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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held 3.jpg[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held 2.jpg[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held 1.jpg[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held.jpg[edit]

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File copyright problem with File:Image said to be Predator drone aircraft at Shamsi Airbase in Pakistan -- no longer available on Google Earth..jpg[edit]

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Nomination of September 11, 2002 for deletion[edit]

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Image tagging for File:Mohammed Hagi Fiz and Jan Mohammed in 2002-12.jpg[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Taliban bounty flyer.jpg[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Taliban bounty 3.jpg[edit]

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Wikiversity[edit]

I've seen that you've come into conflict with the Wikipedia community several times about some of your articles. Have you considered moving the verifiable, but arguably non-notable, content to a research project on Wikiversity ? You'll get credit there for what's treated here as a chore to clean-up. --Simone (talk) 11:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ramzi bin Alsibh at Guantanamo.jpg[edit]

I have tagged this image to be a canidate to be copied to Commons. If you feel if the file is not free you can respond me to my talk page and explain the reason. Good luck! --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 00:50, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried sending an email to the red cross to clarify the copyright status of a similar image. I got no reply. A red cross image of KSM was uploaded to the commons, challenged, and eventually deleted.

As I see it the intellectual property rights to the Red Cross either belong to the Red Cross, or to the Red Cross employee who took them, or, possibly, when the Red Cross gave the images to their intended audience, they passed on all the intellectual property rights.

As I understand it, the images that have been republished all came from the family members.

In my experience commons people have little patience for arguments based on guessing what the copyright owner would want.

We have some pictures from Omar Khadr's family album. The first two images, one when he looked about 8, and another post puberty, were very widely republished. But we didn't know where they came from. Eventually we heard from his sister. Those images had been handed out to reporters, without taking names, or asserting any conditions.

Personally, I thought that was tantamount to putting the images in the public domain. But others didn't agree. Khadr's sister seemed mystified by our concerns. But she did finally explicitly place all the images in to the public domain. I think that, in the long run, would be a similar statement from binalshibh's family, or lawyer.

But I have no objection to you trying to promote it to the commons, just please keep an eye on when to restore it here if it is deleted from the commons.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 01:39, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So, do not copy to commons becuase this work is not from the US? Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 00:58, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am afraid the exact owners of the intellectual property rights are not clear, and the terms (if any) they specified when they allowed the images to be republished would have to be guesswork. I am pretty confident that someone on the commons would challenge the images on that grounds.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 01:56, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi GeoSwan. You seem quite clued up on all this and I don't really understand the criteria for inclusion or deletion. So I am writing to you to ask if you could explain please for me. A discussion has been bouncing around about the usage of a similar photo of Khalid Sheik Mohammedwith the exact same issues. Most recently here: [1]. Do you know what the status is with these Red Cross arranged photos? I have recently uploaded this one [2] (again?).

Also the one of KSM all dishevelled [3] seems to me to be a WP:MUG infringement. Is there a way to get that deleted from the picture library? If so do you know how does one go about that?--Mystichumwipe (talk) 07:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are two alternate sets of templates for asserting that images qualify for inclusion as "fair use". The most commonly used pair are {{Non-free use rationale}} and {{non-free fair use in}}. You can see I put a "no" for the low resolution field. There are some contributors who may regard that as the wrong answer. Geo Swan (talk) 21:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to the exact copyright status of the images taken by the Red Cross, I am afraid I don't know. I made an attempt to contact the Red Cross spokesman who spoke about these iamges, through email, and got no reply. could have tried other email addresses, or snail mail. I suspect the images could be considered public domain, and that we are too cautious. But we have to go by consensus. Geo Swan (talk) 21:26, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to WP:MUG, to the best of my knowledge, there is no equivalent Commons:Mugshot.

There is a {{delete}} template on commons that guides one through the nomination process. Rather than MUG, you could consider asking whether it should be deleted as a violtion of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Tht 4th Convention, signed after ww2, protects everyone in a warzone, even war criminals. They are not only protected from torture, they are protected from public humiliation. That video of a medic checking a disheveled Saddam Hussein for head lice was a violation of the GC.

I am not that familiar with the use of MUG.

Good luck! Geo Swan (talk) 21:44, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Terrorism - Welcome Back![edit]

Welcome back from Wiki Project Terrorism! I'm Katarighe, a Wikipedian member since 2009. I'm currently the successor of Sherurcij in September because, he has not edited Wikipedia using this account for a considerable amount of time since May 2010. We are trying to renovate the new WP page this fall 2011 and we look forward this month whats next. If you are interested, start the renovation with us and new awards on contributing terrorism are coming soon. The WP terrorism newsletter begins January 2012. See you on October for the updates on WP terrorism. I will send this message next month about the updates. Good Luck.

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Guantanamo military commission[edit]

I'm going to tackle the Guantanamo military commission article. Can you give me list of forked or related articles? Besides the list of Guantanamo_military_commission#See_also, I only know of the stub listed at the end of the discussion page Office of Military Commissions. Btw, that comment (Talk:Guantanamo_military_commission#Redirecting) has got a point, GTMO MC is basically colloquial. Military Commissions redirects to Military_tribunals_in_the_United_States, while Military Commission redirects to Military justice. A mess.

There is a [new website] for Military Commissions that should be taken advantage of. Mnnlaxer (talk) 15:24, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:Geo Swan/Individuals who faced charges before Guantanamo military commissions

You are absolutely correct that the article needs a lot of work, and updating.

