Finally the US supreme court wakes up and stands up against Bush: the US Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration does not have the authority to try terrorism suspects by military tribunal. The bad news is that the ruling does not address detention of terror suspects in general. Currently about 460 inmates, mostly without charge, whom the US suspects of links to al-Qaeda or the Taleban are held at Guantanamo Bay. The ruling is seen as a major blow to President George W Bush. Bush said on Wednesday he was “considering shutting the facility”, and would decide after the court ruled. “I’d like to end Gitmo, like it to be over with,” he said at a European Union summit in Vienna. Most Human Rights watch organizations have said they think the whole way the US is handling the prison camp is in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. This has now been confirmed by the court that said explicitly that the tribunal does violate these treaties. Just take a look at this trailer for an upcoming documentary about three Brittish men who spend months at the Gitmo facility without knowing why they were there. It is an disgrace of monstrous proportions. I can’t wait till Bush is out of the White House.

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