Gitmo Tribunals May Resume in Early '07 (AP)

Gitmo Tribunals May Resume in Early '07


Wednesday September 6, 2006 8:46 PM

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Military tribunals could resume at Guantanamo Bay
as soon as early 2007 if Congress approves new legislation for trials, the U.S.
chief prosecutor for detainees at the base said Wednesday.

The Department of Defense would have three months after passage of the legislation
to come up with new rules for the tribunals, which were struck down by the Supreme
Court in June, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, told The Associated Press.

"I'm expecting we will be back in court around the first of the year," the chief
prosecutor said in an interview from his office in Arlington, Va.

Davis said that the military would probably prosecute about 75 detainees, including
the 14 identified by President Bush as "key terrorist leaders" who were recently
transferred to the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba.

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