Pentagon appeals against Guantanamo ruling

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Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has decided to ask U.S. military judges to reconsider their decision to dismiss charges against two terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman said on Friday.

On Monday, the judges said they lacked jurisdiction to try the suspects, in the latest blow to the Bush administration's plans to prosecute inmates at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba.

"The Department has made a decision to file a motion for reconsideration to the the military commission," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

The suspects in the two cases are Omar Khadr, a Canadian captured in a firefight in Afghanistan at age 15, and Yemeni national Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who is accused of driving and guarding Osama bin Laden.

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