Ait Idr after the detainee decided not to participate any further in the proceeding. Terminating the search "was within the tribunal president's discretion," the panel's legal adviser wrote.
Idr told the tribunal that soldiers at Guantanamo had broken two of his fingers and "put my head on the ground, and then another soldier came and put his knee on my face."
"There are a lot of things regarding the soldiers, but I won't talk about all of them," the detainee told the tribunal, which referred his and other allegations of mistreatment up the chain of command.
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On the Net:
Documents from court proceedings for many of the detainees are available at:
http://wid.ap.org/documents/detainees/list.html