Pentagon preparing more Guantánamo prosecutions

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Mon, Apr. 24, 2006
Pentagon preparing more Guantánamo prosecutions
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The Pentagon is preparing prosecutions against about 25 more captives at the prison for suspected terrorists here, some with recommendations that they be executed if convicted, the chief prosecutor said Monday.

Air Force Col. Moe Davis would not characterize the new candidates for President Bush's war crimes trials, called Military Commissions, but said some would be accused of actively participating in killing U.S. soldiers or their coalition allies in Afghanistan.

So far, 10 of the 490 or so captives at this offshore detention and interrogation center are charged before the first exclusively U.S. war crimes tribunals since World War II. None face capital punishment if convicted.

Davis made his remarks to reporters on the eve of resumption of the commissions, whose constitutionality are under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. A decision is expected in late June.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14418772.htm

[BR_Parkway]

1. "President Bush's war crimes trials" now there's a phrase I can sink

my teeth into.

[saigon68]

3. Too bad the chimp is on the sidelines

[leesa]

2. 10 are charged...after how many years? No successful prosecutions

anywhere in this mess.