U.S. builds for future at Guantanamo (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. builds for future at Guantanamo
Wed Sep 5, 2007 7:36PM EDT

By Jane Sutton

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) -
The U.S. military is building a mobile courtroom complex
on an unused runway at the Guantanamo Bay naval base
and plans to be ready by March to conduct as many as
three terrorism trials at a time.

The $10 million project will add two new courtrooms to
the existing one, which is being fitted with a new
computer projection system to display evidence for the
war crimes tribunals set up to try suspected al Qaeda
operatives held at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba.

"It's projected for an early spring completion," Rear Adm.
Mark Buzby, who took command of the Guantanamo
detention operation in May, told journalists visiting the
base on Wednesday.

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Critics call the tribunals an ad hoc legal system that
follows neither U.S. military nor civilian law, nor the
international laws of war established under various
treaties.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0526877120070905

[Demeter]

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