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THE defence budget approved by US senators includes a plan to reform the controversial military tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay, the Armed Services Committee chairman said. Full Article at NEWS.com.au
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Spanish legislators voted Thursday to change a law that let judges indict Osama bin Laden and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, narrowing its scope to cases with a clear link to this country and yielding to criticism that Spain should not act like a... Full Article at The Seattle Times
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MADRID -- Spanish legislators voted Thursday to change a law that let judges indict Osama bin Laden and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, narrowing its scope to cases with a clear link to this country and yielding to criticism that Spain should not... Full Article at Pakistan News.net
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Friday he would reform and restart the military tribunals he once reviled for Guantanamo Bay detainees, jeopardizing his timetable for closing the prison by January and dismaying many supporters who suggested... Full Article at Miami Herald
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May 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will keep the military tribunal system for trying terrorism suspects held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and expand legal protections for defendants. Full Article at The Daily Source
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We have the capacity ... We have the prisons that can hold them. We have the finest system of justice in the world. Let's use it. Let's not make a new one up.
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I think we ought to leave Guantanamo open ... It's a $200-million, state-of-the-art facility. No one has ever escaped from there. It has courtrooms for the military commissions trials which the president has now - correctly in my view - decided maybe that's a good way to try these terrorists afterall.
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This would liberalize it to some extent ... We'll have to wait and see if it liberalizes it so much they don't work anymore.
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In practice, the military and civilian systems have been converging anyway because military judges have been trying to prove they can be fair, and civilian judges and juries are trying to prove they can be tough
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
