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Detainee's Trial in Military System Begins Today
Washington Post - Jul 20, 2008
By Jerry Markon GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Nearly seven years after President Bush declared an "extraordinary emergency" that empowered him to bring terrorists before military judges, Osama bin Laden's former driver is scheduled to go on trial Monday in the first test of whether that system can dispense fair and impartial justice. When Salim Ahmed Hamdan, accused of ferrying weapons for al-Qaeda, enters courtroom 01-A in a former aircraft operations center, he will face court proceedings unlike any the United States has seen in decades. They will unfold before a military commission -- the first since the end of World War II -- with a jury of uniformed officers and rules that
Belleville News Democrat - Jul 20, 2008
By CAROL ROSENBERG After a Supreme Court victory and four years of war court hearings, much is known about Osama bin Laden's former driver, who is due to go
Reuters - Jul 20, 2008
(Reuters) - The first trial at the controversial US military war crimes court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is scheduled to start on Monday.
United Press International - Jul 20, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 20 (UPI) -- US military officials Sunday prepared for the first war-crimes trial for a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee.
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