TV News LIES

Monday, Aug 25th

Last update07:35:24 AM GMT

You are here News Human Rights Lawyers Criticize Quality of Guantanamo Interpreters

Lawyers Criticize Quality of Guantanamo Interpreters

E-mail Print PDF

Something was being lost in interpretation. Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, a Saudi national accused of war crimes and murder for his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was speaking in Arabic. Ralph H. Kohlmann, a Marine colonel and military judge at Guantanamo Bay, was listening to a simultaneous interpretation in English.

A linguist working with Hawsawi's team later estimated that half of what the defendant said was rendered incorrectly by court interpreters and that Hawsawi didn't understand at least 25 percent of what was said in English. 

More...

 

 


Most Recent Related Stories...


Israel has destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in Gaza City: Civil Defence

Destrction in Gaza City 8/24/25Israel has completely destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza...

Eyewitness says American subcontractors at Gaza aid sites fired at Palestinians

GHF fires on PalestiniansSince the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation first began operating nearly three months ago, the U.N. says hundreds...

David Lammy among 21 foreign ministers to condemn plan for illegal West Bank settlement

New illegal settllements approvedDavid Lammy has joined 20 other foreign ministers around the world in condemning Israeli plans to...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody

Abrego Garcia released Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported in March before being brought back to the U.S.,...
 
America's # 1 Enemy
Tee Shirt
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
TVNL Tee Shirt
 
TVNL TOTE BAG
Conserve our Planet
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
Get your 9/11 & Media
Deception Dollars
& Help Support TvNewsLIES.org!
 
The Loaded Deck
The First & the Best!
The Media & Bush Admin Exposed!