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By James Carroll | Monday, May 26, 2008 | The Boston Globe

“…Tomorrow a number of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay will finally get their day in court – although, alas, not literally. Thirty-five Americans who were arrested at the US Supreme Court last January during a demonstration protesting the illegal detention center will go on trial in Washington. They are charged with “causing a harangue.” Instead of entering their own names, each defendant will enter the name of a prisoner held at Guantanamo. Father Bill Pickard, a Catholic priest from Pennsylvania, will identify himself as Faruq Ali Ahmed. ‘He cannot do it himself,’ Pickard says, ‘so I am called by my faith, my respect for the rule of law, and my conscience to do it for him.’….”…BS

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