I'll share a bee in my bonnet first. Some people see three major changes to the Guantanamo military commission system

2004?	original Presidentially authorized military commissions, ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in Hamdan v. Bush
2006	Congressionally autorized military commissions, authorized by the Military Commissions Act of 2006
2009	Congressionally autorized military commissions, authorized by the Military Commissions Act of 2009

But the greatest change to the military commission system were made following the hush-hush forced resignation of Fred Borch, the first chief prosecutor in the summer of 2004. As originally constitued the Presiding officer was the first among equals, and got to vote on the guilt or innocence, as well as making rulings on the admissability of evidence, and so on, and lead the commission. There were a larger number of commission members. Borch promised the prosecutors who worked under him that their job wouldn't be difficult, as all the exculpatory evidence would be classified, and withheld from the suspects and their defense team, and the that all the commission members would be handpicked so they would be sure to convict. No, I am not making this up.

I haven't looked into the most recently announced changes, they too may be significant.

I'll list the linked articles in groups, Geo Swan (talk) 20:15, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OMG. Give me the weekend to reply in full. Mnnlaxer (talk) 21:44, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is great work. A solid base to work from. I've been commenting on the Awlaki killing since Friday, will get back here and dig in soon. Mnnlaxer (talk) 20:06, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

working on other (smaller) projects. Will return eventually. Mnnlaxer (talk) 06:26, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

articles linked to from Guantanamo military commissions[edit]

articles that cover some aspect of the commissions[edit]

Office of Military Commissions
Unlawful combatant MCA 2006 only authorized the commissions to try "unlawful enemy combatants", apparently congressman overlooked that the CSR Tribunals only determine if the captives were "enemy combatants"
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld SCOTUS
Ex parte Quirin a precedent
Federal tribunals in the United States
Arthur Raymond Randolph wrote the majority opinion for the D.C. Circuit in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Legal Advisor (Office of Military Commissions)
Cass Sunstein senior government lawyer who asserted the presidentially authorized commissions were constitutional
Director of Operations, Planning and Development for Military Commissions
Military Commissions Act of 2006
Military Commissions Act of 2009

articles about lawyers or other administrative staff who worked for or at the commissions[edit]

John D. Altenburg first "convening authority
1. Convening authority (court-martial)
Susan J. Crawford convening authority
Bruce MacDonald (American lawyer) convening authority
Wendy Kelly director of operations of the Office of Military Commissions
Andrew Williams (US Navy lawyer) resignation speculated to have been due to extreme bullying by Thomas W. Hartmann
Thomas W. Hartmann an advisor to the Convening Authority
Michael Chapman former deputy to Hartmann promoted to replace him
Director of Operations, Planning and Development for Military Commissions face saving position created for Hartmann when his abusive behavior caused him to be barred from involvement in three cases

Presiding officers[edit]

Chief prosecutors[edit]

other prosecutors[edit]

military defense attorneys[edit]

other defense attorneys[edit]

Robert D. Rachlin
Andrea J. Prasow
Karl R. Thompson helped defend Guantanamo captives -- later appointed to the Office of Legal Counsel

habease attorneys who aren't also defense attorneys[edit]

evidence related[edit]

Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

articles about individuals who faced charges before the military commissions[edit]

Ibrahim al Qosi
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
David Hicks
1. Guantanamo: My Journey
Ammar al-Baluchi
Omar Khadr
1. Maher Arar -- that Khadr had met Arar was part of the justification for trying Khadr
2. Jeffrey Groharing -- Khadr's prosecutor
  1. MaryAnne Sapio -- Khadr's prosecutor's wife, a former Miss California
Salim Hamdan
1. Abdullah Tabarak Ahmad -- his role in OBL's staff was discussed at Hamdam's commission
2. Daryl Matthews -- a Psychiatrist who was going to testify at Hamdan's commission
Binyam Mohamed -- was tortured, so he may not be recharged.
1. Dirty bomb -- Binyam Mohamed was once accused of playing a role in a trumped "dirty bomb" plot.
Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah
Jabran al-Qahtani
Sufyian Barhoumi
Ghassan al-Sharbi
Ramzi bin al-Shibh
Mohamedou Ould Slahi -- Prosecutor Stuart Couch quit due to Slahi's torture.
Ahmed Ghailani -- transferred to NYC for a civilian trial
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Walid bin Attash
Ali al-Bahlul
Abdul Zahir (Guantanamo Bay detainee 753)
1. Kathleen Kenna was one of the victims of a grenade attack Zahir was allegedly involved in...
Obaydullah
The Faisalabad Three
Tariq al-Sawah
Noor Uthman Muhammed
Mohamed Jawad
1. Randall Schmidt retired senior officer who was scheduled to testify on Jawad's behalf
Ahmed al-Darbi
Mohammed Kamin
Ali al-Bahlul
Mustafa al-Hawsawi
1. Jon S. Jackson Mustafa al-Hawsawi's military lawyer
2. Montasser el-Zayat has been tasked to defend Mustafa al-Hawsawi

articles about individuals who have been the subject of speculation about charges...[edit]

articles that link to Guantanamo military commissions because they are related[edit]

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Buffalo Six
Abdullah Khadr
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
George W. Bush's second term as President of the United States
Abdul Rahman al-Amri -- died in custody shortly before the commissions were reinstated
Guantanamo Bay detention camp suicide attempts -- observers have noted most death occurred shortly before the military commissions recommenced
Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists
Military tribunals in the United States
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Competent tribunal
Matthew Diaz -- a lawyer at Guantanamo who leaked a list of captives in 2005
Vijay Padmanabhan -- prominent lawyer who criticize the Military Commissions
John Hutson -- prominent lawyer who criticize the Military Commissions
Talat Hamdani -- mother of a heroic muslim first responder who died during 9-11 -- was invited to be a civilian witness to the commissions.
Jonathan Beale -- BBC reporter who has covered the commissions

unsorted[edit]

YGM[edit]

You've got mail. Risker (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]