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President's Order to Close Detention Facility Expected Thursday, Military Trials Suspended
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... the chief prosecutor of the Office of Military Commissions to seek a continuance of 120 days for any case that has been referred to the office of military commissions and to cease referring any new cases for prosecution. This morning, military judges hearing the cases of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, and his co-conspirators, as well as a different judge hearing the case of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr, granted the prosecution's motion... Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Terrorism/story?id=6693079...
And so it begins…
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[image] [image] [image] From ABC News: Obama Moves toward Shuttering Gitmo Last night, just hours after he took the oath of office , Obama ordered Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to direct the chief prosecutor of the Office of Military Commissions to seek a continuance of 120 days for any case that has been referred to the office of military commissions and to cease referring any new cases for prosecution. This morning, military judges hearing the cases of Khalid Sheik Mohammed , the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, and his co-conspirators, as well as a different judge hearing the case of Canadian ...
Envoy Tasked With Shutting Down Gitmo
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Previous | Main Envoy Tasked With Shutting Down Gitmo March 12, 2009 2:53 PM Radia ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: It's been said that the challenge of closing down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility would be a full time job. Well, now it is. Ambassador Daniel Fried, a veteran diplomat, has been given the difficult task of finding other countries to take in the remaining detainees at Guantanamo so that the facility can be shut down in accordance with President Obama's directions given shortly after taking office in January."In order to carry out President Obama’s commitment to close the detention facility at ...
