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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (425757)	7/11/2003 3:14:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<font color=blue>Instead of discussing my psychological response to your threat......er, I mean your obervation, let's discuss what's happening to the relationship with our only real ally? Are the Brits turning against us as well?<font color=black> ************************************************************ Keep to the law, Blair tells Bush Nicholas Watt, political correspondent Thursday July 10, 2003 The Guardian Tony Blair gave George Bush a strong warning yesterday that he must follow proper legal procedures in the military trial of two Britons held at Guantanamo Bay who face the prospect of a death sentence. As 163 MPs signed a motion calling for the men to be repatriated, the prime minister made his unease clear when he demanded that the US should observe the "proper canons of law". "I quite agree that any commission or tribunal that tries these men must be one conducted in accordance with proper canons of law so that a fair trial is both taking place and seen to take place," he said as he faced intense questions in the Commons. The prime minister issued his rare rebuke to Mr Bush in response to the president's formal ruling last week that Moazzam Begg and Feroz Abbasi should face a military trial at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Mr Abbasi, 23, from Croydon, south London, and Mr Begg, 35, from Sparkbrook, Birmingham, have been held for 18 months without charge or access to a lawyer. MPs of all parties are horrified by the ruling because military officers will serve as prosecution, judge and jury. Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, said the two men faced a trial by a "kangaroo court presided over by the Pentagon". Mr Blair insisted that he was putting pressure on the US authorities to ensure that any charges against the two men should be proved "with proper rules of evidence". "We... are making active representations to them," he said. His remarks were made after a number of demands that he should to step up the pressure on Washington. David Winnick, the Labour MP for Walsall North, said: "Put your foot down, prime minister."