#1 Since the only thing they did "wrong" was to wage war on infidels, I can't seem them getting anything more than a suspended sentence or perhaps one lash in Saudi Arabia. That assumes that they aren't granted amnesty outright.
Sorry, but the Geneva Convention says we can hold them until the end of hostilities. Since the hostilities are likely to go on for many, many years, we can't let them go soon. We would like to try them with military tribunals, but our Supreme Court says we can't. So we will have to wait until Congress passes a new law, and the Supreme Court rules on that before we can have trials. By the time all of this gets settled, the prisoners will probably die of old age.
Of course, the tribunals could hand down death sentences, as prescribed by the Geneva Conventions. But at least then the Saudi prisoners wouldn't have to endure the agony of not knowing their fates. |
AELLBERG, Sweden - Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States said on Friday Saudi citizens detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre should be allowed to return to their homeland to face trial there. Attending a conference on globalisation, Prince Turki Al Faisal said Saudis incarcerated in the centre for suspected links to terrorist organisations should be delivered to Saudi Arabia. “If there are any crimes that they have committed they will be tried in Saudi courts and face punishment for those crimes,” he told AFP.