By Carol Rosenberg
The Tribune
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, CUBA — Some women troops at the prison’s secret lockup for former CIA captives have filed gender discrimination complaints against two military judges who are forbidding female guards from handling prisoners to and from legal meetings.
One of the judges, Navy Capt. J.K. Waits, announced the development Monday at the opening of a hearing in the case of Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, accused of committing war crimes as commander of al-Qaida’s Army in Afghanistan after the 2001 U.S. invasion.
The naval officer said one or more unnamed guards had filed a complaint “related to the court’s interim order regarding the accused not being touched by female guards in relation to his movements to meetings with counsel and to sessions of this commission.”
It’s the latest wrinkle in an ongoing tug-of-war over an apparent new assignment of female guards to escort duty moving so-called high value captives to legal appointments from Camp 7, the secret lockup at Guantanamo where the U.S. keeps former CIA captives of the so-called Black Site program in seclusion.
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