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Gitmo Defendants Given My Lai Massacre Film

Trials of 9/11 accused delayed for another 60 days

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 22, 2009 4:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the 9/11 attacks asked for and were given copies of a film about the My Lai massacre, Reuters reports. The Guantanamo war crimes court was told during a hearing yesterday that Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley, a 1975 courtroom drama about the Vietnam War killing of civilians by US soldiers, was supplied to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants, along with other films including National Geographic specials on Mecca and the Vatican.

The defendants asked for the My Lai film to help them prepare their defense, a prosecutor said. A military judge delayed the prisoners' trials for another 60 days at yesterday's hearing to give the administration more time to decide where to try them, infuriating victims' families who had travelled to Guantanamo. "We are just damned disgusted with the whole business," said one man whose son died when a hijacked plane hit the Pentagon. "We need some justice. We need it now."

Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., is seen at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1971 during his court-martial for the My Lai Massacre.
Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., is seen at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1971 during his court-martial for the My Lai Massacre.   (AP Photo/Joe Holloway, Jr.)
Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was given a copy of a film about the My Lai massacre, a court was told yesterday.
Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was given a copy of a film about the My Lai massacre, a court was told yesterday.   (AP Photo/www.muslm.net)
Alleged Sept. 11 co-conspirators sit with their legal teams in the courtroom during a hearing at  Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba in this courtroom sketch.
Alleged Sept. 11 co-conspirators sit with their legal teams in the courtroom during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba in this courtroom sketch.   (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)
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brawne
Sep 22, 2009 9:56 AM CDT
No amount of justice makes up for a child that is abruptly gone. If you want to spend your time on revenge, well that is a better feeling than the empty sad place of loss. But, you eventually have to go there. You can boil every last person in Gitmo and you'll still have to feel that loss when they are all gone. Get your justice--believe me, you will wish that you were still chasing it. If people knew the unbearable pain that you eventually have to live with every day when your child is dead--no one would have any. And call Colin Powell for your My Lai info since he was the captain in the Americal Division who worked so hard to keep it secret. What--you think his advancement came from nothing? Grow up. They disbanded that division because it was so nasty. I was in Benning during that trial. What a farce. This was a company of American soldiers who twirled babies on their bayonets. Don't you fuck wipe right ass holes who have no idea about that war was even about open your stupid mouths. We should never have a draft and we should never fight an enemy of insurgents. Other than that there's nothing to say here. I'll post my nice father's photo that he sent with a few ears around his neck after Da Nang. You have no idea the horror that place was and what it turned people into. Fuck those Gitmo guys. What does an 18 year old boy who can't dodge the draft and sees his best friend handed a grenade in a bunch of flowers by a five year old girl have to do with terrorism? Fuck!!!
Mia
Sep 22, 2009 5:41 AM CDT
stalker say what
BlahBlahBlah
Sep 22, 2009 4:13 AM CDT
When can I write my novel to rebut your novel?

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