BBC (early Wednesday): Key step towards US terror trials

Jack Rabbit

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Wed Dec-31-03 12:47 AM
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BBC (early Wednesday): Key step towards US terror trials

From the BBC Online
Dated Wednesday December 31 02:06 GMT (6:06 pm PST)

Key step towards US terror trials

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has named a former army general to oversee military tribunals for foreign terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
Retired army lawyer John Altenburg will approve charges against the detainees and appoint the members of the military panels that will try them.
About 660 people are being held at the US naval base in Cuba.
Tuesday's appointment is being seen as one of the last major moves before the detainees are brought to trial.

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Bush is a law unto himself and a menace to the international community. The Third Geneva Convention means nothing to him.

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daleo

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Wed Dec-31-03 01:14 AM
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1. Mass graves alert?

Later on they can be blamed on Castro, when that becomes convenient.

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