GUANTANAMO

Gulfnews: Playing favourites with prisoners

What is going on in Guantanamo? Two British detainees were granted exemption from the death penalty and now an Australian has also been spared from possible execution. It seems that justice – or what passes for it in America – is not blind to the nationalities of the suspects.

It was President George W. Bush who stated that "these are bad people", without any suspect there being found guilty of any crime. Remembering that it is proposed to have these alleged criminals tried in a military court, for the Commander-in-Chief of the American armed forces to make such a comment, prior to the trial, does not augur well for the prisoners.