:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 7.30.2004 ::
:: "First Review of Guantanamo Prisoner Set" ::
AP report July 30, 2004 04:23 PM EDT
WASHINGTON - For the first time in the nearly three years since the Sept. 11 attacks, a prisoner picked up as a potential terrorist and held nearly incommunicado at a Cuban prison got a chance Friday to persuade his jailers that he should go free.
The U.S. military said it had scheduled a hearing Friday afternoon into whether the Navy is properly holding an unidentified prisoner as an "enemy combatant." The hearing was closed to the press and the public. The Pentagon said it expected no immediate word on the outcome.
The hearing, the first of about 600 inquiries the Pentagon plans to hold over the coming months, is the government's most visible response since a groundbreaking Supreme Court ruling last month on behalf of about 600 foreign-born men held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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