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Rumsfeld: War crimes trials should proceed
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- War crimes trials against two detainees at Guantanamo Bay should proceed as soon as possible, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.
The government was given the go-ahead last week by a federal appeals court regarding the trials of Salim Ahmed Hamdan and David Hicks. The decision reversed a ruling last November that halted the trials as violations of the U.S. Constitution and international law.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050719-14005900-bc-us-guantanamo.xml=========================================================================================================
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Rumsfeld Says Progress Being Made in Iraq
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
Thursday, July 21, 2005
(07-21) 07:27 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Insurgents and foreign fighters remain effective in Iraq even though progress is being made against them, says Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Previewing a late report to Congress that was due last week, Rumsfeld said Wednesday information about the readiness and performance of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces — one of the main measures of progress — would be included in a classified annex to the report but not made public.
"The information we're getting is in large measure from the Iraqi security forces," he said. "It's their information. It's not for us to tell the other side, the enemy, the terrorists, that this Iraqi unit has this capability and that Iraqi unit has this capability." He said it would be "mindless" to publish information about the combat readiness of Iraqi security forces that would reveal their strengths and weaknesses.
Speaking at the same news conference, Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon's unwillingness to publicly release that information does not mean Congress is kept in the dark.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/21/national/w072752D45.DTL