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...Washington Court Backs Gitmo Detainees...
...Court ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention without charges in federal district courts. The 5-4 decision marked the fourth time the court has ruled against Administration attempts to create a separate legal framework for holding and prosecuting Gitmo detainees but prompted Justice Antonin Scalia to warn in a scathing dissent that the nation "will live to regret what the Court has done today...
...Cuba Justice, Gitmo Style With hearings beginning June 5 in the trials of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators, as much attention is being paid to Guantánamo Bay's controversial military-commission system as to the crimes themselves. Critics dismiss the tribunals as too secretive, arguing that evidence obtained through methods like waterboarding should be inadmissible. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule this month on the rights of Gitmo prisoners...
...Naval base at Guantanamo a military court will hear key pre-trial motions in the terrorism case against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the onetime driver of Osama bin Laden. Among the defense witnesses will be Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who resigned in protest last fall as Gitmo's chief prosecutor. His allegation: that top Pentagon officials - who are legally required to remain neutral - have tried to exert political influence on the conduct and outcomes of a whole series of high-profile trials scheduled for later this year...
...contemporary version of Nuremberg, the post-World War Two tribunals that decided the fate of the major surviving Nazi war criminals. But for many critics the proceedings promise further bad publicity for the U.S. on a global scale. A dozen suspected al-Qaeda prisoners are in custody in Gitmo, among a prison population that currently numbers 280. The pace of legal motions is expected to increase in coming weeks, as trials loom for six "high-value" prisoners, including Khaled Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. In February, military prosecutors charged the six with murder and conspiracy...