Abd al Hadi, Gitmo undergrad faces pretrial hearing

JAGC sends us some links to the story of Abd al Hadi and his pretrial hearing coming up next week. Hadi is a war criminal in the classical sense, what I mean is clear in the charges;

[Prosecutors] say he directed his forces to use a variety of unlawful means, such as attacking civilians, detonating car bombs and suicide vests in civilian areas, and videotaping the resulting deaths for propaganda purposes.

The charge sheet links Hadi and his forces to numerous attacks on U.S. military targets, several of them deadly, and to a failed plot to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the spring of 2002. It accuses him of paying a reward to the Taliban for assassinating a civilian United Nations worker in Afghanistan in 2003.

Hadi, who is 51 or 52, faces four specific charges alleging acts that violated international rules governing armed conflict. He could face life in prison if convicted by a tribunal of U.S. military officers at the Guantanamo base, where he has been held since 2007.

Specifically, Hadi is charged with “denying quarter,” by ordering his forces to kill all U.S. and allied forces on the battlefield, including the wounded, without accepting surrender or taking prisoners.

Hadi led the insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan and was sent to do the same kind of work in Iraq by Osama bin Laden. he’s also charged with trying to shoot down a medivac chopper that was clearly marked along with trying to take busloads of German and Estonian soldiers with car bombs.

Here’s a .pdf of the charging documents, if you’re interested in it.

Category: Terror War