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The U.S. and Europe -- including Britain -- are headed for a major
rift unless one or the other will decide to change course in the short
term. It all arises from the Bush Administration's plan to try 6
detainees at military tribunals which could yield a death sentence.
Even Blair's normally friendly government may not be so friendly if
the tribunals are conducted as the Blair government expects they will
be.

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US and Europe set for clash over terrorist trials
By Jimmy Burns and Jean Eaglesham in London and Hugh
Williamson in Berlin
Published: July 4 2003 20:02
Last Updated: July 4 2003 20:02

The US faces another damaging diplomatic row with Europe over
its decision to try six suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in
secretive military tribunals.

The European Union's executive commission warned - on Friday
- that applying the death penalty to any of the suspects
detained at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba would risk
undermining international support for the US-led war on
terrorism.

[......]

The UK, America's closest ally in the war on terror, said it
would raise its objections with the US government at the
"highest level" after it emerged that two of the six are
British citizens.

Foreign office minister Baroness Symons said London would
pursue a "very vigorous discussion" to satisfy its concerns
that US procedures may not guarantee a fair trial. "I think
there are issues about the principle of using military
commissions," she told BBC Radio.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1514&u=/afp/20030704/wl_mideast_afp/us_attacks_trials_030704185123&printer=1

Britain voices fears over US military trials for terror
suspects
Fri Jul 4, 2:51 PM ET

[......]

The Foreign Office confirmed that Moazzam Begg, 35, from
Birmingham in the English Midlands, and Feroz Abbasi, 23,
from south London, were among six people designated Thursday
by US President George W. Bush as eligible for trial.

[......]

British junior foreign minister Elizabeth Symons said [...]
"It isn't something we would be able to do in this country,
because of course we would want to ensure that there is a
separation between government on one hand and the judiciary
on the other.

"However, the Americans have said that this is the way they
are intending to proceed and it now behooves on the
government to vigorously pursue the issues about access to
lawyers, about standards of evidence and about any appeals
procedure."

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**** the British. USA #1

b. nice

If the USA is coming to stand for capture without provocation, imprisonment
without being charged, trial without jury and execution without appeal, then
the USA is no longer the USA.

So **** you.

-b